Great Big History Podcast
By Dr. Christopher Gennari
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Episodes: 134
Description
Lecture style Podcast covering Ancient History to Modern world events.
We Cover War and Art
Philosophy and Education
Great Pyramids and Great Walls and why they work (and why they dont)
We cover Gender and Race, Sex and Marriage, Masculinity and Feminism,
We cover David, Dante, and Disneyland
And
We try to relate all of it to us today and analyze what the past has to tell us about ourselves
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S3:E2 – Baltic Wars: Ukraine 2022 - Where Do We Go From Here (Special Episode)
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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S3:E1 – BALTIC WARS! Scandinavia and Baltic 1520-1809
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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S2:E33 – Roman Christianity (Bonus Episode)
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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S2:E32 – Disney Princesses and American Feminism + Fight Club and American Masculinity
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Sep 19, 2021 |
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S2:E31 – American Conservatism - From Wilderness to Dominance
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Sep 19, 2021 |
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S2:E30 – China After World War II - Disaster, Death, Recovery, Success
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Sep 19, 2021 |
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S2:E29 – Africa, Decolonization, Apartheid, Disaster and Recovery
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Sep 19, 2021 |
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S2:E28 – South Asia Partition, War and Recovery
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Sep 19, 2021 |
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S2:E27 – Cold War Kids: A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
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Sep 19, 2021 |
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S2:E26 – World Cinema After World War II
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Sep 19, 2021 |
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S2:E25 – Disneylands and Entertaining the World's Middle Class
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Sep 19, 2021 |
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S2:E24 – World War II and The Death of the European Hegemony
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Sep 19, 2021 |
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S2:E23 – 1930s: Popular Culture -Superman Where are You Now
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Sep 19, 2021 |
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S2:E22 – 1930s: Fascism Hates You
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Sep 19, 2021 |
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S2:E21 – 1930s:Communism and the Stalinist Destruction
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Sep 19, 2021 |
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S2:E20 – 1930s Liberalism: Capitalism is Dead, Long Live "Capitalism"
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Sep 19, 2021 |
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S2:E19 – The Great Depression and the Crisis of the Modern World
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Sep 19, 2021 |
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S2:E18 – 1920s: The Conservative Backlash
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Sep 19, 2021 |
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S2:E17 – 1920's: Liberalism on the Move
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Sep 19, 2021 |
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S2:E16 – The Catastrophe of World War 1
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Sep 19, 2021 |
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S2:E15 – Europe - 1900 to 1915
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Sep 18, 2021 |
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S2:E14 – Imperialism: Europe Takes Over the World
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Sep 18, 2021 |
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S2:E13 – The Industrial Revolution
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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S2:E12 – Political Revolutions: US / France / Haiti
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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S2:E11 – Sweden and the Military Revolution
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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S2:E10 – The Enlightenment Invents Human Rights (Kind of)
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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S2:E9 – Science As Traumatic Reaction to Mass Disaster
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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S2:E8 – The Reformation Breaks Christianity, Empowers the Individual, and Creates Great Catholic Art
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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S2:E7 – Genocide and Slavery in the New World
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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S2:E6 – Discovery, Guns, Money and Conquest of the New World
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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S2:E5 – The Ottoman Turks Could Conquer the World or Lose it All
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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S2:E4 – Trauma and Empire on the Subcontinent - India and the World
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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S2:E3 – Yuan, Ming and Qing China - The Struggle to Define China
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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S2:E2 – A Cook's Tour of the World in 1450
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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S2:E1 – Introduction to Season 2 - Who Wants to Rule the World
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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S1:E33 – Art - Breakthroughs and Reform in Renaissance Europe
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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S1:E32 – Culture, Education and Gender in the European Middle Ages
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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S1:E31 – Vikings Assault Europe and Create a New World
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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S1:E30 – The Last Ride of the Nomadic Armies - Mongols Conquer the World
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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S1:E29 – The Empires of the Caliphate
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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S1:E28 – Arab Women in Early Islam
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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S1:E27 – Early Arabic Islam - Geography and Culture
