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Sep 17, 2026
Charles RossGUEST
The Hongshan Empire are well-documented.
Charles RossGUEST
There are murals, tapestries all over China and Mongolia, where, where, um, uh, the first time most people saw elephants was when Hannibal took them into, into Rome to conquer Rome from Carthage.
Charles RossGUEST
The first time people saw dinosaurs or w- uh, dragons, which is what they actually are, um, wa- was when the, when the Mongolians, uh, invaded, um, uh, uh, Turkey, then Vienna, Austria, right? So, so, uh, th- uh, the, these are all, um, like, uh, the, the names are correct, but, um, some of them still exist today, but we j- [laughs] for some reason, we don't, we're not allowed to look at it that way.
Charles RossGUEST
This is really how brainwashing works.
Gary ArndtHOST
Dating back as far as two point four million years, these stone tools suggest that early human ancestors inhabited North Africa and used tool technology much earlier than previously recognized.
Gary ArndtHOST
The recorded history of the region begins with the emergence of early North African groups who came together as the Berber people, who early in their history faced expansion from the city-state of Carthage.
Gary ArndtHOST
The Carthaginians were an offshoot of the Phoenicians who settled in what is today Tunisia and tried to expand their power along the North African coast, including what is today Algeria.
Gary ArndtHOST
The Carthaginians didn't try to conquer the stronger Berber tribes deeper in the region.
Gary ArndtHOST
Instead, they focused on establishing market towns for trade and tribute, and overall, their relationship was mostly positive.
Gary ArndtHOST
As Carthage expanded, the Berber population changed as well.
Gary ArndtHOST
By the fifth century BC, Berbers in Algeria had adopted new farming methods, implemented trade and political reforms, and overall expanded their economy.
Gary ArndtHOST
This progress led to the emergence of two major Berber kingdoms in the third century BC: the Massaesyli and the Masyli.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
When the Visigoths began to advance into Spain, the Vandals, invited by a treacherous Roman governor, crossed to North Africa, where under their king Genseric or Gyseric they ravaged the whole province with merciless cruelty.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
After the capture of Carthage in 439 the Vandals established themselves as the ruling race, and as they were Arians they persecuted the Roman Christians of North Africa.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Under Genseric they also became the pirate masters of the Mediterranean and ravaged the coasts of Italy, even sacking Rome itself in 455.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Another Teutonic kingdom set up at this time was that of the Burgundians, who under their king Gundobad established themselves in the valleys of the Rhone and Saône about the year 443.
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Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Then Spain, the one remaining Visigothic province, becomes for a time the center of Theodoric's policy.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
On the death of Alaric, an illegitimate son, Gezalik, was proclaimed as king by some of the Visigoths.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
He was defeated by the Burgundians and fled to Carthage, where Thrasimund espoused his cause for a time till Theodoric's protests obliged him to dismiss the fugitive.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Ultimately, Gezalik was captured in Gaul by Theodoric's soldiers and put to death.
Marcus PeterHOST
So if you read the office of the readings today, Cyprian writes a letter to Cornelius, and it gives us a remarkable glimpse into that kind of consciousness that they had about the covenant.
Marcus PeterHOST
He's writing from Carthage to Rome.
Marcus PeterHOST
And he declares that they possess the same church, the same mind, the same unbroken harmony.
Marcus PeterHOST
For Cyprian, the suffering of Cornelius in Rome has become his suffering, and also the suffering of the Christians across the Mediterranean world.
Marcus PeterHOST
And that becomes even richer for us when we remember the geography.
Marcus PeterHOST
Cornelius was bishop of Rome, and therefore he was the pope.
Marcus PeterHOST
Cyprian governed the church at Carthage in the Roman North Africa.
Marcus PeterHOST
That means that the Mediterranean Sea separated these two brothers and friends who, they were bishops, geographically.
Warren SmithGUEST
But I think his insight about the nature of pride and the relationship between pride and dominion is key.
