Episode

S1E4 - What's Rome's DEAL?

Podcast: History Snacks
Published: Feb 25, 2026
Duration seconds: 1001
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Summary

The whole Roman timeline in under 17 minutes. Can we do it? Sure. Should we have done it? Historians will argue. The important part is not the details we retain, but the Brutuses we meet along the way. In this episode we encounter tyrants, questions about how to run an empire, assassinations, civil wars, a Charlemagne jumpscare, and an extremely quick overview of over 2,000 years of history.