Is Genghis Khan Harder Than Jocko Willink? - Dan Jones | Modern Wisdom Podcast 380

Dan Jones is a historian, TV presenter and an author. Dan took a break from walking about great British castles to write a book about the 1000 years of the Middle Ages. Knights and Templars and Monks and Mongols and Barbarians. Expect to learn why Genghis Khan was harder than Jocko Willink, Dan's best ever finish in Peloton, why I won't be allowed to go as a wizard to his imaginary medieval fancy dress party, just how bad a pandemic in the Middle Ages was, why Rome got rekt by climate change and much more... Sponsors: Get over 37% discount on all products site-wide from MyProtein at http://bit.ly/modernwisdom (use code: MODERNWISDOM) Get 20% discount & free shipping on your Lawnmower 4.0 at https://www.manscaped.com/ (use code MODERNWISDOM) Extra Stuff: Buy Powers & Thrones - https://amzn.to/3m6kXtc Follow Dan on Twitter - https://twitter.com/dgjones Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom #history #middleages #jocko - 00:00 Intro 04:38 Dan’s Powers & Thrones Book 11:25 Why Rome Was Destroyed 19:26 Hard People Throughout Time 32:57 Medieval Archetypes 40:15 Pandemics in the Middle-Ages 47:45 Innovation in Medieval Times 1:04:25 Making History More Accessible - To support me on Patreon (thank you): http://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom Listen to all episodes on audio: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2MNqIgw Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2LSimPn - Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/

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Oct 4, 20211h 11mWatch on YouTube ↗

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Released: October 4, 2021
Duration: 1h 11m
Channel: Modern Wisdom
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Dan Jones is a historian, TV presenter and an author. Dan took a break from walking about great British castles to write a book about the 1000 years of the Middle Ages. Knights and Templars and Monks and Mongols and Barbarians. Expect to learn why Genghis Khan was harder than Jocko Willink, Dan's best ever finish in Peloton, why I won't be allowed to go as a wizard to his imaginary medieval fancy dress party, just how bad a pandemic in the Middle Ages was, why Rome got rekt by climate change and much more... Sponsors: Get over 37% discount on all products site-wide from MyProtein at http://bit.ly/modernwisdom (use code: MODERNWISDOM) Get 20% discount & free shipping on your Lawnmower 4.0 at https://www.manscaped.com/ (use code MODERNWISDOM) Extra Stuff: Buy Powers & Thrones - https://amzn.to/3m6kXtc Follow Dan on Twitter - https://twitter.com/dgjones Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom #history #middleages #jocko - 00:00 Intro 04:38 Dan’s Powers & Thrones Book 11:25 Why Rome Was Destroyed 19:26 Hard People Throughout Time 32:57 Medieval Archetypes 40:15 Pandemics in the Middle-Ages 47:45 Innovation in Medieval Times 1:04:25 Making History More Accessible - To support me on Patreon (thank you): http://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom Listen to all episodes on audio: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2MNqIgw Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2LSimPn - Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/

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Dan Jones
guest
Chris Williamson
host

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Modern Wisdom, featuring Dan Jones and Chris Williamson, Is Genghis Khan Harder Than Jocko Willink? - Dan Jones | Modern Wisdom Podcast 380 explores dan Jones Explains Medieval Power, Plague, and Why Genghis Won Historian Dan Jones joins Chris Williamson to discuss his new book *Powers and Thrones*, a sweeping history of the Middle Ages from the first to the second sack of Rome. They explore why Rome fell, why no one quite replicated its empire, and how figures like Genghis Khan and early Islamic caliphs wielded power. Jones unpacks medieval archetypes like monks and knights to show different forms of power—military, religious, institutional—and draws parallels to modern corporations and media. Along the way they detour into Peloton cults, hard men like Jocko and Goggins, pandemics, medieval technology, and Jones’s fiction and TV work.

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