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Below is a serial list of all TecC articles with brief descriptions of their actual content - the subjects and innovations beneath those deliberately enigmatic titles. This is the straightforward discovery layer for those who prefer to know what they’re diving into, or who arrived here looking for specific topics.
The main series preserves the mystery-novel experience. This page is the practical concession to searchability.
Episode 08 - The complete roadmap for the TecC series through five historical phases
Episode 09 - Fire as humanity’s first controlled energy technology
Episode 10 - Agriculture and the transition from hunter-gatherer to settled societies
Episode 11 - Animal domestication and its impact on human civilization
Episode 12 - Horse domestication and its revolutionary effect on transportation and warfare
Episode 13 - The wheel’s invention and its role in transforming human mobility and trade
Episode 14 - Bronze metallurgy and the technological leap from stone to metal tools
Episode 15 - Proto-Indo-Europeans as cultural integrators of horse, wheel and bronze technologies
Episode 16 - Writing systems and the externalization of human memory and knowledge
Episode 17 - The emergence of the State as an institutional technology
Episode 18 - Market mechanisms and early economic systems
Episode 19 - Urbanization and the Indus Valley Civilization as a model of planned cities
Episode 20 - The Bronze Age Collapse as the first major civilizational disruption
Episode 21 - Schumpeterian renewal patterns following civilizational collapse
Episode 22 - Iron metallurgy and the democratization of metal technology
Episode 23 - Philosophy’s emergence in Ancient Greece and systematic intellectual inquiry
Episode 24 - Mathematics and astronomy in ancient Mesopotamia
Episode 25A - The ingenuity of Steppes peoples across three epochal generations: The Proto-Indo-Europeans, the Proto-Indo-Iranians and the Scythians - Artefactual innovations
Episode 25B - Part B: Institutional innovations.
Episode 26 - The Rigveda as an uncorrupted high-fidelity 2000+-year-old oral preservation system and knowledge transmission protocol
Episode 27 - Pāṇini’s work on Sanskrit grammar as algebraic algorithmic framework
Episode 28 - The concept of zero in ancient Indian mathematics
Episode 29 - Anglo-Saxon common law and bottom-up legal innovation
Episode 30 - The multiple dimensions of Rome’s fall as civilizational transition
Episode 30B - Cicero’s intellectual legacy and Latin’s survival beyond medieval scholarship
Episode 31 - Renewal patterns in the post-Roman Iron Age recovery
Episode 32 - Al-Khwarizmi and the invention of algebra as a supremely effective system for solving unknowns in the real world
Episode 33 - The Islamic Golden Age as a synthesis of Greek, Persian, and Indian knowledge
Episode 33B - Translation movement in Muslim Spain and knowledge transfer to Europe
Episode 33C - Fractal spinnoff focusing on each of the Islamic scholars and their achievements
Episode 33C1 - Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) on existence, essence, and the philosophical framework bridging Aristotle and Descartes
Episode 33C2 - Ibn Rushd (Averroes) on reason, faith, and restoring pure Aristotle
Episode 34 - Petrarch, his paradoxes, and the classical revival’s role in Renaissance consciousness
Episode 35 - How English shed the complex system of word endings typical of other languages
Episode 35B - Geoffrey Chaucer’s genius in re-establishing English as a respectable language
Episode 35C - Answering the question, why is English spelling so weird?
Episode 35D - Shakespeare’s linguistic innovations beyond popular myths of vocabulary use
Episode 36 - Universities as institutional innovations for knowledge systematization and dissemination
Episode 36B1 - Roger Bacon’s empirical methodology and experimental approach
Episode 36B2 - William of Ockham and how he sowed the seeds of empiricism and modern science
Episode 37 - Paper as a knowledge transfer medium enabling information accessibility
Episode 38 - Pre-Columbian Americas as alternative technological development paths
Episode 39 - Gunpowder and its transformative impact on warfare and political power
Episode 40 - The Black Death as a major demographic and institutional disruption
Episode 41 - Renewal patterns following the Black Death and late medieval recovery
Episode 42 - The moveable type printing press and the democratization of knowledge
Episode 43 - Italian Renaissance workshops (bottega) as innovation engines combining art, science, and entrepreneurship
Episode 44 - Technical drawing and perspective as tools for representing and understanding three-dimensional space
Episode 45 - Brunelleschi’s innovations in architecture, engineering, and artistic technique
Episode 46 - The caravel ship design and Prince Henry the Navigator’s role in Age of Exploration
Episode 47 - The Venetian Patent system (1474) as formalized intellectual property protection