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Bedtime Histories

Bedtime Histories

Di: Pieter Talboom
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Welcome to Bedtime Histories 🌙

Immerse yourself in the epic sweep of human civilization with long-form historical narratives designed for deep sleep and deep learning. Each video offers around an hour of carefully researched content, expertly narrated to guide you through the rise and fall of empires, the lives of legendary figures, and the pivotal moments that shaped our world.

Perfect for:

  • Falling asleep to engaging, educational content
  • Background listening during work or study
  • Deep dives into historical topics you've always wanted to explore

Current Series: Starting with the ancient world - from the founding of Rome to the twilight of Byzantium, we're exploring the classical civilizations that built the foundations of Western culture.

New videos weekly featuring meticulously researched history, professional narration, and a classical aesthetic that honors the subjects we cover.

Subscribe for your nightly journey through time. 🏛️✨

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Pieter Talboom
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  • The Aztec Empire
    May 27 2026

    From a band of landless wanderers chasing an eagle's prophecy across the northern deserts, to the largest and wealthiest empire the Americas had ever seen — and the ruins of it unearthed beneath a modern megacity. This is the story of the Aztecs, the Mexica who raised Tenochtitlan from a swampy island to rule a world of nearly four hundred cities, until smallpox and steel brought it down in two years.

    Perfect for relaxing, sleeping, or learning while you unwind. Thoroughly researched, emphasis on factual accuracy.

    🦅 What's covered:

    • The migration from Aztlan and the prophecy of the eagle and the serpent
    • The founding of Tenochtitlan on a swampy island in 1325
    • Years as mercenaries and vassals under the Tepanec empire
    • Itzcoatl, the Tepanec War, and the burning of the old histories
    • The Triple Alliance and the birth of an imperial war machine
    • Moctezuma I, the tribute system, and the great aqueduct of Tenochtitlan
    • The Sun Stone and the Aztec vision of the Fifth Sun — a world destined to end in earthquakes
    • Ahuitzotl's conquests and the empire at its height under Moctezuma II
    • The omens, the floating mountains, and the arrival of Cortés
    • The Tlaxcalan alliance and the meeting on the great causeway
    • La Noche Triste, the smallpox catastrophe, and the eighty-day siege that ended the empire in 1521
    • The buried Sun Stone, the Templo Mayor unearthed, and the eagle that became a nation's flag

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    #Aztecs #History #Documentary #Tenochtitlan #Mesoamerica #Moctezuma #Cortes #Sleep #AncientHistory

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    56 min
  • Medieval Japan: The Age of the Samurai
    May 5 2026

    From silk pavilions and blossom-viewing in the Heian court to a peasant-born warlord uniting the realm with arquebuses and ash. This is the story of medieval Japan — seven centuries of betrayal, civil war, and the rise and fall of the samurai.

    Perfect for relaxing, sleeping, or learning while you unwind. Thoroughly researched, emphasis on factual accuracy.

    ⚔️ What's covered:

    • The Heian court and the rise of the bushi
    • The Genpei War and the boy emperor at Dan-no-ura
    • Yoritomo and the founding of the Kamakura shogunate
    • Hōjō Masako and the silent coup of the warrior-nun
    • The Mongol invasions and the kamikaze
    • The fall of Kamakura and the failed Kenmu Restoration
    • The Ashikaga shoguns, Zen gardens, and the Golden Pavilion
    • The Ōnin War and the Sengoku Jidai
    • 1543 on Tanegashima and the arrival of the arquebus
    • Oda Nobunaga, Nagashino, and the death of the cavalry charge
    • The Honnō-ji Incident and Hideyoshi's unification
    • Sekigahara and Tokugawa Ieyasu's long peace

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    #MedievalJapan #Samurai #History #Documentary #Sengoku #Tokugawa #Sleep #JapaneseHistory #Nobunaga

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    1 ora
  • The Persian Empire
    Apr 27 2026

    From a vassal king on the Iranian plateau to the largest empire the world had ever seen — and the Macedonian boy who shattered it in a single afternoon. This is the story of the Persian Empire, the Achaemenid dynasty that invented the multicultural state and ruled the known world for over two centuries.

    Perfect for relaxing, sleeping, or learning while you unwind. Thoroughly researched, emphasis on factual accuracy.

    👑 What's covered:

    • Cyrus the Great and the rebellion against his grandfather
    • The fall of Lydia and the camels that routed Croesus's cavalry
    • The taking of Babylon along the dry bed of the Euphrates
    • The Cyrus Cylinder and the freeing of the Jews
    • Cambyses, Egypt, and Darius's bloody coup
    • The Behistun Inscription and the Royal Road
    • Marathon, Thermopylae, and Salamis
    • The Great Game and the March of the Ten Thousand
    • Artaxerxes III and the funeral pyre of Sidon
    • Alexander, Issus, and Gaugamela
    • The burning of Persepolis and Alexander as the new Great King
    • The ghost of empire and the legacy of Zoroaster

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    #PersianEmpire #History #Documentary #Achaemenid #CyrusTheGreat #Darius #Xerxes #Sleep #AncientHistory #Zoroastrianism

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    1 ora e 5 min
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