Tesch Talks European History
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Podcast Overview
<p>In this podcast, I explore the history of Europe from the Renaissance to the present. In each episode, we talk about the social, political, cultural, and economic changes that Europe went through, and how they brought us the Europe that we know today. </p>
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4/15/2026
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Recent Episodes
July 9, 2026
Commercial Revolution
<p>In the beginning of the 1500s, hundreds of thousands of regular people rose up in an armed, bloody revolt that shook central Europe to its foundations. Why were they so furious? Because the very ground beneath their feet was shifting. For generations, European life was simple: you farmed the land, and you gave your loyalty to a local lord. But by the 1500s, a massive wave of global trade, skyrocketing inflation, and early capitalism was tearing that old world apart. Wealth was no longer just about who owned the land — it was about who controlled the markets. In this episode, we are exploring the Commercial Revolution: the chaotic, transformative era that destroyed the Middle Ages and birthed the modern economic world.</p>
June 15, 2026
Columbian Exchange
<p>It boggles the mind to think that when the Taino people walked out onto the beaches of San Salvador and looked at Christopher Columbus, they weren’t just looking at men from another country; they were looking across a 15,000-year-old canyon of human separation. Columbus’s men brought weapons, clothes, and concepts forged by thousands of years of European, Asian, and African collision. But they also brought diseases that had never existed in the New World. In this episode, were going to talk about how the geographic isolation that had allowed these two worlds to grow into distinct, beautiful masterpieces was about to become the New World’s undoing.</p>
May 29, 2026
Rivals on the World Stage
<p>When the news reached Venice that Vasco da Gama had made it all the way to India and back by ship, the Venetians knew that their monopoly on selling luxury goods from Asia was over. The task of breaking the news to the Doge of Venice fell to Piero Pasqualigo, the Venetian diplomat stationed in Lisbon. Throughout the 1400s, European states like Portugal, Castile, and Venice were locked in a battle for trade dominance. Venice guarded its Mediterranean strongholds (meaning), Castile and Portugal looked outward to the uncharted Atlantic. With every new island that Portugal claimed, its neighbor Castile looked for ways to increase its own regional and global influence. This decades-long competition for trade ignited an age of discovery that permanently shifted the global balance of power from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic. In this episode, we look at how these power struggles played out.</p>
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- What is Tesch Talks European History?
<p>In this podcast, I explore the history of Europe from the Renaissance to the present. In each episode, we talk about the social, political, cultural, and economic changes that Europe went through, and how they brought us the Europe that we know today. </p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
This podcast updates daily.
- Where can I listen to this podcast?
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- Does this podcast accept guests?
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