Record details

• ISBN: 9781598038040
• ISBN: 1598038044
• Physical Description: 24 audio discs (24 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (viii, 352 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
• Publisher: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [2011]

Content descriptions

General Note:

Compact discs.

Forty-eight lectures (30 min. each).

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Course guidebook Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Vol. 1. Disc 1. Lecture 1 Cities, civilizations, and sources ; Lecture 2 From out of the Mesopotamian mud -- Disc 2. Lecture 3 Cultures of the ancient Near East ; Lecture 4 Ancient Egypt : the gift of the Nile -- Disc 3. Lecture 5 Pharaohs, tombs, and gods ; Lecture 6 The lost civilization of the Indus Valley -- Disc 4. Lecture 7 The Vedic age of ancient India ; Lecture 8 Mystery cultures of early Greece -- Disc 5. Lecture 9 Homer and Indian poetry ; Lecture 10 Athens and experiments in democracy -- Disc 6. Lecture 11 Hoplite warfare and Sparta ; Lecture 12 Civilization dawns in China : Shang and Zhou.

Vol. 2. Disc 7. Lecture 13 Confucius and the Greek philosophers ; Lecture 14 Mystics, Buddhists, and Zoroastrians -- Disc 8. Lecture 15 Persians and Greeks ; Lecture 16 Greek art and architecture -- Disc 9. Lecture 17 Greek tragedy and the Sophists ; Lecture 18 The Peloponnesian War and the trial of Socrates -- Disc 10. Lecture 19 Philip of Macedon: architect of empire ; Lecture 20 Alexander the Great goes East -- Disc 11. Lecture 21 Unifiers of India: Chandragupta and Asoka ; Lecture 22 Shi Huangdi: first emperor of China -- Disc 12. Lecture 23 Earliest historians of Greece and China ; Lecture 24 The Hellenistic world.

Vol. 3. Disc 13. Lecture 25 The Great empire of the Han Dynasty ; Lecture 26 People of the Toga: Etruscans, early Rome -- Disc 14. Lecture 27 The crucible: Punic Wars, Roman imperialism ; Lecture 28 The death of the Roman republic -- Disc 15. Lecture 29 Augustus: creator of the Roman empire ; Lecture 30 Roman emperors: good, bad, and crazy -- Disc 16. Lecture 31 Han and Roman empires compared: geography ; Lecture 32 Han and Roman empires compared: government -- Disc 17. Lecture 33 Han and Roman empires compared: problems ; Lecture 34 Early Americas: resources and Olmecs -- Disc 18. Lecture 35 Pots and pyramids: Moche and Teotihuacán ; Lecture 36 Blood and corn: Mayan civilization.

Vol. 4. Disc 19. Lecture 37 Hunter-gatherers and Polynesians ; Lecture 38 The art and architecture of power -- Disc 20. Lecture 39 The comparative armies: Rome, China, Maya ; Lecture 40 Later Roman empire: crisis and Christianity -- Disc 21. Lecture 41 The decline and fall of the Roman empire? ; Lecture 42 The Byzantine empire and the legacy of Rome -- Disc 22. Lecture 43 China from chaos to order under the Tang ; Lecture 44 The golden age of Tang culture -- Disc 23. Lecture 45 The rise and flourishing of Islam ; Lecture 46 Holy men and women: monasticism and saints -- Disc 24. Lecture 47 Charlemagne: father of Europe ; Lecture 48 Endings, beginnings, what does it all mean?

Participant or Performer Note:

Gregory S. Aldrete, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

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Subject:

World history.
History, Ancient.
History, Ancient.
World history.

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Audiobooks.
Audiobooks.
Talking books.
Talking books, Unabridged.

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