Dan and Bernie recorded this together in Stockholm!

Before Confucius, before the Spring and Autumn period, and before the political world we've been exploring on Fan of History, there was the revolution that created it.

Bernie and Dan travel back to the final days of the Shang dynasty and the rise of the Zhou—the civilization Confucius would look back upon centuries later as a model of political and moral order.

Along the way we meet King Wen and King Wu, the emerging idea of Heaven's approval of righteous rule, and some crazy accusations: a lake of wine, a forest of meat, horrific punishments, and even human meat cakes.

Legend, propaganda and history collide as the Zhou prepare to challenge the Shang at the Battle of Muye.

Oh and we recorded this IN PERSON in Sweden with special guest Thomas the Norwegian Viking (dude's got hands that can definitely crush skulls!)

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For once, Bernie and Thomas aren't separated by an ocean—they're sitting together in Sweden!

And appropriately enough, we're staying in Scandinavia for a fascinating new archaeological discovery beneath the waters of western Norway.

Archaeologists have discovered a massive man-made stone structure stretching across the bottom of a narrow strait. What is it? It's the remains of a roughly 1,000-year-old system designed to trap whales inside a bay.

Bernie and Thomas explore the discovery, the remarkable medieval hunting methods described in historical sources, and that archaeologists have finally found physical evidence for a practice that until now was known largely from old texts.

It's underwater archaeology, medieval Norway, ancient law—and a whale trap big enough to reshape an entire strait.

Link to article

https://arkeonews.net/huge-1000-year-old-stone-structure-found-underwater-in-norway-may-be-an-ancient-whale-trap/

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Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4AMQOoqVGQVmbotdkcgn48?si=_BTVBIiwRkKYYZBBSUgMeg

YouTube episode I'm watching:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8f51HtfyK0

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Yang Hu just doesn't know when to leave the story.

In Part 4 of Confucius: The World That Created the Sage, Bernie and Dan finish the remarkable adventures of the rebellious retainer who briefly turned the political order of Lu upside down. Defeated but far from finished, Yang Hu's story involves escapes, stolen symbols of state authority, new masters, and an apparently inexhaustible ability to survive his own political disasters.

But then our story takes an important turn.

After years of teaching, advising, waiting, and wondering whether there was any government worth serving, Confucius finally gets his chance. We follow his entrance into public office and his surprisingly rapid rise through the government of Lu, culminating in his appointment as Minister of Crime.

For the first time, Confucius is no longer simply explaining how a state ought to be governed. He's going to have an opportunity to try it.

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