Fall of Civilizations Podcast Transcripts
Fall of Civilizations Podcast · 22 episodes with transcripts
A history podcast looking at the collapse of a different civilization each episode. What did they have in common? Why did they fall? And what did it feel like to watch it happen?
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21. Majapahit - Empire of the Islands
July 31, 2026
Paul Cooper (0:14)
In the year 1815, the English colonial official Thomas Stamford Raffles would travel across the island of Java in what is today Indonesia.
At this time, the world was torn by war. In Europe, the Napoleonic Wars were raging, and the earth's oceans had become just another battlefront.
SPEAKER_2 (1:56)
Holland had ceased to be an independent nation, and in the year 1811, the French flag was hoisted over Java. But on the 17th of September of the same year, a capitulation was entered into by which all the dependencies fell into the hands of Great Britain.
Paul Cooper (2:16)
Raffles was a lifelong sailor and had actually been born at sea, on a ship commanded by his father off the coast of Jamaica. He became a clerk in the British East India Company at the age of 14, and from there became a true company man. He had spent the best part of the last decade furthering the interests of…
Raffles was fascinated by Java. He remarked on its dramatic landscape of soaring volcanoes and steamy rainforests, its fertile rice terraces and remarkable culture, as he wrote home to King George III.
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