- A History of the World, According to War
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- Episode Roadmap
This is intended to be a roadmap of the episodes of the podcast. As episodes are recorded and published, the links will be updated here. As the podcast progresses, expect this list to change over time, adding future episodes to the roadmap, and potentially circling back to an earlier time period to do a deeper dive, or to cover a conflict that we missed.
Ancient Wars
Episode 2: The Battle of Kadesh (1274 BC)
Episode 3: The Trojan War (circa 1184 BC)
Greco-Persian Wars (499 BC–449 BC)
Episode 4 - The Battle of Marathon (490 BC)
Episode 6 - The Battle of Salamis (480 BC)
Battle of Plataea (479 BC)
Peloponnesian War (431 BC-404 BC)
Conquests of Alexander the Great (334 BC-323 BC)
Battle of Gaugamela (331 BC)
Punic Wars (264 BC-146 BC)
Unification of China
Battle of Muye (1046 BC)
Battle of Changping (260 BC)
Qin's wars of unification (230 BC–221 BC)
Roman Wars
Gallic Wars (58 BC-50 BC)
Roman Civil Wars (49 BCE-31 BCE)
Battle of Actium (31 BC)
Roman conquest of Britain (43 AD-84 AD)
Battle of Adrianople (378 CE)
Middle Ages Wars
Battle of Tours (732 AD)
Viking invasions of Europe (793 AD-1066 AD)
Battle of Hastings (1066 AD)
Crusades (1096 AD-1270 AD)
Mongol Invasion
Battle of Badger Pass (1211 AD)
Battle of Kalka River (1223 AD)
Battle of Samara Bend (1223 AD)
Battle of Mohi (1241 AD)
Battle of Ain Jalut (1260 AD)
Battle of Xiangyang (1268-1273 AD)
Hundred Years' War (1337 AD-1453 AD)
Ottoman Wars in Europe (1360 AD-1699 AD)
Early Modern Wars
Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519 AD-1521 AD)
Spanish Conquest of the Inca Empire (1531 AD-1533 AD)
Thirty Years' War (1618 AD-1648 AD)
English Civil War (1642 AD-1651 AD)
American Revolutionary War (1775 AD-1783 AD)
Napoleonic Wars (1803 AD-1815 AD)
19th Century Wars
Crimean War (1853 - 1856 AD)
American Civil War (1861 AD-1865 AD)
Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)
Anglo-Zulu Wars
Causes and Background of the Anglo-Zulu War
Battle of Isandlwana (January 22, 1879)
Battle of Rorke's Drift (January 22-23, 1879)
Later Campaigns and the End of the War
Boer Wars (1880-1881, 1899-1902)
Early 20th Century Wars
Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
World War I (1914 AD-1918 AD)
Sino-Japanese Wars
World War II (1939 AD-1945 AD)
Late 20th Century Wars
Korean War (1950 AD-1953 AD)
Vietnam War (1955 AD-1975 AD)
Arab-Israeli Wars
Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988)
Falklands War (1982)
Gulf War (1990 AD-1991 AD)
Yugoslav Wars (1991-2001)
21st Century Wars
War on Terror (2001-present)
War in Afghanistan (2001-present)
Iraq War (2003 AD-2011 AD)
Syrian Civil War (2011 AD-ongoing)
Russian invasion of Ukraine (2014 AD-ongoing)