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From Old Babylon to the Medes: Part 2
Season 1
After the challenges to Mesopotamian civilization created by the invasions of the Amorites and Elamites, a succession of new empires emerged. In the …
2 years, 10 months ago
From Old Babylon to the Medes: Part 1
Season 1
After the challenges to Mesopotamian civilization created by the invasions of the Amorites and Elamites, a succession of new empires emerged. In the …
2 years, 10 months ago
The Indus Valley Civilization
Season 1
The Indus valley culture emerged as an early civilization in the early third millennium BCE. It drew inspiration from contacts with Mesopotamia, but …
2 years, 10 months ago
Ancient Egypt: Part 2, Writing, Pyramid Building, and A Second Age of Egyptian Greatness
The Old Kingdom was the era of pyramid building. The Middle Kingdom was a time of renewed strength and territorial expansion. “Intermediate” periods …
2 years, 10 months ago
Ancient Egypt: Part 1, Origins, Religion, and Government
Season 1
Ancient Egypt arose as an early civilization along the Nile River valley in the fourth millennium BCE. A polytheistic society with a great assortment…
2 years, 10 months ago
Ancient Mesopotamia: Part 2, Later Empires in Mesopotamia
Season 1
The period of independent city-states came to an end with the rise of the world’s first empire, the Akkadian Empire of Sargon of Akkad. While it last…
2 years, 10 months ago
Ancient Mesopotamia: Part 1, The Rise and Eclipse of Sumer
Season 1
The city of Uruk in the land of Sumer was one of the first true cities in world history. Advances in technology such as the invention of bronze-makin…
2 years, 10 months ago
Early Civilizations
Season 1
For tens of thousands of years, humans lived largely as mobile, subsistence hunter-gatherers. But with the innovation of agricultural production in a…
2 years, 10 months ago
The Neolithic Revolution
Season 1
The changes that came with the Neolithic Revolution beginning about twelve thousand years ago dramatically transformed human life. The adoption of ag…
2 years, 10 months ago
People in the Paleolithic Age
Season 1
Beginning perhaps as early as 100,000 years ago, modern humans began leaving Africa and migrating far and wide. That this movement occurred during th…
2 years, 10 months ago