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The world was never the same : events that changed history / speaker Professor J. Rufus Fears ; The Teaching Company.

Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [2010]

©2010

6 videodiscs (approximately 1080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebooks (vi, 132 pages ; 19 cm).

digital optical

video file DVD video

From 1750 B.C. to 2001, historic events that changed the world are discussed.

The great courses ; 3890

Great courses (DVD). Civilization & culture.

World history.

Instructional films.

Fears, J. Rufus, 1945-2012.

Teaching Company.

Events that changed history

Course no. 3890.

Course guidebook contain outlines of each 30 minute lecture.

"History. Civilization & culture"--Container.

Taught by: Professor J. Rufus Fears, University of Oklahoma.

DVD, Region 1.

Lecture 1: Hammurabi issues a code of law (1750 B.C.) -- Lecture 2: Moses and monotheism (1220 B.C.) -- Lecture 3: The enlightenment of the Buddha (526 B.C.) -- Lecture 4: Confucius instructs a nation (553-479 B.C.) -- Lecture 5: Solon--democracy begins (594 B.C.) -- Lecture 6: Marathon--democracy triumphant (490 B.C.) -- Lecture 7: Hippocrates takes an oath (430 B.C.) -- Lecture 8: Caesar crosses the Rubicon (49 B.C.) -- Lecture 9: Jesus--the trial of a teacher (A.D. 36) -- Lecture 10: Constantine I wins a battle (A.D. 312) -- Lecture 11: Muhammad moves to Medina--the Hegira (A.D. 622) -- Lecture 12: Bologna gets a university (1088) -- Lecture 13: Dante sees Beatrice (1283) -- Lecture 14: Black death--pandemics and history (1348) -- Lecture 15: Columbus finds a new world (1482) -- Lecture 16: Michelangelo accepts a commission (1508) -- Lecture 17: Erasmus--a book sets Europe ablaze (1516) -- Lecture 18: Luther's new course changes history (1517) -- Lecture 19: The defeat of the Spanish Armada (1588) -- Lecture 20: The Battle of Vienna (1683) -- Lecture 21: The Battle of Lexington (1775) -- Lecture 22: General Pickett leads a change (1863) -- Lecture 23: Adam Smith (1776) versus Karl Marx (1867) -- Lecture 24: Charles Darwin takes an ocean voyage (1831) -- Lecture 25: Louis Pasteur cures a child (1885) -- Lecture 26: Two brothers take a flight (1903) -- Lecture 27: The Archduke makes a state visit (1914) -- Lecture 28: One night in Petrograd (1917) -- Lecture 29: The day the stock market crashed (1929) -- Lecture 30: Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany (1933) -- Lecture 31: Franklin Roosevelt becomes president (1933) -- Lecture 32: The atomic bomb is dropped (1945) -- Lecture 33: Mao Zedong begins his long march (1934) -- Lecture 34: John F. Kennedy is assassinated (1963) -- Lecture 35: Dr. King leads a march (1963) -- Lecture 36. September 11, 2001.

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