The Story of the World : History for the Classical Child. Volume 3. Early Modern Times : From Elizabeth the First to the Forty-Niners

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Call Number: Y BOCD 909.8 Ba V.3, Kids BOCD / Nonfiction / History
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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Unabridged.
Compact discs.
Disc 1. A world of Empires. Holy Roman Empire -- The Rrches of Spain -- Protestant rebellions -- James, king of two countries -- Searching for the Northwest Passage -- Warlords of Japan -- Disc 2. The medieval Indian Empire -- New colonies in the New World -- Spread of Slavery -- The middle of the east. The Persian puzzle -- The Ottoman Turks -- The western war. The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 -- Disc 3. Far East of Europe -- Moghul emperoros of India -- Battle, fire, and plague in England -- Sun King of France -- The rise of Prussia. Frederick, the First Prussian king -- Disc 4. A New World in conflict. War against the colonies : King Philip's war -- War against the colonies : Louis XIV saves France -- William Penn's holy experiment - The west. Universal laws of newton and Locke -- Scientific farming -- Russia looks west. Peter the Great -- Peter's port to the West -- East and West collide -- Disc 5. English in India -- Imperial East -- Fighting over North America -- Revolution! --
Disc 6. The new country. The American constitution -- The first American President (1789-1797) -- Sailing south. Captain Cook reaches Botany Bay -- The convict settlement -- Revolution gone sour. The storming of the Bastille -- The reign of terror -- Catherine the Great. -- Disc 7. A changing world. Steam and coal in Britain -- Cotton and guns in America -- China and the rest of the world. The Kingdom at the center of the world -- Rise of the opium trade -- Rise of Bonaparte -- Freedom in the Carribean. Haitian revolt -- A different kind of rebelion. The wold of the factories -- The Luddites -- The opened West. Lewis and Clark map the West -- Disc 8. Tecumseh's resistance --- The end of Napoleon -- Freedom for South America. Simon Bolivar: the liberator -- Freedom, but not unity -- Mexican independence. The cry of Dolores -- The Republic of Mexico -- The slave trade ends -- Disc 9. Troubled Africa. Zulu kingdom -- The Boers and the British -- American tragedies. The Trail of Tears -- Nat Turner's revolt -- China adrift. The first Opium War -- Mexico and her neighbor. Remember the Alamo -- Mexican-American War -- New Zealand and her rulers. Treaty of Waitangi -- The New Zealand wars -- World of Forty-Nine. The Gold Rush -- World of unrest.
Read by Jim Weiss.
A guide to the Middle Ages, discussing events, people, and practices around the world from 500 to 1500.

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for kids submitted by aparna70 on August 23, 2014, 10:01pm history

Awesome submitted by Bookeepers on July 11, 2021, 8:37am While these are not the most thrilling to listen to, my 8 year old loves them and has learned a lot.