Ancient Empires

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    • Ancient Empires
    • By: History Nerds
    • Narrated by: Peter Ackerman
    • Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-24
    • Language: English
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    • Embark on an epic journey through the windswept expanses of Central Asia with The Mongol Empire, a gripping chronicle that unveils the awe-inspiring rise and far-reaching legacy of the Mongol Empire.

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    • The Rise and Fall of An Empire
    • By: Simon Baker
    • Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
    • Length: 17 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-16
    • Language: English
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    • This is the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known. Simon Baker charts the rise and fall of the world's first superpower, focusing on six momentous turning points....

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    • The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire
    • By: Eckart Frahm
    • Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
    • Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-23
    • Language: English
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    • At its height in 660 BCE, the kingdom of Assyria stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. It was the first empire the world had ever seen. Here, historian Eckart Frahm tells the epic story of Assyria and its formative role in global history....

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    • The Rise and Fall of the Mithridatic World
    • By: Duane W. Roller
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 02-22-22
    • Language: English
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    • What is commonly called the kingdom of Pontos flourished for over 200 years in the coastal regions of the Black Sea. At its peak in the early first century BC, it included much of the southern, eastern, and northern littoral, becoming one of the most important Hellenistic dynasties....

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    • The Death of Alexander the Great and the Bloody Fight for His Empire
    • By: James S. Romm
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 205 ratings
    • James Romm, professor of classics at Bard College, brings to life the cutthroat competition and the struggle for control of the Greek world's greatest empire....

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    • And the End of Civilization
    • By: Bryan Ward-Perkins
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • In The Fall of Rome, eminent historian Bryan Ward-Perkins argues that the "peaceful" theory of Rome's "transformation" is badly in error. Indeed, he sees the fall of Rome as a time of horror and dislocation that destroyed a great civilization....

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    • The Ancient World Economy and the Empires of Parthia, Central Asia and Han China
    • By: Raoul McLaughlin
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 145 ratings
    • The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes investigates the trade routes between Rome and the powerful empires of inner Asia, including the Parthian regime which ruled ancient Persia (Iran)....

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    • The Origins of Ancient Civilizations and Mystery Traditions Throughout the Ages
    • By: Marco M. Vigato
    • Narrated by: Micah Hanks
    • Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • Establishing the historical and geological reality of Atlantis stretching all the way back to 432,000 BCE, Marco Vigato traces the course of Atlantean civilization through its three empires, revealing how civilization rose and fell several times over this lengthy span of time....

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    • From Julius Caesar to Justinian: Six Hundred Years of Peace and War, Volume 1
    • By: John Matthews
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 24 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • A wide-ranging survey of the history of the Roman Empire - from its establishment to decline and beyond. Empire of the Romans, from Julius Caesar to Justinian provides a sweeping historical survey of the Roman empire....

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    • From Constantine to the Destruction of Roman Italy
    • By: Michael Kulikowski
    • Narrated by: Simon Shepherd
    • Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • The Tragedy of Empire begins in the late fourth century with the reign of Julian, the last non-Christian Roman emperor, and takes listeners to the final years of the Western Roman Empire at the end of the sixth century....

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    • By: Lionel Casson
    • Narrated by: John Glouchevitch
    • Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • Lionel Casson paints a vivid portrait of life in ancient Rome during the empire's greatest period, the first and second centuries AD....

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    • From the Birth of Sumerian Civilization to the Fall of the Roman Empire
    • By: Norman F. Cantor
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Best-selling author Norman Cantor delivers this compact but magisterial survey of the ancient world - from the birth of Sumerian civilization around 3500 BC in the Tigris-Euphrates valley (present-day Iraq) to the fall of the Roman Empire in AD 476....

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    • The Making of the World's Greatest Empire
    • By: Anthony Everitt
    • Narrated by: Clive Chafer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 495 ratings
    • Everitt fashions the story of Rome's rise to glory into an erudite book filled with lasting lessons for our time....

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    • The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
    • By: Tom Holland
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,404 ratings
    • The story of how their citizens took on the Great King of Persia, and thereby saved not only themselves, but Western civilization as well, is as heart-stopping and fateful as any episode in history....

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    • Life of a Colossus
    • By: Adrian Goldsworthy
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 24 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,921 ratings
    • In this landmark biography, Goldsworthy examines Caesar as a military leader, as well as his other roles, and places....

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    • Constantine's Empire, Book 1
    • By: Bryan Litfin
    • Narrated by: Michael Braun
    • Series: Constantine's Empire, Book 1
    • Length: 21 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • It is AD 312. Rome teeters on the brink of war. Constantine's army is on the move. On the Rhine frontier, Brandulf Rex, a pagan Germanic barbarian, joins the Roman army as a spy and special-forces operative....

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    • Attila the Hun & the Fall of Rome
    • By: Christopher Kelly
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • We see Attila as both a master warrior and an astute strategist whose rule was threatening but whose sudden loss of power was even more so. The End of Empire is an original exploration of the clash between empire and barbarity in the ancient world, full of contemporary resonance....

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