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Global I - Pre-History to Age of Exploration

Geography

• The 5 Themes of Geography (09:41)
• Geography - Right Here, Right Now (04:43)
• Human Migration (02:23)
• Why Do People Migrate? (03:14)

Culture

• Lost Boys of Sudan - Cultural Differences (04:59)
• The Lost Boys of Sudan - 12 Years Later (10:27)
• Lost Boys of Sudan - Ambassador Ger Duany (20:06)
• Cultural Diffusion - Italian Flowers (00:30)
• Don't Mess with the Flag of the United States (03:00)
• Hong Kong Protestors Sing US National Anthem (01:40)
• Hong Kong Protestors Waving US Flag (02:09)

Neolithic Revolution

• Neolithic Revolution (07:19)
• Characteristics of a Civilization (06:54)
• Jared Diamond - Geographic Determinism (20:46)

Ancient Mesopotamia

• Ancient Mesopotamia 101 (04:10)
• Ancient Sumer (13:46)
• Civilizations of Mesopotamia: Sumerians, Assyrians, Persians, Babylonians (23:06)

Ancient India

• The Indus River Valley Civilizations (04:04)
• The Gupta Empire (10:05)

Ancient Egypt

• Ancient Egypt 101 (06:13)
• Parade of Mummies Ver.1 (01:24)
• Parade of Mummies Ver.2 (01:31)
• Parade of Mummies Ver.3 (02:06)

Ancient China

• History of Ancient China (3:59)
• Qin Shi Huang Di (07:32)
• The Great Wall of China (05:23)
• The First Qin Emperor's Tomb Documentary (42:02)
• Inside the Tomb of the First Qin Emperor (07:43)
• Terracotta Warriors (04:00)
• Philosophy Confucius (05:36)
• Rise & Fall of the Han Dynasty (12:40)
• The Tang Dynasty (10:13)
• All Other Dynasties of China (07:01)
• History of China Every Year (07:15)

Ancient Greece

• Ancient Greece 101 (04:12)
• Athens & Sparta, Two Greek City-States (03:04)
• Athens vs Sparta Peloponnesian War (06:22)
• What Did Ancient Greece Look Like? (04:11)
• Ancient Greek Architecture (02:58)
• Styles of Ancient Greek Architecture Columns (09:58)
• Alexander the Great (07:51)
• Top 10 Facts on Alexander the Great (08:56)
• Greek Philosophers: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle (11:55)

Ancient Rome

• Ancient Rome 101 (05:37)
• Ancient Rome - Marcus Aurelius Promise to Restore the Roman Republic (05:32)
• Ancient Roman World - Coin Production (02:36)
• The Fall of the Roman Empire (09:59)
• Most Impressive Roman Monuments Still Standing (13:25)

Belief Systems

• The Five Major Religions (11:10)
• Animism (04:14)
• Shinto (11:27)
• Judaism (06:12)
• Buddhism (10:16)
• Hinduism (02:53)
• Confucius & Confucianism Bio (05:36)
• Christianity 101 (03:42)
• Sikhism (09:51)
• Islam (03:25)
• The Islamic Schism: Sunni vs. Shiite (19:01)

Silk Road

• The Silk Road Story: Past/Present/Future (23:01)

Byzantine Empire

• The Byzantine Empire (05:21)

The Great Schism of 1054

• The Great Schism of 1054 (03:04)
• The Pope and Patriarch Meet (1st Time in Nearly 1000 Years) (08:25)

Pre-Columbian Civilizations

• The Maya 101 (03:52)
• The Rise and Fall of the Maya (08:34)
• Introduction to the Aztec (Mexica) 04:22)
• What happened to the Aztec (Mexica) (02:27)
• The Rise and Fall of the Inca (05:45)
• Inca - Machu Picchu (03:34)

The Dark & Middle Ages

• The Holy Roman Empire (03:21)
• The Dark Ages (05:37)
• The Magna Carta (1215) (03:06)
• How Dark Were the Dark Ages (02:59)
• Life as a Peasant(09:39)
• Feudalism (02:142)
• The Medieval Period (05:56)
• Religion of the Middle Ages (04:27)
• The Middle Ages in 3.5 Minutes (03:34)
• The Black Death/The Plague (02:45)
• The Plague 101 (04:17)

Mongol Empire

• Rise & Fall of the Mongol Empire (05:00)

