Sometimes it's difficult to imagine the world before our ‘time’. How did people complete tasks that we now consider simple, such as checking the date and time without a phone in their pocket or even a watch on their wrist?
In order to understand the present and why things are the way that they are we often look to the past. Join John, Felix and their guest Blacoe as they discuss the fascinating and often complex bygones that have shaped the world into the one that we live in today.
References:
1. The Universal History of Numbers: From prehistory to the invention of the computer. (John Wiley and Sons)
2. Traditional Festivals: A Multicultural Encylcopedia (Christian Roy)
3. A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (William Smith)
4. Time in Roman Religion: One Thousand Years of Religious History (Gary Forsythe)
5. The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History (Tonio Andrade)
