| Description |
18 audio discs : CD, audio digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 132 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm). |
| Series |
Great courses |
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Great courses (Compact disc)
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| Contents |
V. 1. disc 1. Hammurabi issues a code of law ; Moses and monotheism -- 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. |
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V. 2. 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. |
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V. 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. |
| Performer |
J. Rufus Fears, University of Oklahoma. |
| System Details |
Compact disc. |
| Subject |
World history -- Sound recordings.
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World history. |
| Added Author |
Teaching Company.
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| Added Title |
events that changed history |
| ISBN |
159803684X |
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9781598036848 |
| Music No. |
PB3890A Teaching Co. |
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