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The Greeks and Persians
How the clash between Greeks and Persians in 5BC was recorded in stories and poems
Ancient Athens
Athens' extraordinary creative outburst in politics drama philosophy and the visual arts
Ancient Rome
How Rome grew from a shanty town to the centre of the world's largest empire
The Renaissance
The Italian artistic achievement and intellectual innovation that started the Renaissance
The Golden Age of Islam
The poetry, learning, and science of the 7th Century civilisation that grew out of Islam
The Colonial Experience
Christopher Columbus, Hernan Cortez, and the arrogance of conquest
The Enlightenment
The rise of reason, science, tolerance, and liberty in 18th Century France
Judaism and Christianity
Christianity's intellectual and spiritual debt to Judaism
The Victorian Age
How cotton, coal, iron, steam, and sweat, gave birth of the industrial revolution
The 20th Century
The descent of European civilisation into dictatorship, war, and unprecedented genocide
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