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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S1:E26 – The Byzantine Empire Tries to Save the Roman World and Loses Itself
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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S1:E25 – West Africa - Connections, War, Culture and Empire
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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S1:E24 – East Africa from the Ancients to Islamic Trade Empire
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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S1:E23 – The Qin try to Restart the World - The Han Builds Bridges to It
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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S1:E22 – Confucius Teaches Us that We Are All Connected
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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S1:E21 – Ancient China Geography and Imperial Legitimacy
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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S1:E20 – Mauryan Empire Unites India then Disintergrates
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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S1:E19 – Buddha, Trauma and Your 8 Fold Path
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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S1:E18 – Indian Subcontinent - Ancient Geography, War and Culture
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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S1:E17 – Collapse of the Roman Empire: War, War, More War
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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S1:E16 – The Reforms of the Early Roman Empire
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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S1:E15 – Dignity, Inequality, and the Collapse of the Roman Republic
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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S1:E14 – Rome Surrounded and Unleashed: How War Created the Republic
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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S1:E13 – The Greeks at War with Persia and then Themselves and then the Edge of the World
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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S1:E12 – The Greek Phalanx and the Democratic World
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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S1:E11 – Ancient Greek Philosophy
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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S1:E10 – Ancient Greek Geography and Culture
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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S1:E9 – Ancient Hebrew War and Trauma
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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S1:E8 – Ancient Hebrew Geography and Culture
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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S1:E7 – The Egyptian Middle Kingdom Gets Conquered and the New Kingdom Gets Revenge
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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S1:E6 – The Old Kingdom was Really Old and Awesome
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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S1:E5 – The Persians Nearly Conquer (and Connect) the World (2021)
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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S1:E4 – The Chariot Revolution, Bronze Age Collapse and the Assyrian Conquest (2021)
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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S1:E3 – Babylon - the stillpoint of the turning world (2021)
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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S1:E2 – Early Settled Societies, Government, War and Religion
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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S1:E1 – Starting Over: Nomadic Civilizations 2021
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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HIS 102_Test 3_Cold War Economics
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Apr 27, 2018 |
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HIS 102_Test 3_Cold War_Politics
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Apr 27, 2018 |
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Great Big History: HIS 102_test 3_Decolonization Africa
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Apr 11, 2018 |
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Great Big History: HIS 102_Test 3_Decolonization China
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Apr 11, 2018 |
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Great Big History: HIS 102_test 3_Decolonization India
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Apr 11, 2018 |
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Great Big History: HIS 102_Test 3_World Cinema
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Apr 08, 2018 |
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Great Big History: HIS 102_Test 3_Television
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Apr 08, 2018 |
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HIS 102_Test 3_American Teenagers
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Apr 08, 2018 |
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HIS 102_Test 3_Disney Princesses and Feminism
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Apr 08, 2018 |
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HIS 102_Test 3_Disneyland and American Optimism (updated)
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Apr 08, 2018 |
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HIS 102_T2_09_WW2
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Mar 15, 2018 |
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HIS 102_T2_09_Popular Culture+Summation of 1930s
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Mar 15, 2018 |
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HIS 102_T2_07_1930s_Western Democracries
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Mar 15, 2018 |
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HIS 102_T2_06_Fascism
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Mar 15, 2018 |
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HIS 102_T2_05_1920s International
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Mar 15, 2018 |
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HIS 102_T2_04_Jazz Age
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Mar 15, 2018 |
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HIS 102_T2_03_Communism
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Mar 15, 2018 |
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HIS 102_T2_02_World War 1
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Mar 15, 2018 |
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HIS 102_T2_01_1900_1915
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Mar 15, 2018 |
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HIS102_Test 1_015_Imperialism_China_India_Japan
