A Brief History of the World (The Great Courses, Number 8080 DVD)

36 university level lessons/6 DVDs/3 clamshell cases/249pg outline. A compelling overview of the human experience presented by a pioneering scholar and multi-award-winning teacher in world history, Professor Peter N. Stearns. You'll examine and compare the peoples, cultures, and nations of Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas to understand how, throughout history, peoples all over the world have connected and interacted, traded goods and technology, and conquered and learned from each other. 1. What and Why Is World History? 2. The Neolithic Revolution.3. What Is a Civilization? 4. The Classical Period in World History.5. Cultural Change in the Classical Period.6. Social Inequalities in Classical Societies.7. The Roman Empire and Han China.8. The Silk Road; Classical Period Contacts.9. The Decline of the Classical Civilizations.10. The Postclassical Period, 500-1450.11. World Religions and Their Consequences.12. The Impact of Islam.13. Postclassical Trade and Contacts.14. Postclassical Patterns of Imitation.15. Western Civilization in World Context.16. The Mongol Years.17. Civilizations in the Americas and in Africa.18. The World in 1450.19. The Early Modern Period, 1450-1750.20. The World Economy, 1450-1750.21. Transformations in Western Europe.22. The Rise of Russia.23. Asian Empires and a Shogunate.24. The Long 19th Century.25. Abolition of Slavery and Serfdom.26. Modernization and Nationalisms.27. Formation of Latin American Civilization.28. China and Japan-19th-Century Pressures.29. The 20th-21st Centuries as a New Period. 30. The World Economy-Change and Continuity.31. An Age of Revolutions.32. The United States in World History.33. Contemporary Democracy.34. Contemporary Cultural Change.35. Gender in Contemporary World History.36. Globalization and World History.