Crusades

• The Crusades (07:37)
• The Crusades - The Myths (12:36)
• The Crusades in 5 Minutes (05:00)

Early African Empires

• The Ghana Empire (08:35)
• The Mali Empire (07:33)
• The Songhai Empire (07:16)

The Ottoman Empire

• The Ottoman Empire (07:31)

The Renaissance

• The Renaissance (17:44)
• The Renaissance Begins (06:36)
• The Renaissance - Florence (13:55)
• Rise & Fall of the Medici (11:03)
• Machiavelli (11:01)
• Machiavelli Bio (06:52)
• The Borgias (14:46)
• Renaissance - Art Overview (08:26)
• Dante Bio (11:50)
• Donatello Bio (07:00)
• Michelangelo Bio (04:29)
• Works of Michelangelo (10:10)
• Da Vinci Bio (04:48)
• Raphael Bio (26:54)
• Henry VII Bio (03:00)
• The Wives of Henry VIII song (02:16)
• Mary I Bio (10:00)
• Elizabeth I Bio (03:06)
• Queen Elizabeth I Dances the Volta (02:10)
• Queen Elizabeth I and Plays of Romance (02:43)
• Renaissance Dancing (04:45)
• Renaissance - History of Manners (14:45)

Protestant Reformation & Counter Reformation

• Protest Reformation Overview (04:27)
• An Animated History of the Protestant Reformation (04:55)
• The Counter Reformation (09:41)
• The English Reformation (08:24)
• The Other Protestants: John Calvin & Ulrich Zwingli (07:33)

Age of Exploration / Age of Discovery / The Encounter / The First Global Age

• The Age of Exploration (05:24)
• Bartholomeu Dias & Vasco da Gama Voyages (06:33)
• Vasco da Gama Bio (03:25)
• The Explorers & Their Expeditions (13:33)
• Christopher Columbus Bio (03:17)
• Christopher Columbus (04:48)
• Francisco Pizarro Bio (02:58)
• Hernan Cortes Bio (03:07)
• Fall of the Aztec (15:00)
• Ferdinand Magellan Bio (08:21)
• Spanish Conquest of the Inca Empire (13:02)
• Mel Fisher - The Atocha (15:38)

Global II - 1750 to Present

Late Modern Western African Empires

• Dahomey Empire (08:37)
• Benin Empire (05:42)
• Ashanti Empire (08:26)

Tokugawa Shogunate to the Meiji Restoration

• The Tokugawa Shogunate (06:19)
• Shoguns vs Emperor's Forces Battle (04:59)
• Samurai - Katsumoto (05:06)
• Samurai - Philosophy of Japan (01:19)
• Samurai - Discipline (02:18)
• Last Samurai - Bushido (02:48)
• Meiji Restoration Short History (10:00)
• Meiji Restoration - Emperor's Honor (04:57)

Scientific Revolution

• Johannes Kepler Biography (02:26)
• Nicolas Copernicus Biography (04:42)
• Sir Frances Bacon Biography (01:26)
• Galileo Galilei Biography (02:51)
• Isaac Newton Biography (03:31)

Absolutism

• The Age of Absolutism in Europe (03:25)
• Louis XIV Bio (03:13)
• Absolutism - Louis XIV excerpt: The Man in the Iron Mask (03:22)
• Enlightened Absolutism in Europe, Despots: Frederick II, Catherine the Great, Joseph II (06:14)

The Enlightenment

• What was the Enlightenment (05:32)
• Enlightenment - If We Lose John Locke, We Lose America (05:10)
• Ronald Reagan's Warning about Government (00:14)
• Hobbes Bio (06:45)
• Locke Bio (09:14)
• Rousseau Bio (07:46)
• Montesquieu Bio (04:22)
• Voltaire Bio (04:38)

Industrial & Agricultural Revolutions

• Agricultural Revolution - Eli Whitney & His Cotton Gin(02:23)
• Industrial & Agricultural Revolutions - Causes (05:06)
• Industrial Revolution - Children (15:01)
• Adam Smith Bio (06:43)
• Karl Marx Bio (09:27)

French Revolution

• The 3 Estates of Pre-Revolutionary France (02:12)
• French Revolution - Causes (08:15)
• French Revolution Pt 1 (17:54)
• French Revolution Pt 2 (22:12)
• Tennis Court Oath & The National Assembly (03:40)
• Storming the Bastille (05:29)
• Robespierre - The Reign of Terror (24:50)

