9. Cambodia's Khmer Empire (aka the civilization that created Angkor Wat, et. al)

10. Recovered from the Jungle: Angkor Wat (or the temple that is a city)

ITS EPISODE TEN!!! Angkor Wat is considered the largest religious monument in the world. The ancient city where it sits, Angkor, used significantly more stone blocks than the Egyptian pyramids combined, and covers the same space as the city of Paris. It’s a UNESCO world heritage site because of its gorgeous architecture and its priceless insights into the ancient Khmer Empire. Angkor Wat is the giant city temple inside the ancient city of Angkor. Including forested areas and evidence of neighborhoods around the city center, Angkor covers more than 400 square kilometers. The UNESCO site believes that Angkor is “one of the most important archeological sites of Southeast Asia.”    INSTAGRAM: nicheyhistory_pod   EMAIL: nicheyhistorypodcast@gmail.com [nicheyhistorypodcast@gmail.com]   SOURCES:    **START YOUR ANGKOR WAT TOUR ON GOOGLE MAPS STREET VIEW:** https://www.google.com/maps/@13.4125839,103.8593551,3a,75y,89.3h,72.06t/data=!3m9!1e1!3m7!1spqgnja9idlAQNyc7k_KUqQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!9m2!1b1!2i46?entry=ttu [https://www.google.com/maps/@13.4125839,103.8593551,3a,75y,89.3h,72.06t/data=!3m9!1e1!3m7!1spqgnja9idlAQNyc7k_KUqQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!9m2!1b1!2i46?entry=ttu]   HELLO ANGKOR INTERACTIVE MAP: https://helloangkor.com/angkor-wat-temple-complex-map/ [https://helloangkor.com/angkor-wat-temple-complex-map/]   <>  https://helloangkor.com/attractions/angkor-wat/ [https://helloangkor.com/attractions/angkor-wat/] https://www.livescience.com/53030-photos-angkor-wat-discoveries.html  [https://www.livescience.com/53030-photos-angkor-wat-discoveries.html] https://helloangkor.com/attractions/angkor-wat-the-bas-relief-galleries/ [https://helloangkor.com/attractions/angkor-wat-the-bas-relief-galleries/] https://www.livescience.com/53030-photos-angkor-wat-discoveries.html https://www.tour-to-cambodia.com/trip_to_cambodia_photos/02_angkor_wat_tour_angkor_wat_pictures.htm [https://www.tour-to-cambodia.com/trip_to_cambodia_photos/02_angkor_wat_tour_angkor_wat_pictures.htm]  https://helloangkor.com/attractions/angkor-wat-preah-poan-hall-of-a-thousand-buddhas/ [https://helloangkor.com/attractions/angkor-wat-preah-poan-hall-of-a-thousand-buddhas/]    UNESCO Heritage Danger List: https://whc.unesco.org/en/danger/ [https://whc.unesco.org/en/danger/]     Wikipedia Pages (Don't tell on me): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angkor_Wat [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angkor_Wat]  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Meru [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Meru]  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krishna [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krishna]    https://www.history.com/topics/landmarks/angkor-wat [https://www.history.com/topics/landmarks/angkor-wat]    https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/668/ [https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/668/]    https://www.tourismcambodia.com/attractions/angkor/angkor-wat.htm [https://www.tourismcambodia.com/attractions/angkor/angkor-wat.htm]     https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/world-heritage/article/angkor [https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/world-heritage/article/angkor]     https://asiasociety.org/education/legacy-angkor [https://asiasociety.org/education/legacy-angkor]    https://asiatimes.com/2020/12/angkor-in-modern-times/ [https://asiatimes.com/2020/12/angkor-in-modern-times/]    https://www.livescience.com/23841-angkor-wat.html [https://www.livescience.com/23841-angkor-wat.html]    https://www.livescience.com/58064-radar-could-save-collapsing-angkor-monuments.html [https://www.livescience.com/58064-radar-could-save-collapsing-angkor-monuments.html]    https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20211201-angkor-asias-ancient-hydraulic-city [https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20211201-angkor-asias-ancient-hydraulic-city]    https://www.wmf.org/who-we-are [https://www.wmf.org/who-we-are]    https://www.wmf.org/project/angkor-archaeological-park [https://www.wmf.org/project/angkor-archaeological-park]    https://www.wmf.org/project/churning-ocean-milk-gallery-conservation-project [https://www.wmf.org/project/churning-ocean-milk-gallery-conservation-project]    https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/the-churning-of-the-ocean-of-milk/ [https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/the-churning-of-the-ocean-of-milk/]    https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/art-travels-angkor-wat-cambodia/ [https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/art-travels-angkor-wat-cambodia/]    https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/vishnu-purana-wilson/d/doc116055.html [https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/vishnu-purana-wilson/d/doc116055.html]    https://alanlessik.com/2015/01/10/where-are-the-buddha-heads-in-angkor-wat/ [https://alanlessik.com/2015/01/10/where-are-the-buddha-heads-in-angkor-wat/]    https://geographyscout.com/buildings/restoring-the-ancient-angkor-wat/ [https://geographyscout.com/buildings/restoring-the-ancient-angkor-wat/]

