Rob talks about all the little bits and pieces that we couldn't fit into the episodes, as well as some of our mistakes and some points of confusion (don't worry metric users, we got you next time)<...
2019-11-22 20:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Queen Nefertiti's husband Akhenaten was a bit of an unusual pharaoh. So unusual his successors tried (and almost successfully!) erased him from history. What exactly did Akhenaten do that warranted...
2019-11-15 18:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Early flight started as a utopian dream but quickly became the military's top priority: first as reconnaissance vehicles, and then as weapons in their own right. After WW1, the threat of German air...
2019-11-13 18:23:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Today is the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, so we've put together a special episode for you all examining what the Berlin Wall was, why it was put up, and how a clerical oversight...
2019-11-09 16:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post
After Angkor fell into decline it was "discovered" by European travelers who declared it a lost and ancient city (it was neither of those things) and came up with, shall we say, inventive explanati...
2019-11-07 18:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Like it says on the tin, this is the last week to order the Extra History Collectible Cards. After Wednesday, November 13 they will be gone faster than Robert Knight from Britain.<...
2019-11-06 20:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
To tell the tale of Space Travel, we have to launch ourselves through history and talk about two of the biggest revolutions to shake up the face of the Earth: The Scientific Revolution & The In...
2019-11-06 17:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
How does a thriving metropolis become a ruin? We aren't exactly positive, but with the efforts of archaeologists and climatologists, we can take a few educated guesses. Shifting economics, raids fr...
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2019-11-01 07:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
We are doing our monthly Q&A video livestream with some of the Extra Credits crew (it's Matt, Rob & Joe on board!) on Sunday, October 27 starting at 5pm Pacific time (GMT - 7). It wil...
2019-10-27 22:40:23 +0000 UTC View PostWhat series would you like us to air on Extra History? Cast your vote(s) below and let us know!
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2019-10-26 01:58:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Each one of these temples gets grander and more beautiful than the last! Today we're talking about Jayavarman VII the Great, and his project to transform Angkor into a more defensible city after it...
2019-10-25 17:30:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Let's take a little tour around Suryavarman II crowning achievement, the temple that took only 33 years to complete, while Europeans were taking centuries to build their cathedrals. With a tw...
2019-10-18 17:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We're laying the foundations for a city that was built to resemble the home of the gods, made use of hand-cut reservoirs that are still the largest in the world today, and occupying as much space a...
2019-10-11 17:30:59 +0000 UTC View Post
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2019-10-01 07:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The 1830s were an exciting time for science. All throughout Europe, there was a great movement to explore, map, and classify the world. And it was this expanding world that young Charles Darwin gra...
2019-09-27 14:30:59 +0000 UTC View Post
We are doing our monthly Q&A video livestream with some of the Extra Credits crew (it's Matt and Rob on board!) on Sunday, September 29 starting at 5pm Pacific time (GMT - 7). It will be ...
2019-09-25 19:35:58 +0000 UTC View Post
The invention of anesthesia changed dentistry forever, but the implementation was not painless (ironically). Between nitrous oxide, ether, and even cocaine, people tried a lot of different methods ...
2019-09-25 14:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Atahualpa vs. Francisco Pizarro. The Incas had never seen horses before, and it wasn't long before the Spanish had captured Atahualpa as a hostage for gold and silver. But Atahualpa had a plan. He ...
2019-09-20 03:59:30 +0000 UTC View PostWe know how much the community has been looking forward to a physical, hold-in-your-hands edition of the Extra History cards we've been producing since the start of 2018. Therefore, we are ecstatic...
2019-09-19 23:06:48 +0000 UTC View Post
The first of a two part series, we're drilling into the root of one of the oldest medical practices in the world: Dentistry! Hope you're ready to hear about tooth worms, demons, and magic. 2019-09-18 17:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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2019-09-13 12:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Disease--likely, smallpox or measles--had arrived in the Inca empire, and it was ruthless. Two of the (now dead) Emperor Huayna Capac's sons, Atahualpa and Huáscar, decided that a civil war over w...
2019-09-12 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
To understand daily life in the Inca Empire, we travel from Cusco to Quito (located in modern-day Ecuador), where Thupa Inca wanted to establish a second capital city. From efficiently designed wor...
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2019-09-01 07:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Pachacuti, the Earth-Shaker, was the ninth leader of the Inca and the one who took the ambitions of the city of Cusco into an all-out military campaign to expand the empire--alongside bribing and e...
2019-08-29 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post