I like the production values, and the narrator is especially good at leaving spaces. When I watch other videos, it seems like they are trying to recite facts a

I like the production values, and the narrator is especially good at leaving spaces. When I watch other videos, it seems like they are trying to recite facts as fast as possible, and they don't take enough time to explain the terms / names / stories And the sources But IMO the main thing that sets it apart is the contextual knowledge, especially of geography, agriculture, materials, historical weather patterns, etc. I was saying that I felt like I had a big hole in my knowledge. But it also occurs to me that the field of history has advanced greatly since I was in high school in the 1990's, so it probably wasn't possible to make Fall of Civilizations then I think all the technologies adjacent to say "Google Maps" (fine-grained global mapping, historical data sets) have increased our knowledge of history And a lot of that tech is not very old at this point