9. Cambodia's Khmer Empire (aka the civilization that created Angkor Wat, et. al)

Angkor, during its peak in the 11th to the 13th centuries, was the most extensive pre-industrial urban complex in the world. Over 1,000 temples still survive from this massive society that originated in 802. Come along with me today as we discuss the origins, Golden Years, decline, culture, and religion of one of the most incredible ancient civilizations the world has ever seen.    INSTAGRAM: nicheyhistory_pod    EMAIL: nicheyhistorypodcast@gmail.com [nicheyhistorypodcast@gmail.com]   SOURCES Gallery of temples! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Empire#Gallery_of_temples [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Empire#Gallery_of_temples]    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Empire [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Empire]    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_empire [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_empire]    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hariharalaya [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hariharalaya]    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakong [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakong]    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devaraja#Cambodia_and_Khmer_empire [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devaraja#Cambodia_and_Khmer_empire]    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devaraja#Cambodia_and_Khmer_empire [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devaraja#Cambodia_and_Khmer_empire]    https://www.nla.gov.au/digital-classroom/year-8/asia-pacific-world/angkorkhmer-empire-c802-c1431/themes/way-life-khmer# [https://www.nla.gov.au/digital-classroom/year-8/asia-pacific-world/angkorkhmer-empire-c802-c1431/themes/way-life-khmer]    https://academic.oup.com/book/39071/chapter-abstract/338392949?redirectedFrom=fulltext [https://academic.oup.com/book/39071/chapter-abstract/338392949?redirectedFrom=fulltext]  (The Oxford World History of Empire: Volume Two: The History of Empires. Peter Fibiger Bang (ed.) et al.)   https://around.uoregon.edu/content/new-research-shows-how-many-people-lived-angkor-empire [https://around.uoregon.edu/content/new-research-shows-how-many-people-lived-angkor-empire]    https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abf8441 [https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abf8441]    https://youtu.be/9QzNVorZOUM [https://youtu.be/9QzNVorZOUM] (population density from U of Oregon)   https://www.oup.com.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0024/58191/Chapter-13-The-Khmer-Empire-obook-only.pdf [https://www.oup.com.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0024/58191/Chapter-13-The-Khmer-Empire-obook-only.pdf]    Damian Evans, Martin Polkinghorne, Roland Fletcher, David Brotherson, Tegan Hall, et al.. Perspectives on the ’Collapse’ of Angkor and the Khmer Empire. The Angkorian World, pp.541-553, 2023. Ffhal-04109009f (https://hal.science/hal-04109009v1/document [https://hal.science/hal-04109009v1/document] )    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phnom_Bakheng [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phnom_Bakheng]    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva]  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre_Rup [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre_Rup]

