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Thank you once again for listening to The Fall of Civilizations podcast. I'd like to thank my voice actors for this episode Mustafa Raai, Peter Walters, Lachlan Lucas, Carson Wishart, Nick Denton, Ree Brignall, and Annie Kelly. Many thanks to the Assyriologist Doctor Eli Bennett at the University of Helsinki for acting as a special consultant on this episode. Reading the ancient Greek of Xenophon's Anabasis was Pavlos Kapralos, and reading the book of Nahum in Hebrew was Rabbi Yaakov Walber, who hosts the Jewish History Podcast. For the last few months, the team behind Fall of Civilizations has been working on a sister project, which is now being released. It's called Vaccine. Vaccine is a podcast that tells the story of the global fight against smallpox through the ages, from its earliest history as a folk demon, through the history of its treatment along the Silk Road and in the libraries of Baghdad, up to its eradication by a global effort in the 1960s. It's the story of human triumph and tragedy, and explores the debates that raged throughout history around power and public health, and what they can teach us today. Vaccine is available now on all podcasting platforms, and will be coming to YouTube as a video series soon. I love to hear your thoughts and responses on Twitter, so please come and tell me what you thought. You can follow me at paul m m cooper, and if you'd like updates about the podcast, announcements about new episodes, as well as images, maps, and reading suggestions, you can follow the podcast at fallofcivpod, with underscores separating the words. If you enjoyed this episode, you might also enjoy a novel I wrote titled All Are Broken Idols. It's a story set during the time of King Ashurbanipal in the final days of the Assyrian Empire, and during the fall of Mosul in 2014. It's available from all bookstores today. This podcast can only keep going with the support of our generous subscribers on Patreon. You keep me running, you help me cover my costs, and you help to keep the podcast ad free. You also let me dedicate more time to researching, writing, recording, and editing to get the episodes out to you faster and bring as much life and detail to them as possible. I want to thank all my subscribers for making this happen. A video accompanying this episode will be available on YouTube in the coming months, and subscribers get early access and can watch without interruption from advertising. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider heading onto patreon.com/fallofcivilizations_podcast, or just Google Fall of Civilizations Patreon, that's p a t r e o n to contribute something and help keep this podcast running.