111,080 videos · Civilizations, events and the evidence we have for them.
58:19Irving Finkel of the British Museum tells how he decoded a cuneiform tablet describing a round ark, and what Mesopotamian flood stories reveal about the Genesis account.
52:19Archaeologist Eric Cline presents the argument of his book 1177 BC: how a network of Late Bronze Age civilizations collapsed together through a 'perfect storm' of causes.
2:27:49A long-form narrative history of Sumer, from the first cities of Mesopotamia to their decline, drawing on archaeology and translated cuneiform texts.
1:09:32Yale Ancient Greek History, lecture 7: Colonization and tyranny continued, with examples like Corinth and Megara.
44:14Yale Early Modern England, lecture 11: Political participation in the Elizabethan 'monarchical republic'.
45:50Yale Early Middle Ages, lecture 13: Monasticism from the desert fathers to the Benedictine Rule.
53:16Yale Civil War and Reconstruction, lecture 6: The Mexican War, slavery's expansion and the Compromise of 1850.
48:47Yale Early Middle Ages, lecture 9: Justinian's reign: law, reconquest, Hagia Sophia and plague.
44:02Yale Early Middle Ages, lecture 20: Charlemagne's court and the Carolingian Renaissance of learning.
46:36Yale Early Modern England, lecture 23: England's economic development and place in the world, 1660-1720.
1:08:11Yale Ancient Greek History, lecture 2: The Greek Dark Ages after the collapse of Mycenaean civilization and how archaeology reconstructs them.
1:08:38The Classic Maya cities and the collapse that left them in the jungle.
5:29:21The Achaemenid Persian Empire and its fall to Alexander.
50:47Yale Civil War and Reconstruction, lecture 17: Home fronts and 'hard war': the war's social impact.
46:23Yale Early Middle Ages, lecture 5: St Augustine's Confessions as a window on late-Roman religion and the self.
1:15:01Yale Ancient Greek History, lecture 14: The Athenian empire continued, and Pericles' leadership.
46:37Yale Civil War and Reconstruction, lecture 12: The Fort Sumter crisis and the strategies each side began with.
52:24Yale Civil War and Reconstruction, lecture 9: John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry and how it was read North and South.
51:43Yale Early Modern England, lecture 10: The Elizabethan church settlement, Catholics and Puritans.
49:44Yale Early Middle Ages, lecture 15: The Islamic conquests and the civil wars over the caliphate.
1:19:48Yale Ancient Greek History, lecture 18: The causes and first phase of the Peloponnesian War, continued.
48:08Yale Early Modern England, lecture 22: The Restoration settlement and its instability.
45:17Yale Early Middle Ages, lecture 3: Constantine's conversion and the rise of the Church within the empire.
50:28Yale Civil War and Reconstruction, lecture 14: The military and political turning points of 1863.
4:14:48The Aztec world and its fall to the Spanish and their indigenous allies, told from both sides' sources.
44:11Yale Early Middle Ages, lecture 16: The Abbasid caliphate and its cultural flowering in Baghdad.
46:29Yale Early Modern England, lecture 16: Popular protest and riot.
47:12Yale Early Modern England, lecture 21: The regicide and the English republic, 1647-1660.
52:08Yale Civil War and Reconstruction, lecture 22: The constitutional crisis and Johnson's impeachment.
45:18Yale Early Middle Ages, lecture 17: Why the seventh century was the turning point of the period.
3:13:59The last great Hindu empire of South India, its capital Hampi and its destruction in 1565.
50:44Yale Civil War and Reconstruction, lecture 21: Andrew Johnson against the Radical Republicans over Reconstruction.
44:15Yale Early Middle Ages, lecture 12: Early medieval Britain and Ireland, from Roman withdrawal to Irish Christianity.
50:01Yale Early Middle Ages, lecture 11: Frankish society, law and the Merovingian church.
51:12Yale Civil War and Reconstruction, lecture 19: Appomattox, the war's end and the search for its meaning.
48:37Yale Early Middle Ages, lecture 2: The third-century crisis of the Roman Empire and Diocletian's administrative and military reforms.
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