003: HIS101: "Time to Burn Some Goats" Edition: Early Religion

09/17/17 • 30 min

Episode Notes

Settled peoples face a lot of problems. Who is going to protect them from floods, hurricanes and drought? That's right, a group of super-humans living up on a mountain who are noble, selfish, honorable, disloyal and drunk - a lot. It is "Lets Make a Deal" and the deal is three goats for not dying. Let's see how it turns out.

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002: HIS101: Time to Settle Down: Intro to Settled Ppl

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Time to settle down edition. Tired of walking from place to place looking for food? What if, we could find a nice place in the 'Burbs, with a little bit of space, and just a hint of approaching disaster? Let's do it! History will never be the same. Men go to work, women lose their rights, but everyone starves just a little bit less. And then we get lit(erate) and build big things.

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004: HIS101: Who Ya Gonna Call? Early Government

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Government was the solution. For early settled people government kept them from being killed by nomads, other settled people and each other. It figured out how to build walls, make laws, and solve the Problem of the Commons.

Music by Dexter Britain ("The War in my Head" & "Together in the Empty") and Krackatoa ("Opus Delorean")