History · Government

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism

by Thomas Preston Floyd

The goal of this project is to document the history of humanity by documenting all of humanity’s attempts to defeat it’s greatest foe. Itself. This is not going to be a straightforward documentation of kings fighting and destroying each other, though there will be many mentions and examples of that. This will attempt to explain our subjects from the ground up. The common foot soldiers to the leaders at their head. Their strategies, tactics, weapons, and technologies. Their triumphs and tragedies. Their lives and their deaths. What they fought for and why. What motivated them. What drove them.

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This 32-minute episode of 'Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism' examines the Bronze Age transition in weaponry and armor. The host covers the metallurgical properties of bronze and brass, explaining how these materials enabled new weapon designs. The episode focuses on the sword as a major innovation of the bronze…

Worth it if you want a quick, accessible introduction to Bronze Age weapons and armor without expecting scholarly depth or narrative flair.

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