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10.10 - Sengoku Pt 3 - Tokugawa Ieyasu
October 13, 2026Tokugawa Ieyasu was a powerful daimyo, who served both Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi loyally, and patiently, all the while growing in power. When those two were gone, however, it was his chance, and his turn, to rule Japan. He…
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10.9 - Sengoku Pt 2 - Toyotomi Hideyoshi
September 30, 2026The Sengoku period’s disorder seemed to have ended as Oda Nobunaga unified much of Japan. But his murder threatened to return the country back into civil war, until Toyotomi Hideyoshi stepped in and took control, creating an even more…
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10.8 - Sengoku Pt 1 - Oda Nobunaga
September 15, 2026The end of the Sengoku Jidai, or Warring States Period, in Japan, was ushered in by Oda Nobunaga. Nobunaga pulled much of Honshu under his rule, and began the transition to united rule that would lead to the Tokugawa Shogunate.
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10.7 - Jogaila and Vytautys Pt 2
July 29, 2026This episode, we return to eastern Europe to finish up the stories of Jogaila, who had become king of Poland, and Vytautas, who ruled as the Grand Duke of Lithuania. Theoretically Jogaila was Vytautas’s sovereign, and although at times it…
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10.6 - Jogaila and Vytautas Pt 1
July 14, 2026For the next two episodes, we’ll look at Jogaila and Vytautas, two men who helped shaped eastern Europe for centuries to come. Together, they paved a path that would join a rapidly growing Lithuania with Poland, push back threats from the…
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10.5 - Amadeus VI of Savoy
June 15, 2026Count Amadeus VI of Savoy was from a small mountain county of the Holy Roman Empire in the western Alps, and helped turn it into what would eventually be one of the most important states in early modern Europe.
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10.4 - Rajendra Chola
May 27, 2026Rajendra I, Emperor of the Chola, ruled southern India in the 11th century. Rajendra’s father expanded the Chola empire to become the dominant power in southern India, and Rajendra grew it well beyond that, to become the dominant power…
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10.3 - The Attalids Pt 2 - Eumenes II
May 12, 2026Eumenes II brought the Kingdom of Pergamon to its greatest height, and helped make the city into something that would be influential for centuries. He did what he had to do to keep his kingdom strong and independent, but the price he paid…
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10.2 - The Attalids Pt 1, Attalus I
April 29, 2026Attalus led Pergamon in the latter half of the 3rd century BC, as it grew from a small city to a major player in the Mediterranean in the span of a couple of generations. They took on the most powerful Hellenistic Kingdoms of the day…
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10.1 - Isar Damu of Ebla
April 14, 2026Isar Samy was king of Ebla during its golden age, the 24th century BC. Ebla ruled a kingdom in northwest Syria that traded with Egypt, Sumer, and beyond, and manage to preserve a collection of some of the oldest written texts ever found.
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9.10 - Turenne
February 20, 2024Turenne was a major figure in France during the golden age of the Ancien Regime. Napoleon said his “audacity grew with years and experience” as some of his greatest victories were when he was in his mid-60s. He was a great general in an…
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9.9 - Hohenstaufen Pt 3 - Frederick II
February 7, 2024Frederick II was the grandson of Barbarossa and of Roger the Great of Sicily. He inherited kingdoms from both lineages, and then lost and regained them both. He wound up ruling a vast territory and at least in some of his lands, began…
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The podcast focuses on the lives and times of great historical figures that have mostly fallen through the cracks of our collective memories. We may have heard of these people, but they don't get the attention that some do. Here, they get their due. http://almostforgotten.squarespace.com on Twitter: @thealmostforgot