A Short History of the World

1. The World in Space

   6:11

2. The World in Time

   6:14

3. The Beginnings of Life

   6:12

4. The Age of Fishes

   9:07

5. The Age of the Coal Swamps

   9:39

6. The Age of Reptiles

   8:59

7. The First Birds and the First Mammals

   10:08

8. The Age of Mammals

   9:17

9. Monkeys, Apes and Sub-Men

   9:13

10. The Neanderthaler And the Rhodesian Man

    9:11

11. The First True Men

    9:51

12. Primitive Thought

    10:18

13. The Beginnings of Cultivation

    10:21

14. Primitive Neolithic Civilizations

    10:56

15. Sumeria, Early Egypt And Writing

    10:01

16. Primitive Nomadic Peoples

    9:21

17. The First Sea-Going Peoples

    11:07

18. Egypt, Babylon And Assyria

    14:50

19. The Primitive Aryans

    10:37

20. The Last Babylonian Empire and the Empire of Darius I

    9:11

21. The Early History of the Jews

    12:08

22. Priests and Prophets in Judea

    9:58

23. The Greeks

    12:24

24. The Wars of the Greeks and Persians

    9:24

25. The Splendour of Greece

    8:16

26. The Empire of Alexander the Great

    9:47

27. The Museum and Library at Alexandria

    12:16

28. The Life of Gautama Buddha

    12:15

29. King Asoka

    4:45

30. Confucius and Lao Tse

    12:10

31. Rome Comes into History

    11:53

32. Rome and Carthage

    9:39

33. The Growth of the Roman Empire

    25:10

34. Between Rome and China

    10:30

35. The Common Man’s Life Under the Early Roman Empire

    13:56

36. Religious Developments Under the Roman Empire

    14:39

37. The Teaching of Jesus

    13:42

38. The Development of Doctrinal Christianity

    8:35

39. The Barbarians Break the Empire into East and West

    10:24

40. The Huns and the End of the Western Empire

    12:38

41. The Byzantine and Sassanid Empires

    10:05

42. The Dynasties of Suy And Tang in China

    4:46

43. Muhammad and Islam

    8:14

44. The Great Days of the Arabs

    8:02

45. The Development of Latin Christendom

    17:38

46. The Crusades and the Age of Papal Dominion

    20:38

47. Recalcitrant Princes and the Great Schism

    20:32

48. The Mongol Conquests

    10:57

49. The Intellectual Revival of the Europeans

    21:06

50. The Reformation of the Latin Church

    9:11

51. The Emperor Charles V

    20:03

52. The Age of Political Experiments; of Grand Monarchy and Parliaments and Republicanism in Europe

    24:41

53. The New Empires of the Europeans in Asia and Overseas

    11:23

54. The American War of Independence

    12:04

55. The French Revolution and the Restoration of Monarchy in France

    18:22

56. The Uneasy Peace in Europe that Followed the Fall of Napoleon

    10:11

57. The Development of Material Knowledge

    20:57

58. The Industrial Revolution

    10:25

59. The Development of Modern Political and Social Ideas

    27:47

60. The Expansion of the United States

    18:37

61. The Rise of Germany to Predominance in Europe

    4:14

62. The New Overseas Empires of the Steamship and Railway

    13:22

63. European Aggression in Asia, and the Rise of Japan

    11:58

64. The British Empire in 1914

    4:58

65. The Age of Armament in Europe, and the Great War of 1914-18

    10:43

66. The Revolution and Famine in Russia

    11:28

67. The Political and Social Reconstruction of the World

    14:37

68. Chronological table

    29:36

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