Trade in New Guinea/Silk Worm Smuggling

In the third installment of Podding Through Time Jacob and Evan tackle a brand new slew of fascinating topics:

• Who was Sun Tzu really, and how has his great work influenced history?
• What was the great cultural exchange that took place across the waters from New Guinea and what has its discovery done for the study of modern anthropology?
• How did the silk trade come to be, and how was China's monopoly on it eventually broken by two heretical monks?
• How has space travel changed from the first steps on the moon half a century ago to today's modern moon rockets from India?
• What is pop history and what role does it play in the modern-day education of history enthusiasts? 

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