Latin American Revolutions

• Latin American Revolutions Overview (05:48)
• The Haitian Revolution (12:04)
• Simon Bolivar (03:34)
• Jose de San Martin (05:04)
• Miguel Hidalgo (06:07)

Napoleonic Age

• Napoleon Documentary (24:00)
• A Brief History of the Napoleonic Wars (06:12)
• The Battle of Waterloo (07:47)

Age of Nationalism

• Age of Nationalism in Europe (05:33)
• The Unification of Italy (07:14)
• The Unification of Germany (03:27)
• The Franco Prussian War (03:48)
• The Madness of King Ludwig II of Bavaria (15:20)
• The Castles of Bavaria & King Ludwig II (06:04)

Irish Potato Famine

• The Irish Potato Famine (11:18)

Age of Imperialism

• European Imperialism (01:01)
• Queen Elizabeth I - Trooping the Colors (03:26)
• Crimean War - Charge of the Light Brigade Poem (02:18)
• Crimean War - Charge of the Light Brigade Story (02:09)
• The British Empire (10:53)
• The Scramble for Africa (10:33)
• British Colonizatation of Africa (20:35)
• Rise & Fall of the Mughal Empire (10:40)
• How Did Britain Conquer India (09:18)
• How the West Colonized China (02:07)
• How British Rule Shaped Hong Kong (09:36)
• The Opium Wars (06:36)
• The Taiping Rebellion (04:30)
• The Boxer Rebellion (08:36)
• The Irish Potato Famine (05:42)
• The Mexican Revolution (10:45)
• Irish Independence (11:48}

World War I

• WW1 - Causes (06:07)
• The Outbreak of WWI (02:50)
• World War 1 Summary (06:43)
• World War I - Every Day (05:54)
• World War 1 (08:48)
• Word War 1 in 6 Minutes (07:03)
• U.S. President Wilson's 14 Points (04:49)
• Treaty of Versailles & Germany (10:53)
• Treaty of Versailles - U.S.,Great Britain, France (02:49)

The Russian Revolution

• The Russian Revolution of 1905 (04:15)
• The Russian Revolution 1917 (07:40)

Inter-War Totalitarianism

• Totalitarianism Explained (00:46)
• Dictatorship Explained (02:50)
• Totalitarianism: Stalin, Mussolini & Hitler (06:44)
• Nazi Germany - The Reichstag Fire (00:57)
• Nazi Germany - The Anschluss (02:32)
• Inside Nazi Germany (13:45)
• Nazi Germany - Swing Kids (02:23)
• Nazi Germany - The White Rose (09:57)
• Nazi Germany - Swing Kids Dancing (03:26)
• Totalitarianism - Fascist Spain (05:04)

World War II

• WW2 - Europe Every Day (07:00)
• World War 2 in 7 Minutes (07:45)
• WW2 - Japanese Expansion (02:00)
• WW2 - The Pacific War, Animated History (16:20)
• World War 2 Highlights (11:21)
• World War 2 Summary (03:57)
• The Invasion of Poland - Every Hour (04:26)
• The French Maginot Line (02:48)
• Life in Occupied France (14:45)
• Winston Churchill Speech - Finest Hour (01:56)
• The Battle of Britain (03:23)
• Pearl Harbor - Surprise Attack (04:48)
• Remembering Pearl Harbor (00:47)
• Aircraft Carrier - USS Doris Miller (07:05)
• Doris Miller Biography (03:13)
• Pearl Harbor - Foretelling End of War (03:49)
• Pearl Harbor Hero's Return to the Arizona (01:43)

• WW2 - D-Day Invasion (09:06)
• D-Day Invasion - Omaha Beach (20:28) Caution: Could be disturbing to some viewers. From Saving Private Ryan (1998)
• WW2 - D-Day Invasion Real Footage (04:22)
• WW2 - Mulberry Harbors (05:31)
• WW2 - Mulberry Harbor Logistics (24:55)
• WW2 - A D-Day Veteran Returns to Omaha Beach 75 Years Later (05:18)
• The Battle of Midway (05:31)
• The Battle of Stalingrad (02:28)
• WW2 - Operation Valkyrie, the Bomb Explodes (03:22)
• WW2 - Operation Valkyrie - Fate of the Conspirators (02:44)
• WW2 - Hitler's Bunker, Steiner's Attack (04:16)
• Pacific War - Atomic Bomb - Hiroshima (01:14)
• The Fallen of World War II (18:31)
• Changes to Europe After WW2 (28:42)

