The World Was Never the Same: Events That Changed History (The Great Courses, Course Number 3890 )

Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co.,, 2010. DVD. Good. 18 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. Ex-library, in three boxes. Details: Compact discs.Contents: v. 1 of 3.; disc 1.; Hammurabi issues a code ;; Moses and monotheisem --; disc 2.; The enlightement of the Buddha ;; Confucius instructs a nation --; disc 3.; Solon, democracy begins ;; Marathon, democracy triumphant --; disc 4.; Hippocrates takes an oath ;; Caesar crosses the Rubicon --; disc 5.; Jesus, the trial of a teacher ;; Constantine I wins a battle --; disc 6.; Muhammad moves to Medina, the Hegira ;; Bologna gets a university.; v. 2 of 3.; disc 7.; Dante sees Beatrice ;; Black death, pandemics and history --; disc 8.; Columbus finds a New World ;; Michelangelo accepts a commission --; disc 9.; Erasmus, a book sets Europe ablaze ;; Luther's new course changes history --; disc 10.; The defeat of the Spanish Armada ;; The Battle of Vienna --; disc 11.; The Battle of Lexington ;; General Pickett leads a charge --; disc 12.; Adam Smith versus Karl Marx ;; Charles Darwin takes an ocean voyage.; v. 3 of 3.; disc 13.; Louis Pasteur cures a child ;; Two brothers take flight --; disc 14.; The Archduke makes a state visit ;; One night in Petrograd --; disc 15.; The day the stock market crashed ;; Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany --; disc 16.; Franklin Roosevelt becomes President ;; The atomic bomb is dropped --; disc 17.; Mao Zedong begins his long march ;; John F. Kennedy is assassinated --; disc 18.; Dr. King leads a march ;; September 11, 2001.