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Jan 31, 2018 |
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HIS102_Test _014_Imperialism Intro
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Jan 31, 2018 |
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HIS102_Test 1_013_Industrialization
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Jan 31, 2018 |
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HIS102_Test 1_12_Early Economics
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Jan 31, 2018 |
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HIS102_Test 1_011_Age of Revolution
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Jan 30, 2018 |
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HIS102_test 1_10_enlightenment
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Jan 30, 2018 |
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HIS102_test 1_09_science
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Jan 30, 2018 |
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HIS 102_test 1_08_Reformation
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Jan 30, 2018 |
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HIS 102_test 1_07_ottoman empire_part 2_collapse
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Jan 30, 2018 |
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HIS102_test 1_06_ottoman empire_part 1
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Jan 30, 2018 |
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HIS102_test 1_05_Results of Slavery in the New World, Europe and Africa
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Jan 30, 2018 |
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HIS102_test 1_04_Introduction to Slavery in the New World
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Jan 30, 2018 |
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HIS102_test 1_03_Aztecs, War and Human Sacrifice
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Jan 30, 2018 |
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HIS102_test 1_02_Incas
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Jan 30, 2018 |
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HIS102_test 1_01_Intro_Mayans
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Jan 30, 2018 |
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HIS 101_Part 1_Chariots - the first superweapon
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Dec 20, 2017 |
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HIS 101: Test 3: Arabic Culture and Role of Women
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Nov 16, 2017 |
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HIS 101: Test 3: Early Islamic Caliphates
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Nov 16, 2017 |
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HIS 101: Test 3: Renaissance Art
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Nov 16, 2017 |
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HIS 101: Test 3: Renaissance Education and Marriage
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Nov 16, 2017 |
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HIS 101: Test 3: Byzantine Empire
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Nov 13, 2017 |
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HIS 101: Test 3: west and east africa until 1500
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Nov 13, 2017 |
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HIS 101: Test 3: The Crusades
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Nov 13, 2017 |
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023_HIS101: Weak Enough to Lose the World: Collapse of Roman Empire
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Nov 08, 2017 |
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029_HIS101_China Politics and Dynasties Qin and Han
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Nov 01, 2017 |
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028_HIS101_Confucius
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Nov 01, 2017 |
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027_HIS101_China Geography
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Nov 01, 2017 |
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026_HIS101_Buddhism
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Nov 01, 2017 |
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025_HIS101_Mauryan India
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Nov 01, 2017 |
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024_HIS101_Indian Geography and Early Civs
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Nov 01, 2017 |
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022_HIS101: The City on Seven Hills Edition: The Roman Empire
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Oct 22, 2017 |
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021_HIS101: What Cicero Knew Edition: Collapse of Roman Republic
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Oct 22, 2017 |
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020_HIS101: The Roman Legion and Early Conquests
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Oct 22, 2017 |
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019_HIS101_When in Rome Edition_Roman geography and politics
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Oct 17, 2017 |
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018_HIS101_greek philosophy
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Oct 13, 2017 |
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017_HIS101_greek wars
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Oct 13, 2017 |
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016_HIS 101_greek geography
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Oct 13, 2017 |
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015_It gets worse before it gets better Edition
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Sep 27, 2017 |
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014_Phenominal Cosmic Power, Ity Bity Living Space Edition
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Sep 27, 2017 |
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013_Rollin' Like Moses Edition
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Sep 27, 2017 |
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012_I Need a Hero! Ahmose Edition
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Sep 25, 2017 |
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011_Stuck in the Middle Kingdom Edition
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Sep 25, 2017 |
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010_Bigger Pyramids are Better Edition
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Sep 25, 2017 |
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009_Denial ain't just a River in Egypt
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Sep 25, 2017 |
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008_Everything and the Kitchen Sink, Persian Army Edition
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Sep 25, 2017 |
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007_Cyrus is THE MAN, Edition. Persian Politics
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Sep 25, 2017 |
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000_Why History
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Sep 16, 2017 |