Doodle History

History, doodled.

The rise and fall of great empires, myths put to the test, and ancient catastrophes — researched from real sources, reviewed by a human, and drawn one marker stroke at a time.

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The Trojan War: How Much of It Was Actually Real? · 13 min Was Atlantis Ever Real? (Plato Invented It) · 12 min Was the Samurai Honour Code Even Real? · 12 min Why Did Pompeii's Victims Die in One Second? (Vesuvius 79 AD) · 11 min Why Did Alexander the Great's Empire Die With Him? · 11 min The Persian Empire vs "300": How Much Was Actually True? · 13 min Did the Vikings Really Disappear in 1066? · 12 min How Did the Inca Empire Lose to Just 168 Men? · 11 min What Really Destroyed the Aztec Empire? (Not Spain) · 13 min The Odyssey: How Much of It Was Actually Real? · 13 min The Ottoman Empire Killed Rome — Then Killed Itself · 13 min Imperial China Died a Dozen Times and Refused to Stay Dead · 12 min Genghis Khan Started as a Boy Left for Dead · 11 min Ancient Egypt: 3,000 Years Nothing Could Conquer · 14 min The Roman Empire Refused to Die · 11 min

What is Doodle History? An independent educational channel: every episode is researched from public sources, written and reviewed by a human, narrated, and illustrated in a simple marker doodle style. More about the project →