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Cities of the Ancient World is your opportunity to survey the breadth of the ancient world through the context of its urban development....

For years, The Great Courses has taken lifelong learners on stirring explorations of our ancient roots; ones that bring you face to face with what history means....

The word "barbarian" quickly conjures images of Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan....

Over the course of 48 ambitious lectures, take a grand journey through Eastern civilization to study everything from the material economy of day-to-day life to its philosophies....

Centuries have passed since the last crusader knight laid down his sword, but the Crusades continue to hold sway over our world....

The past truly comes alive as you take a series of imaginative leaps into the world of history's anonymous citizens....

This broad and panoramic series, ripe with the telling detail on which history can turn, will help you pull an enormous sweep of history together into one coherent framework....

Experience for yourself the drama of this dynamic year in medieval history, centered on the landmark Norman Conquest....

This series of lectures offers detailed analyses of the strategic and tactical dimensions of the Civil War's most important campaigns....

As war and business become more mental and less physical, human intellect plays an ever greater role in competition-making Sun Tzu's strategies highly relevant to the information age....

Beginning with the Renaissance, the culture of the West exploded....

Far from being a time of darkness, the Middle Ages was an essential period in the grand narrative of Western history. Discover what it was like to actually live in this extraordinary era....

In these 12 inspiring lectures, Professor Fears presents a well-balanced portrait of Churchill that does not whitewash his flaws. Yet he also draws on the most recent historical scholarship and material from Churchill's writings and speeches....

These 12 fast-paced lectures cover many civilizations that may only receive a few lines of cursory discussion in the average Western civilization textbook....

These 36 captivating lectures form an intriguing and engaging tour of thousands of years of human history....

These 24 lectures trace a journey from Scandinavia across central Europe to the farthest reaches of the Byzantine and Islamic empires, providing insight to this one-lost era....

While American history spans not much more than two centuries, it is filled with a wealth of leaders, wars, movements, inventions, and ideas....

Buried by the centuries on soaring mountain slopes and beneath arid deserts and lush jungles of South America, the remains of extraordinary, majestic civilizations....

You'll come away from this course with new insight that will allow you to take an informed, active interest in political and military debates....

By the end of the series, you'll have a new understanding of what it meant to be a Viking and a richer appreciation of this remarkable race....