The Holocaust

• World War 2 and the Holocaust (06:34)
• Holocaust - Kristallnacht (01:15)
• Anne Frank & Other Hidden Children of the Holocaust (39:50)
• Three Jewish Uprisings (05:34)
• Holocaust - The Eternal Jew (excerpt) (1:20)
• Nuremberg - The Verdict (06:41)
• Nuremberg - The World's Guilt (04:00)
• Holocaust - Poland Memorial at Auschwitz (01:00)
• Holocaust Survivor - Werner Reich (07:41)
• Holocaust Survivor - Werner Reich - Telling Joke at Auschwitz (04:51)
• First They Came, Martin Niemoller (03:04)
• The Holocaust - The Milgram Experiment (02:17)

The Cold War

• The Cold War Simplified Pt 1 (16:03)
• Cold War Simplified Pt 2 (17:05)
• Cold War Explained in 15 Minutes (16:55)
• The Korean War (04:31)
• The Vietnam War (17:10)
• Cold War - Gadgets (03:01)
• Cold War - Space Race (03:31)
• Cold War - Space Race in Detail (07:24)
• Cold War - Spies (03:19)
• Cold War - Submarine Technology (04:37)

The End of the Cold War

• Reagan at the Berlin Wall (1987) (04:33)
• The End of the Cold War (10:00)
• USSR: Perestroika & Glasnost (08:57)
• The Cold War - Ronald Reagan (06:37)
• Fall of the Soviet Union (04:40)

Communist China

• The Chinese Civil War (8:59)
• The Great Leap Forward (08:36)
• The Cultural Revolution (03:57)
• Mao's Little Red Book (03:52)
• Mao, The Most Brutal Tyrant (14:07)

Decolonization

• The Decolonization of Africa (43:06)
• Africa: Yesterday & Today (15:49)
• The Algerian War for Independence (16:00)
• South Africa: Independence to Apartheid (07:08)
• South Africa: The White Slums (49:57)
• Jomo Kenyatta Biography (05:32)
• Kenya: Mau Mau Rebellion (01:20)
• Mahatma Gandhi Biography (03:34)
• The Colonial History of India (08:09)
• The Partition of India (06:51)
• The Partition of India (Animated) (03:25)
• Jawaharlal Nehru Biography (08:54)
• Pakistan in 10 Minutes (10:38)
• India: Future Superpower (13:18)
• Pakistan: At the Crossroads (01:25)

Human Rights Violations & Genocide

• Armenian Genocide (03:48)
• Ukranian Famine (04:15)
• The Rape of Nanjing (03:52)
• South Africa - Nelson Mandela
• South Africa - Apartheid
• The Cambodian Genocide (09:30)
• Tienanmen Massacre (10:40)
• Tienanmen Square (05:06)
• Tienanmen Square - Tank Man (02:41)
• Top 5 Facts about the Tienanmen Square Protests (1989) (05:26)
• Rwandan Genocide (06:57)
• Bosnian Genocide (06:57)
• Darfur Famine (05:33)
• Guatemalan Civil War (05:14)

Post WW2 Conflicts

• Why Did Israel Win the 6 Day War (05:04)
• The Arab-Israeli War in 1967 (15:58)
• Arab-Israeli War 1948 (05:29)
• Origins of the Words Palestine/Palestinian (04:47)
• Palestinian-Israeli Conflict - Gaza Tunnels (06:37)

Modern China (After Mao)

• China After Mao (06:29)
• The Chinese Communist Part Explained (03:36)

Ecological and Environmental Issues

• Acid Rain (01:59)
• Deforestation.mp4 (02:48)
• Desertification (06:01)
• Climate Model Predictions (05:14)
• 97% of Climate Scientists Really Agree About Climate Change (04:37)
• Global Warming, The Other Side (11:36)
• The New Sun-Driven Cooling Period (17:58)
• Why Climate Change Alarmists Get it Wrong - John Stossel (04:53)

Socialism, Communism vs. Capitalism

• Adam Smith's Invisible Hand Explained (01:27)
• Ocasio-Cortez - Capitalism vs. Socialism (03:01)
• Socialism - Can You Define It (06:01)
• Democratic Socialism? (04:26)
• Is Communism Moral? (05:42)
• Why Isn't Communism Hated as Much as Nazism? (05:19)
• The World's Richest Countries 2020 to 2100 (04:24)

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