Father to an Empire - Kabul, 1504
Episode 34 of the Cloak and Dagger Podcast
The Cloak and Dagger Podcast · Will Davis-Coleman and Patrick Courtney
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Show Notes
How far would you go to live up to a family name? If your ancestry included not one but two founders of empires, do you really have much choice in what life you are destined for?
Afghanistan has seen the rise of dozens of empires over the course of the thousands of years people have called it home. And at the dawn of the 16th century, one of these empires rose to unite a fractured land torn apart by quarrelling princes. This is the tale of the man who forged this empire, an empire which one day would stretch all the way from the middle east to the Indian subcontinent, and the tale of the great power he held that made his enemies tremble…
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Music:
Positive Fat Bass Intro Loop by WinnieTheMoogLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/6093-positive-fat-bass-intro-loop License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license