8. Verkhoyansk and Oymyakon ( the coldest permantly inhabited places on Earth)

Though no one really knows what goes on in Russia’s Siberia, everyone knows it’s one of the most extreme landscapes in the world. Covering most of Northern Asia, the millions-of-square-kilometers Russian providence is sparsely populated, even to this day, with all sorts of technology that could potentially help humans thrive in extreme climates. But even in Siberia, there are towns and settlements that seems impossibly habitable. Yet, people survive. What if told you that there were 2 towns in Siberia, thousands of miles apart, that both claim to hold the record for the coldest natural temperature ever recorded on earth? Would you believe me if I told you near one was a highway known as the Road of Bones, and that the other can’t even be accessed by land? What if, even in temperatures as low as negative 90 degrees fahrenheit, the people in these two towns have found a way to survive? Please enjoy the moments where I struggle more with English than I do with Russian :).    INSTAGRAM: nicheyhistory_pod   EMAIL: nicheyhistorypodcast@gmail.com [nicheyhistorypodcast@gmail.com]    SOURCES 2020 Deaths on the Road of Bones: https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/r eal-life/news-life/man-frozen-to-death-after-google-maps-wrong-turn/news-story/13e10cbbc96494ee26e6dea29f4fb469 [https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/man-frozen-to-death-after-google-maps-wrong-turn/news-story/13e10cbbc96494ee26e6dea29f4fb469]    Follow the Road of Bones from Yakutsk to Magadan https://www.google.com/maps/place/P-504,+Russia/@61.7037656,128.583995,8.21z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x5bf7b58f347f1d17:0xb86876cc7bcdfe3b!8m2!3d63.2255969!4d139.5916149!16zL20vMDdwcms5?entry=ttu [https://www.google.com/maps/place/P-504,+Russia/@61.7037656,128.583995,8.21z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x5bf7b58f347f1d17:0xb86876cc7bcdfe3b!8m2!3d63.2255969!4d139.5916149!16zL20vMDdwcms5?entry=ttu]   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_of_Cold [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_of_Cold]   https://web.archive.org/web/20090106205056/http://askyakutia.com/tag/pole-of-cold/ [https://web.archive.org/web/20090106205056/http://askyakutia.com/tag/pole-of-cold/]    https://web.archive.org/web/20120420233601/http://wmo.asu.edu/northern-hemisphere-lowest-temperature [https://web.archive.org/web/20120420233601/http://wmo.asu.edu/northern-hemisphere-lowest-temperature]    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oymyakon [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oymyakon]    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verkhoyansk [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verkhoyansk]    https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/the-pole-of-cold [https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/the-pole-of-cold]    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/photo/pole-cold-life-inside-coldest-known-region-northern-hemisphere-flna1c8417978 [https://www.nbcnews.com/news/photo/pole-cold-life-inside-coldest-known-region-northern-hemisphere-flna1c8417978]    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subarctic_climate [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subarctic_climate]    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R504_Kolyma_Highway [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R504_Kolyma_Highway]    https://www.britannica.com/place/Sakha-republic-Russia [https://www.britannica.com/place/Sakha-republic-Russia]    https://www.rbth.com/history/333033-road-bones-kolyma-gulag [https://www.rbth.com/history/333033-road-bones-kolyma-gulag]    https://www.dangerousroads.org/eastern-europe/russia/48-federal-highway-russia.html#google_vignette [https://www.dangerousroads.org/eastern-europe/russia/48-federal-highway-russia.html#google_vignette]  https://www.britannica.com/place/Verkhoyansk [https://www.britannica.com/place/Verkhoyansk]    https://www.businessinsider.com/verkhoyansk-russia-most-miserable-place-2014-2 [https://www.businessinsider.com/verkhoyansk-russia-most-miserable-place-2014-2]    https://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/vying-for-extreme-tourists-in-siberia-the-cold-war-at-the-arctic-circle-a-402570.html [https://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/vying-for-extreme-tourists-in-siberia-the-cold-war-at-the-arctic-circle-a-402570.html]    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag]    https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/defaultinterstitial.cms [https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/defaultinterstitial.cms]    https://wmo.asu.edu/content/asia-lowest-temperature [https://wmo.asu.edu/content/asia-lowest-temperature]

