Kings of Kings III

国王国王三世

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History

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2016-08-08

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If this were a movie, the events and cameos would be too numerous and star-studded to mention. It includes Xerxes, Spartans, Immortals, Alexander the Great, scythed chariots, and several of the greatest battles in history.

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  • I am a notoriously bad topic picker and I traditionally pick something that I think I can do much more quickly than I can, and then when I get into the middle of it, I feel compelled to do the topic justice and we end up traditionally with a very long series of shows.

  • Well, what you're about to hear is the equivalent of like a double album by a music band or something.

  • We are essentially giving you parts three and four of what probably should have been, realistically speaking, a four part series on the achaemenid persian empire with an obvious focus on their wars with the Greeks and the Macedonians.

  • If you missed parts one and two, you probably want to catch those before you catch this one.

  • But theres so much military history in this one because I knew id be crucified if we didnt go into loving detail about what amounts to several of the best battles in ancient military history.

  • So we do that and we give you what is probably twice the length of what a good hardcore history show should be.

  • So savor it, let it last, and hopefully it doesn't become like one of those double albums I grew up with where you listen to it and you think, God, they could have cut half that thing and just put out one really good single album.

  • The way I look at it though, this is one of the great topics in all world history.

  • And if anything, it probably merited more attention than I gave it.

  • But as I told you, I'm a terrible topic picker and I'm always trying to recover after I make my poor choice.

  • So without further ado, part three and really part four.

  • Also the final installment of our series on the great kings of the ancient achaemenid persian empire.

  • Kings of Kings Part 3 December 7 its history 1941.

  • A date which will live in infamy.

  • The events thats one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

  • From this time and place, I take pride in the words ish bin ein dialina.

  • Mister Gorbachev, the drama tear down this wall.