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History Unbound
Jump into world history with a bird's eye view of the human story. Your host, Dr. Scott Swartsfager, uses his PhD in history and years of teaching to connect the world across time. Too often historians focus on names and dates rather than the juicy story of how we came to be who we are today. History should never be boring because it’s our story! Each week he unfolds another chapter in the history of the world from a bird’s-eye view. This history is engaging, interesting, and relevant. This is the history you want to know, not what you were forced to learn. This is History Unbound.
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History Unbound
Episode 16: Roman Religion - How Christianity Conquered the West
We're still in the Roman Empire, but today we're looking at the religions of Rome. It's the Greek religion repackaged, but it's also uniquely Roman with religion on every level of society, and the emperor as the supreme religious leader. Then along comes a tiny offshoot of Judaism that is bound to fail. A fledgling religion that comes to be known as Christianity. How much change can one Jewish carpenter from Nazareth make, anyway, compared to the might of Rome? Listen and find out!