Warren SmithGUEST
In City of God, he begins it by basically drawing actually on an argument from a Roman historian who said that Rome's real decline came after the Third Punic War in which Rome not only defeated Carthage, but famously sowed salt into the soil so that Carthage would never be able to flourish.
Warren SmithGUEST
In other words, Rome was seeking dominion, domination, and found security in domination.
Warren SmithGUEST
Augustine's, the Latin phrase that Augustine uses is libido dominandi.
Warren SmithGUEST
Libido, that desire to dominate others, and the conviction that if they simply dominate defeated all possible opponents, first Carthage in the western part of the Mediterranean and then they turned their eyes east to Mithridates and other powers in the east, then they would be secure.
Warren SmithGUEST
So security lay in the ability to control and dominate others.
Warren SmithGUEST
And Augustine says, you know, look, Dominion is something that belongs to God and to God alone.
Eric NicolaiHOST
It was a big dilemma for the early church.
Eric NicolaiHOST
What do we do with those who have sinned like that? The Pope was Cornelius and Cyprian, who was the Bishop of Carthage, they were united in viewing the lapsi with merciful eyes, merciful eyes of Christ, and both advocated for penance followed by true reconciliation.
Eric NicolaiHOST
So, both Cornelius and Cyprian, the two that we celebrate today, received the crown of martyrdom Cornelius was executed in 253 and Cyprian in 258.
Eric NicolaiHOST
And there's a line of reasoning that fits into our Gospel today on this feast of these two martyrs, because the Gospel tells us about the different reactions of the people to John the Baptist and to the Lord Jesus.
Erin MichelsonGUEST
And so usually, you know, I travel maybe... six, eight, 10 countries a year and never been to Tunisia.
Erin MichelsonGUEST
And I was having drinks with somebody in Sarajevo and they're like, does Carthage even exist? I'm like, I don't know.
Erin MichelsonGUEST
And I'm like, I have to go and find out.
Erin MichelsonGUEST
So I just like booked it to Tunis and like nothing more than this guy saying, I wonder if Carthage exists.
Erin MichelsonGUEST
So I'm like, I have to go see ancient Carthage, you know, and see if it's there.
Erin MichelsonGUEST
Yeah.
Astrid HeysteeHOST
I love it.
John BurlinsonNARRATOR
Such were his hopes that he regarded Sicily as a mere beginning, and not, like the rest, as an end of the expedition.
John BurlinsonNARRATOR
So while Nicias was trying to divert the people from the capture of Syracuse as an undertaking too difficult for them, Alcibiades was dreaming of Carthage and Libya, and after winning these, of at once encompassing Italy and Peloponnesus.
John BurlinsonNARRATOR
He almost regarded Sicily as the ways and means provided for his greater war.
John BurlinsonNARRATOR
The young men were at once carried away on the wings of such hopes, and their elders kept recounting in their ears many wonderful things about the projected expedition.
John BurlinsonNARRATOR
Many were they who sat in the palestras and lounging places mapping out in the sand the shape of Sicily and the position of Libya and Carthage.
John BurlinsonNARRATOR
Socrates the philosopher, however, and Meton the astrologer, were said to have had no hopes that any good would come to the city from this expedition.
John BurlinsonNARRATOR
Socrates, as it is likely, because he got an inkling of the future from the divine guide who was his familiar.
speaker_6NARRATOR
During his reign, a controversy arose concerning the manner of reinstating those who had fallen from the faith under the duress of persecution.
speaker_6NARRATOR
Cornelius confirmed his papal authority with the help of St. Cyprian, who was an illustrious pagan rhetorician in Carthage before his conversion.
speaker_6NARRATOR
Consecrated priest and bishop of that city, he was an energetic shepherd of souls and a prolific writer.
speaker_6NARRATOR
He defended the unity of the church against schismatic movements in Africa and Italy.
Josh MercerHOST
Today is also the Feast of Saints Cornelius and Cyprian, early Christian martyrs who share a feast day.
Josh MercerHOST
Cornelius was the 21st pope of the Catholic Church, while Cyprian was a bishop of Carthage and a prominent lawyer and writer.
Josh MercerHOST
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Josh MercerHOST
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