Chris Hasler
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It makes global chronology tangible by keeping archaeological evidence, regional connections and unresolved questions in the same frame.
Chris Hasler builds a world history through numbered volumes, keeping chronology visible while giving regional societies room to come into focus.
Cahokia gatecrashes your medieval Europe syllabus, and your mental map gets a welcome expansion.
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A reflective reset that revisits Volume 4 and points toward Volume 5.
Chris Hasler opens the first broadcast of 2026 with a new-year debrief that folds in the end of Volume 4, the odd fact of stopping at 99 numbered episodes, and the larger count once commissioned specials are included.
A broad medieval survey connects Song innovation, shifting empires, and Chinggis Khan's world-changing conquests.
The episode treats the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries as a period of quickening change, ranging from Byzantium's losses to the Normans and Seljuks to Islamic philosophy, Indian empires, Song innovation, and the rise of the samurai in Japan.
A candid reset on five quiet months, recent releases, and the practical work of keeping a history podcast going.
After five quiet months, this debrief turns the pause itself into the story, looking back over six recent releases and explaining why the podcast has been appearing less often.
An Inca history that favors roads, labor, and statecraft over the usual cliché.
This episode treats the Inca as a political and administrative power rather than a gold-obsessed mystery, moving cleanly from early Andean agriculture and Chavin de Huantar to a more centralized imperial order.
A candid Volume 4 debrief on listener interest, global history, and the podcast's practical use of AI.
Volume 4 ends in debrief mode, using the podcast's own catalogue as part of the story. Chris Hasler looks back at which of its roughly hundred episodes drew interest, then points Volume 5 toward a wider frame.
Tula's warriors, obsidian swords, and unsettled chronology make the Toltecs a compelling historical puzzle.
The Toltecs come through as a culture shaped as much by archaeology as by memory, especially traditions preserved through the Aztecs, who treated them as noble ancestors.
A clear account of how Sahel geography and trade helped Mali become an empire.
Mali's rise is framed through the Sahel's delicate geography, where desert, savannah, rivers, rain, farming, and trade all shape the chances of survival.
A clear, grounded account of Great Zimbabwe's reach, rise, and decline.
Great Zimbabwe comes across as a measured overview of a Shona kingdom on the fertile plateau of modern day Zimbabwe, built in monumental stone without mortar and linked to long-distance trade.
Tracy Wilson and Holly Frey narrate overlooked history, from Courbet's realism to IUD regulation.
History, remembered by witnesses.
Pop culture with the historical wiring exposed.
History of the World podcast Vol 4 Ep 84 examines Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, through the Moai statues, the Hotu Matua origin legend, and the Dutch arrival under Jakob Rocheveen in 1722.
The series turns to the 9th, 10th, and 11th centuries, when the medieval world shifts under pressure from migration, fragmentation, conversion, and state-building.
The episode opens with the scale and oddity of North America’s earthen monuments.
The History of the World podcast episode on the Mali Empire links the Sahel’s rainfall, the Niger River, and trans-Saharan trade to the rise of medieval West African power.
Chris Hasler journeys back to pre-Columbian North America.
Great Zimbabwe is presented as a stone city built by the Shona on the fertile plateau of modern Zimbabwe.
Chris Hasler opens the last Debrief of 2024 by explaining how the programme shifted from an exclusive Illuminati-only broadcast to something everyone can hear.
The magazine episode gathers earlier material under the letter E.
The episode starts by asking listeners to set aside familiar assumptions about ancient America.
History of the World podcast, Vol 4 Ep 83, focuses on the Maori of New Zealand and places their origins about 700 to 800 years ago with Polynesian settlers.
History of the World podcast episode 85, “The Tiwanaku, the Wari and the Chimo,” maps the pre-Columbian societies of the Andes from Chavin de Huantar to Chan Chan.
It traces the Austronesian expansion across the islands beyond mainland Asia.
History of the World podcast episode 89 follows the Mexica from Aztlan and Chicamostoc to Tenochtitlan on Lake Texcoco, including the 1325 eagle-on-cactus sign that still appears on the Mexican flag.
Chris Hasler uses this Volume 4 debrief to compare download patterns, including 22,000-plus listens for episode one and strong interest in episode six on the Byzantine Empire.
History of the World podcast Vol 4 Ep 87, “The Toltecs,” focuses on a Mesoamerican culture known mainly through archaeology, Aztec oral tradition, and the site of Tula.
History of the World podcast episode 88 focuses on the post-classic Maya after the fall of Calakmul, Copan, Palenque, and Tikal.
History of the World podcast Vol 4 Ep 94, 'Ifẹ and Benin,' ties Yoruba origin stories to the rise of Ile-Ife and the Kingdom of Benin in southwest Nigeria.
History of the World podcast episode 96 maps the medieval world from the year 600, when the Western Roman Empire had already fallen and Byzantium still held Constantinople.
The magazine episode gathers earlier material under the letter F.
The show revisits episode 85 and places Tiwanaku, the Wari, and the Chimo between the Mochi and Nazca on one side and the Inca on the other.
The episode follows Champa as a maritime coalition in what is now southern Vietnam.
Chris Hasler opens the debrief by apologising for the gap since the last one.
The episode moves into the 14th century.
Volume 4 closes on a funny bit of accounting.
Old powers strain.
Five months have passed since the last debrief, and Chris Hasler comes back with a plainspoken catch-up.
The Incas were not just a mystery to solve.
The host debriefs his episode on Maori culture, connecting it to a viral protest in New Zealand Parliament that occurred the same week.
The host explores the Austronesian expansion, a theory suggesting ancient peoples migrated from Taiwan across the Pacific.
This debrief episode reflects on the previous discussion about the medieval Champa society in South Vietnam, comparing it to the Khmer Empire and exploring the cultural divide between Indianized and Sinicized regions of Southeast Asia.