Fall of Civilizations Podcast - Podcast Rankings and reviews

An extremely well-produced, researched and narrated history podcast. Lots of primary sources and cultural reference points like poetry and music that take true advantage of the medium and humanize the subjects in a way very few podcasts are able.

This series is excellent not only for the info (always interesting bits as well as general context), but Paul’s “tone” and delivery are perfect for listeners of this fascinating subject. Hope he doesn’t run out of fallen civilizations too soon…

I cannot underscore enough just how good this podcast is. I have gotten choked up at the end of each episode. I’ve listened to every episode and many more than once. The two-part Mongolian empire episodes are particularly superb. I’m so grateful for this work.

I really wish I could just subscribe and pay through Apple Podcasts as patron is hard to deal with.

Just when I thought my desperate, climbing-the-walls-COVID-pandemia life would bury me alive, I discovered this most intriguing, long form, ad-free, well-researched podcast.

This podcast not only puts this God-forsaken moment into perspective, it takes me out of my loud head for 3 hours at a time with wonderful writing, quality production and enveloping histories.

Also, of note, this podcast does a great job of telling sad and horrific true stories of cruel human activity without traumatizing the listener with excessively detailed descriptions of gore and carnage. (I listen to about 20 hours per week of podcasts so I have to say, the mix of interesting content without traumatic descriptions of violence is, in and of itself, worthy of accolades.)

I became a patron instantly after listening to the episode on the fall of The Aztecs. It’s the first time I have supported any podcast through Patreon.

Five stars and bravo. Excellent work. Thank you.