Unemployed_History_Dept

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History for the professionally unoccupied and incurably curious. We wander through the stranger corridors of the past — fortunes built and buried, empires at their zenith, wars fought for more than glory, ingenious businesses, powerful institutions, remarkable lives, and the occasional historical mystery worth losing an afternoon to. Wealth often leads the story; sometimes, it merely leaves fingerprints on it. Long-form history for people with nowhere urgent to be and far too much curiosity to waste.

1:59:41

How Did Egypt Afford to Build the Great Pyramid?

Unemployed_History_Dept · 17 views · Streamed 20 hours ago

46:04

How European Banks Took Control of the Ottoman Empire's Money

Unemployed_History_Dept · 45 views · 1 day ago

48:37

How Did Egypt Afford to Build the Great Pyramid?

Unemployed_History_Dept · 112 views · 5 days ago

57:21

How Venice Turned a Swamp Into History’s Richest Trading Empire

Unemployed_History_Dept · 221 views · 8 days ago

48:39

Alexander the Great: How Persia Paid for Its Own Conquest

Unemployed_History_Dept · 230 views · 13 days ago

38:47

Nader Shah: How One Conquest Drained the Mughal Empire’s Wealth

Unemployed_History_Dept · 100 views · 1 month ago

34:16

How the Knights Templar Built a Fortune That Kings Depended On

Unemployed_History_Dept · 734 views · 1 month ago

53:46

How Africans and Europeans Built Fortunes From the Atlantic Slave Trade

Unemployed_History_Dept · 492 views · 1 month ago

1:06:28

How Napoleon Financed His Wars and Built an Empire

Unemployed_History_Dept · 88 views · 2 weeks ago

1:09:40

Knights Templar: Who Took Their Wealth After They Were Destroyed?

Unemployed_History_Dept · 179 views · 2 weeks ago

55:00

The Most Expensive War? World War I

Unemployed_History_Dept · 154 views · 3 weeks ago

1:47:01

Who Could Buy the World? Mansa Musa vs. The Rothschilds

Unemployed_History_Dept · 469 views · 1 month ago

47:31

King Solomon: How the Richest King in History Built His Wealth.

Unemployed_History_Dept · 72 views · 4 weeks ago

34:33

How Rome’s Richest General Made His Fortune—and Lost Everything

Unemployed_History_Dept · 856 views · 1 month ago

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