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Religion and Empire: How Faith Built Nations — Fexingo History — 141 episodes
Ashoka's Dhamma Mahamattas: Bureaucrats of Compassion
Ashoka's Dhamma: Buddhism as Imperial Policy in Ancient India
Ashoka and the Piyadassi Inscriptions: The Devanampriya
Ashoka's Animal Edicts: When an Emperor Spoke for the Beasts
Ashoka's Pillars: The Emperor's Edicts on Stone Across India
Ashoka's Rock Edicts: The Emperor Who Inscribed Morality on Stone
Ashoka's Dhamma Mahamattas: The Empire's Moral Bureaucracy
The Kaaba's Key: Abd al-Muttalib and Pre-Islamic Mecca's Sacred Order
The Aksumite Empire: Christianity at the Crossroads of Africa and Arabia
The Stupa and the Throne: How Ashoka Made Buddhism an Imperial Faith
Mani the Prophet Between Empires
Ashoka's Edicts: The Emperor Who Invented Moral Governance
The Siege of Mecca: When an Umayyad Army Attacked the Kaaba
The Fire Temples of Yazdegerd III: Zoroastrianism's Last Stand
The Martyrdom of Polyeuktos: When a Roman Soldier Defied an Emperor
The Synod of 410: How a Persian Shah Legalized Christianity
Mani the Prophet Who Challenged Empires From Rome to China
Kartir's Fire Altars: How a Priest Forged Zoroastrian Orthodoxy
The Battle of the Bridge Where Arabs Defeated Persia
Kartir's Inscription at Naqsh-e Rostam: Zoroastrian Orthodoxy's Birth
The Sassanid Siege of Dura-Europos
The Synod of 410: How Yazdegerd I Made Christianity Legal in Persia
The Edessa Scroll: Christians in the Sasanian Empire
The Edessa Scroll: Christians, Zoroastrians, and the Shah Who Chose Both
The Mihna: Al-Ma'mun's Inquisition and the Making of Sunni Orthodoxy
The Nizari Assassins: Ismaili Fortresses and the Crusader Era
The Milvian Bridge: When a Cross Conquered Rome
The Kharosthi Script: Ashoka's Lost Language on the Silk Road
The Ulama vs the Caliph: Al-Ma'mun's Inquisition and the Making of Sunni Orthodoxy
The Siege of Mecca When an Umayyad Army Attacked the Kaaba
Ulama and Empire: How Scholars Shaped Islamic Rule
The Rock Edicts of Shahbazgarhi: How Ashoka Spoke to the World
The Sogdians: Buddhism's Silk Road Merchants
The Kanishka Stupa: When an Emperor Built for Buddhism
The Taklamakan Desert: Buddhism's Silk Road Monks
Ashoka's Dharma: How an Emperor Spread Buddhism Across Asia
The Buddhist Emperor Who Rocked the Caste System: Ashoka's Dhamma
Zoroaster and the World's First Monotheism
Kartir's Fire: The Zoroastrian Purge That Reshaped Persia
Ashoka's Rock Edicts: The Emperor Who Preached Nonviolence
The Mauryan Empire and Ashoka's Buddhist Transformation
Edessa's Fall: When the School of the Persians Crossed the Border
The Bamiyan Buddhas: Faith Carved in Stone
Mani's Cosmic Struggle: A Prophet in the Persian Court
The School of Nisibis: Persia's Christian Academy
The Edessa School: Where Persia and Rome Met in Syriac
The Kharijite Challenge: When Outsiders Redefined Islam
The Aksumite King Who Became a Saint
The Kanishka Stupa: When a Kushan Emperor Built for Buddhism
Mani and the Gnostic War of Light and Darkness
How the Mali Empire Built a University of Faith
The Adulis Cross: Axum's Christian Empire
When a Bishop Defied an Emperor: Ambrose and Theodosius
The Mongol Sack of Baghdad 1258: End of an Era
The Siege That Broke Shia Power in Yemen
How the Church of the East Outlasted the Sassanids
Akbar's Infallibility Decree: When a Mughal Emperor Declared Himself Supreme
Akbar's Din-i-Ilahi: A Syncretic Faith or Political Tool?
