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Dec 22
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Vol 4 Ep 98 - SUMMARY - The Medieval Wor...

CHRIS HASLER
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1000 - 1299 - From shattered empires to rising ideas, this episode traces a world in motion. Across continents, scholars, warriors and kings reshape faith, power and knowledge, while distant societies unknowingly edge toward collision. This is an age of transformation — where printing presses, crusades and conquests quietly lay the foundations of the modern world.


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