成人快手

The Greeks and Persians

How the clash between Greeks and Persians in 5BC was recorded in stories and poems

• 29 mins

Ancient Athens

Athens' extraordinary creative outburst in politics drama philosophy and the visual arts

• 28 mins

Ancient Rome

How Rome grew from a shanty town to the centre of the world's largest empire

• 28 mins

The Renaissance

The Italian artistic achievement and intellectual innovation that started the Renaissance

• 28 mins

The Golden Age of Islam

The poetry, learning, and science of the 7th Century civilisation that grew out of Islam

• 28 mins

The Colonial Experience

Christopher Columbus, Hernan Cortez, and the arrogance of conquest

• 29 mins

The Enlightenment

The rise of reason, science, tolerance, and liberty in 18th Century France

• 28 mins

Judaism and Christianity

Christianity's intellectual and spiritual debt to Judaism

• 28 mins

The Victorian Age

How cotton, coal, iron, steam, and sweat, gave birth of the industrial revolution

• 28 mins

The 20th Century

The descent of European civilisation into dictatorship, war, and unprecedented genocide

• 28 mins

The 20th Century

Will the disparity between rich and poor prevent the emergence of a global civilisation?

• 28 mins