The Great Church of the East: Inside the Synod of 410
The Forgotten Church: Christianity in Sassanid Iran
The Sassanid Zoroastrian Orthodoxy Under Khosrow I
The Sassanid Church Under Khosrow I: A Delicate Balance
The Edict of Milan: When Rome Made Christianity Legal
How the Church of the East Reached China: The Nestorian Stele Story
The Church of the East's Mission to China: Nestorian Stele
The Sassanid Empire and the Birth of a Persian Church
When Emperors Bargained with God: Theodosius and the Penance of Milan
How the Edict of Milan Changed Christianity Forever
The Sassanid Church: How Persian Christianity Built an Empire
The Safavid Conversion: How Shah Ismail Made Iran Shia
The Siege of Baghdad: How the Mongols Ended the Islamic Golden Age
The Ibadat Khana: Akbar's Interfaith Debate Chamber
The Siege of Mecca and the Birth of Islamic Resistance
The Battle of Talikota and the Fall of Vijayanagara
When a Sultan Bowed to a Saint: Akbar and the Ibadat Khana Debates
When a King Became a Monk: Jayavarman VII's Buddhist Revolution
Vijayanagara's Divine Mandate
The Buddhist Empire of Ashoka's Pillars
The Golden Temple of the Cholas: Brihadisvara's Cosmic Power
The Temple That Bankrolled an Empire: Brihadisvara and Rajaraja Chola
The Council of Chalcedon: How One Meeting Split Christianity
How Constantine Made Sunday Sacred and Reshaped Empire
How the Mongol Empire Used Religion as a Weapon of Control
The Mauryan Empire's Arthashastra: Statecraft and Spies
The Church and the Sword: How Clovis Baptized Gaul
The Great Zimbabwe: A Stone City Without a King
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre: How Constantine Built Christendom's Holiest Site
The Battle That Made the Khmer Empire Buddhist
The Fatimid Caliphate’s Secret: How al-Hakim Lost His Mind and His Empire
The Edicts of Ashoka: How a King Wrote His Empire into Stone
The Aksumite Empire: How a Christian Kingdom Ruled the Red Sea
Zoroastrian Fire Temples: Persia's Sacred Flames and Empire
The Edicts of Ashoka: How a King Wrote His Empire into Stone
The Aksumite Empire: How a Christian Kingdom Ruled the Red Sea
The Sassanid Empire: Zoroastrianism as State Religion
Vijayanagara's Divine Mandate: How a Hindu Empire Rose from Ruins
The Scythian Empire: Nomads Who Tamed the Steppe and Shaped Civilizations
The Inka Road: How a Stone Path United an Empire
The Later Han and Daoist Uprising: How a Celestial Empire Found Salvation
Justinian's Ecclesiastical Empire: How a Christian Emperor Reshaped Church and State
The Abbasid Caliphate: How Paper and Translation Built an Empire of Knowledge
The Gupta Empire Hinduism's Golden Age of Statecraft
The Fatimid Caliphate: An Ismaili Empire of Tolerance and Conquest
The Abbasid Caliphate: How Paper and Translation Built an Empire of Knowledge
The Temple That Moved a Mountain: Angkor Wat's Hindu Apotheosis
The Almoravids: How a Desert Brotherhood Forged an Empire
The Pious King: How Ashoka Spread Buddhism Across Asia
How the Umayyad Caliphate Built an Arab Islamic Empire
The Sikh Empire: Ranjit Singh's Secular Khalsa State
The Karaite Schism: Judaism's Rebel Empire
The Maratha Empire: Hindu Resistance and the Fall of the Mughals
Constantine's Christian Revolution and the Council of Nicaea
The Heavenly Kingdom: How the Taiping Rebellion Forged a Christian Empire in China
The Peaceful Buddha King of Sri Lanka
The Sasanian Empire: Zoroastrianism as State Religion
Ivan the Terrible and the Making of a Russian Orthodox Empire
The Caliph and the Caesar: Heraclius, Islam, and the End of Antiquity
The Edicts of Ashoka: Buddhism's First Imperial Blueprint
The Sassanid State Religion How Zoroastrianism Forged an Empire
The Church and the Sword: Constantine's Christian Revolution
The Ghost Emperor: Yongle's Buddhist Empire of the Ming
The Aksumite Empire: Christianity and Statecraft in Ancient Ethiopia
The Jesuit Mission: How a Catholic Order Shaped Ming China
Suleiman the Magnificent: Lawgiver and Caliph of the Ottoman Empire
Kublai Khan's Dharma: Why a Mongol Emperor Became a Buddhist King
The Fifth Monarchists and Oliver Cromwell's Puritan Empire
The Church and the Sword: Constantine's Christian Revolution
The Gupta Empire: Hinduism's Golden Age of Faith and Power
The Edicts of Ashoka: Buddhism's First Imperial Blueprint
The Mongol Empire and the Great Tolerance
The Axum Empire: When Christianity Came to Africa
The East African Pillar: Islam and Empire in the Swahili City-States
The Timurid Renaissance: Faith, Conquest, and Culture in Central Asia
The Sikh Empire: When Ranjit Singh Unified the Punjab
The Conquistadors and the Virgin: How Catholicism Conquered the Aztecs
The Scepter and the Cross: Charlemagne's Christian Empire
The Lotus and the Sword: Buddhism Meets Empire in Southeast Asia
The Heavenly Mandate: Religion and Empire in Tang China
Ashoka the Great: From Bloodthirsty Conqueror to Buddhist Emperor
The Caliph and the Emperor: Faith as a Weapon in the Arab-Byzantine Wars
When Gods Walked Among Emperors: Faith and Power in Ancient Rome