8 videodiscs in 1 volume (approximately 1,440 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (viii, 352 pages ; 19 cm) digital optical videodisc DVD video file DVD video polychrome
Target Audience Note:
Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated
Notes:
Course guidebook includes professor biography, course scope, lecture outlines, timeline, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography Forty-eight lectures of thirty minutes each by Professor Gregory S. Aldrete, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Contents:
disc 1. 1. Cities, civilizations, and sources ; 2. From out of the Mesopotamian mud ; 3. Cultures of the ancient near East ; 4. Ancient Egypt : the gift of the Nile ; 5. Pharaohs, tombs, and gods ; 6. The lost civilization of the Indus Valley disc 2. 7. The Vedic age of ancient India ; 8. Mystery cultures of early Greece ; 9. Homer and Indian poetry ; 10. Athens and experiments in democracy ; 11. Hoplite warfare and Sparta ; 12. Civilization dawns in China : Shang and Zhou disc 3. 13. Confucius and the Greek philosophers ;14. Mystics, Buddhists, and Zoroastrians ; 15. Persians and Greeks ; 16. Greek art and architecture ; 17. Greek tragedy and the Sophists ; 18. The Peloponnesian War and the trial of Socrates disc 4. 19. Philip of Macedon : architect of empire ; 20. Alexander the Great goes East ; 21. Unifiers of India : Chandragupta and Asoka ; 22. Shi Huangdi : first emperor of China ; 23. Earliest historians of Greece and China ; 24. The Hellenistic world disc 5. 25. The Great empire of the Han Dynasty ; 26. People of the Toga : Etruscans, early Rome ; 27. The crucible : Punic Wars, Roman imperialism ; 28. The death of the Roman republic ; 29. Augustus : creator of the Roman empire ; 30. Roman emperors : good, bad, and crazy disc 6. 31. Han and Roman empires compared : geography ; 32. Han and Roman empires compared : government ; 33. Han and Roman empires compared : problems ; 34. Early Americas : resources and Olmecs ; 35. Pots and pyramids : Moche and Teotihuacán ; 36. Blood and corn : Mayan civilization disc 7. 37. Hunter-gatherers and Polynesians ; 38. The art and architecture of power ; 39. The comparative armies : Rome, China, Maya ; 40. Later Roman empire : crisis and Christianity ; 41. The decline and fall of the Roman empire? ; 42. The Byzantine empire and the legacy of Rome disc 8. 43. China from chaos to order under the Tang ; 44. The golden age of Tang culture ; 45. The rise and flourishing of Islam ; 46. Holy men and women : monasticism and saints ; 47. Charlemagne : father of Europe ; 48. Endings, beginnings, what does it all mean?
