From the Audio CD - Rev. ed. ; Unabridged.
Disc 1. The glory that was Rome
The early days of Britain. Celts of Britain
Barbarians come to Britain
Christianity comes to Britain
The medieval Indian empire. A King named Skandagupta
The great dynasties of China. Yang Chien unites north and south
East of China. The Yamato dynasty of China
Tale of three countries: Korea, China, and Japan
The bottom of the world. The first people of Australia
Disc 3. The long journey of the Maori
The Kingdom of the Franks. Clovis, the ex-barbarian
The Islamic Invasion. Islam in Spain and Africa
The great kings of France. Charles the hammer
Greatest king: Charlemagne
The arrival of the Norsemen. The Viking invasion
Eric the Red and "Eric's Son"
The Norse gods / Thor and the giant king
The first kings of England. Vikings invade England
Disc 4. England after the conquest
A new kind of king. Richard the Lionhearted.
Disc 5. John Lackland and the Magna Carta
Robin Hood / Robin Hood and the butcher
The Diaspora. The scattering of the Jews
A tale of the Diaspora /The clever rabbi of Cordova
The Mongols devastate the east
Exploring the mysterious East. Marco Polo goes to China
The Forbidden city of the Ming
- The first Russians. The Rus come to Constantinople
Ivan the Great and Ivan the Terrible
Disc 6. The Ottoman empire
The end of the world. The plague
France and England at war. Henry V and the Battle of Agincourt
War for the English throne
The kingdoms of Spain and Portugal
Ferdinand and Isabella unite Spain
Henry the Navigator, prince of Portugal
Disc. 7. African kingdoms. Gold, salt, and Ghana
India under the Moghuls. The Moghul dynasty
Akbar of India / The Bad-luck servant
Exploring new worlds. Christopher Columbus
The Mayans of Central America
The marvelous city of Tenochtitlan
Disc 8. Spain, Portugal, and the New World. The slave trade
Martin Luther's new ideas
Reformation and Counter Reformation
The new universe. The revolution of Copernicus
Galileo's strange notions
England's greatest queen. The queen who almost wasn't
England's greatest playwright. William Shakespeare / Macbeth
New ventures to the Americas. Walter Raleigh and the New World
Explorations in the North. New-Found land
Jacques Cartier's discoveries
Empires collide. Spain and England's war
The world at the end of the sixteenth century.
