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History of the World to 1500 CE
Want to see what a college lecture looks like? Watch the 25 video lectures by Professor Richard Bulliet of Columbia University which provide one-hour-sized bites of detailed information about world history. The lectures roughly follow the AP curriculum that we are studying in class. NOTE: the first 50 minutes of the first lecture are all about how world history came to be, which is fascinating but not part of the AP curriculum.
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Want to see what a college lecture looks like? Watch the 25 video lectures by Professor Richard Bulliet of Columbia University which provide one-hour-sized bites of detailed information about world history. The lectures roughly follow the AP curriculum that we are studying in class. NOTE: the first 50 minutes of the first lecture are all about how world history came to be, which is fascinating but not part of the AP curriculum.
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Jared Diamond: Guns, Germs, and SteelBased on Jared Diamond’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same name, Guns, Germs and Steel traces humanity’s journey over the last 13,000 years – from the dawn of farming at the end of the last Ice Age to the realities of life in the twenty-first century. Inspired by a question put to him on the island of Papua New Guinea more than thirty years ago, Diamond embarks on a world-wide quest to understand the roots of global inequality.
Why were Europeans the ones to conquer so much of our planet? Why didn’t the Chinese, or the Inca, become masters of the globe instead? Why did cities first evolve in the Middle East? Why did farming never emerge in Australia? And why are the tropics now the capital of global poverty?
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Why were Europeans the ones to conquer so much of our planet? Why didn’t the Chinese, or the Inca, become masters of the globe instead? Why did cities first evolve in the Middle East? Why did farming never emerge in Australia? And why are the tropics now the capital of global poverty?
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David Christian: The history of our world in 18 minutes
Backed by stunning illustrations, David Christian narrates a complete history of the universe, from the Big Bang to the Internet, in a riveting 18 minutes. This is "Big History": an enlightening, wide-angle look at complexity, life and humanity, set against our slim share of the cosmic timeline.
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Backed by stunning illustrations, David Christian narrates a complete history of the universe, from the Big Bang to the Internet, in a riveting 18 minutes. This is "Big History": an enlightening, wide-angle look at complexity, life and humanity, set against our slim share of the cosmic timeline.
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Horrible Histories
A TV series that revels in history’s most gruesome, bizarre, unpleasant, silly – but funniest moments. From the Woeful World Wars, the Measly Middle Ages and the Savage Stone Age to Cut-throat Celts, Groovy Greeks, Rotten Romans, Vicious Vikings and Awful Egyptians, Horrible Histories celebrates the strange facts, rotten rulers, gory battles, crazy inventions and weird and wonderful stories from the past in sketches and songs.
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A TV series that revels in history’s most gruesome, bizarre, unpleasant, silly – but funniest moments. From the Woeful World Wars, the Measly Middle Ages and the Savage Stone Age to Cut-throat Celts, Groovy Greeks, Rotten Romans, Vicious Vikings and Awful Egyptians, Horrible Histories celebrates the strange facts, rotten rulers, gory battles, crazy inventions and weird and wonderful stories from the past in sketches and songs.
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Crash Course World History
A highly visual crash course in world history, taking you from the beginning of human civilization 15,000 years ago through to our modern age. There are over forty 10-minute videos on everything from the dawn of agriculture to the Cold War of the 20th century.
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A highly visual crash course in world history, taking you from the beginning of human civilization 15,000 years ago through to our modern age. There are over forty 10-minute videos on everything from the dawn of agriculture to the Cold War of the 20th century.
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