7. The Middle Ground and the In-Betweens (the woman who helped Cortés Conquer Mexico)

The improbable Spanish conquest over the Mexica empire has been a focal point for many Latin American historians. With little resources or men and even less support from the royals, Hernán Cortés’s expedition into what is now Mexico should have been a sure failure. And yet, Cortés is often considered one of the biggest successes in the conquests of the New World. This view has been held since the 16th century. What created the success of the ill prepared Cortes and earned him his place in the historical hall of fame? How does language play an intricate role in colonization, even when the colonizers want to stomp out the existing cultures? What if Cortes’ conquest over the Mexica empire was only possible because of the collaboration of two “insiders” that worked as Cortes’s interpreter clear up until the moment Mexica’s “capital”, Tenochtitlan, fell?   INSTAGRAM: nicheyhistory_pod [https://www.instagram.com/nicheyhistory_pod/]   EMAIL: nicheyhistorypodcast@gmail.com [nicheyhistorypodcast@gmail.com]   SOURCES   The one full of primary sources: eds. Stuart B. Schwartz and Tatiana Seijas, Victors and Vanquished: Spanish and Nahua Views of the Fall of the Mexica Empire: A Brief History with Documents, 2nd Edition (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2018)    Adorno, Rolena. The Polemics of Possession in Spanish American Narrative. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2007.   Brinkerhoff, Thomas J. “Reexamining the Lore of the “Archetypal Conquistador”: Hernán Cortés and the Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire, 1519-1521.” The History Teacher 49, no. 2 (February 2016): 169-187.   Candelaria, Cordelia. “La Malinche, Feminist Prototype.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 5, no. 2 (Summer 1980): 1-6. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3346027 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3346027].   Cervantes, Fernando. Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest. New York: Viking, 2020.   Greer, Julie Johnson. “Bernal Dias and the Women of the Conquest.” Hispanófila, no. 82 (September 1984): 67-77. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43808106 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/43808106].   Metcalf, Alida C. “Go-betweens.” In Go Betweens and the Colonization of Brazil: 1500-1600, 1-15. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 2005.   Prescott, William H. History of the Conquest of Mexico. Montezuma ed. 4 vols. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1843.   Townsend, Camilla. Malintzin’s Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico. Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 2006.   Waldemer, Thomas P. “Lost and Found in Translation: Carlos Fuentes’s “Las Dos Orillas.”” Romance Notes 39, no. 2 (Winter 1999): 145-151. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4380 29 84 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/4380%2029%2084].   White, Richard. “2. The Middle Ground.” In The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815, 50-93. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexica [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexica] (Don't tell on me)   https://www.historians.org/teaching-and-learning/teaching-resources-for-historians/teaching-and-learning-in-the-digital-age/the-history-of-the-americas/the-conquest-of-mexico/narrative-overviews/the-narvaez-expedition [https://www.historians.org/teaching-and-learning/teaching-resources-for-historians/teaching-and-learning-in-the-digital-age/the-history-of-the-americas/the-conquest-of-mexico/narrative-overviews/the-narvaez-expedition]    https://www.history.com/news/hernan-cortes-conquered-aztec-empire  [https://www.history.com/news/hernan-cortes-conquered-aztec-empire]

6. Early Consumerism (how women went from objects to consumers)

The rise of consumer culture in the early decades of the 20th century corresponded with major adjustments of the woman’s position in society. As the evolving workforce opened doors for women to enter, the consumer culture also had to expand. But how could we possibly know? In what ways can we see the consumer culture shift and adjust to make way for women rising in a world before multimedia advertising? Well, what if, between 100-1950s, advertisements still held the mirror up to consumerism and exposed the root of societal wants?   INSTAGRAM: nicheyhistory_pod   EMAIL: nicheyhistorypodcast@gmail.com [nicheyhistorypodcast@gmail.com]    SOURCES --Primary--   BNA, The Sketch, 30 March 1910.   BNA, The Ottawa Free Press, 16 September 1916.   BNA, The Sphere, 8 December 1928.   BNA, The Express, 6 April 1935.   BNA, Britannia & Eve, March 1950.   --Secondary--   Baudrillard, Jean. The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures. California: Sage, 1998.   Hilton, Matthew. “The Female Consumer and the Politics of Consumption in Twentieth-Century Britain.” The Historical Journal 45, no. 1 (March 2002): 103-128.   Lopate, Carol. “Selling to Ms. Consumer.” College English 38, no. 8 (April 1977): 824-834.   Ostrander, Paula. “The Disruption of Victorian Class and Gender Norms: British Anxieties Regarding Shopping.” The General Brock University Undergraduate Journal of History, 4 (May 2019): 58-73.   https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-brief-history-of-consumer-culture/ [https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-brief-history-of-consumer-culture/]    https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/tupperware-consumer/ [https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/tupperware-consumer/]    https://americanhistory.si.edu/american-enterprise-exhibition/consumer-era [https://americanhistory.si.edu/american-enterprise-exhibition/consumer-era]    https://wams.nyhistory.org/modernizing-america/ [https://wams.nyhistory.org/modernizing-america/]