The Story of the World : History for the Classical Child. Volume 2. The Middle Ages : From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of the Renaissance

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Unabridged.
Compact discs.
Disc 1. The glory that was Rome -- The early days of Britain. Celts of Britain -- Barbarians come to Britain -- Beowulf the hero -- Christianity comes to Britain -- The Byzantine empire -- The medieval Indian empire. A King named Skandagupta -- Disc 2. Monks in caves -- Rise of Islam -- Islam becomes an empire -- The great dynasties of China. Yang Chien unites north and south -- Tang dynasty -- 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 -- Four tribes, one empire -- 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 -- Alfred the Great -- The Battle of Hastings --Disc 4. England after the conquest -- Knights and samurai -- The age of Crusades -- 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 -- A new way of living -- France and England at war. Henry V and the Battle of Agincourt -- Joan of Arc -- 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 -- Mansa Musa of Mali -- The Songhay Empire -- India under the Moghuls. The Moghul dynasty -- Akbar of India / The Bad-luck servant -- Exploring new worlds. Christopher Columbus -- Vespucci and Magellan -- The American kingdoms -- The Mayans of Central America -- The marvelous city of Tenochtitlan -- The Incas -- Disc 8. Spain, Portugal, and the New World. The slave trade -- Cortes and Montezuma -- Martin Luther's new ideas -- The Renaissance -- 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 -- Disc 9. Good Queen Bess -- England's greatest playwright. William Shakespeare / Macbeth -- Macbeth's decision -- New ventures to the Americas. Walter Raleigh and the New World -- The Lost Colony -- 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.
Read by Jim Weiss.
A guide to the Middle Ages, covering major historical events during the years 400 to 1600, from the fall of Rome through the rise of the Renaissance.

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