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Ages: 10 - 18
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At its height in the second century A.D., the Roman Empire was the beacon of learning, power, and prosperity in the western world. This ten minute segment of this video series goes into detail about how the actions of the rich to intimate the poor br...ought work to the soldiers who were unemployed at the time. Provides good insights and debate topics as to why this time was called the Dark Ages.
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September 16, 2011 at 11:44 PM
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Ages: 8 - 18
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Medieval Europe
From schooltube.com, produced by dbesozzi at Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake High School
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This six minute video is in the form of a lecture with projected images. It is well done and hits on all the major areas such as Charlemagne's empire lasting from 768- 843 and the kingdom being divided into West Frankish Kingdom, Central Kingdom and ...the East Frankish Kingdom.
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February 13, 2012 at 12:38 PM
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Ages: 8 - 18
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This three minute video uses actors and a narrator to help explain the Byzantine Emperor Justinian's plans to reunite the Roman Empire and how they were thwarted by an unlikely foe.
February 13, 2012 at 01:26 PM
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Ages: 11 - 18
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A lecture and slide presentation video that does an excellent job of explaining this system. Excellent graphics. The video may have to be stopped at times to allow the students to catch-up on all the information presented. A great overview.
June 24, 2012 at 01:15 PM
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Ages: 15 - 18
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At its height in the second century A.D., the Roman Empire was the beacon of learning, trade, power and prosperity in the western world. But the once-powerful Rome, rotten to the core by the fifth century, lay open to barbarian warriors who came in w...ave after wave of invasion, slaughtering, stealing, and ultimately, settling. As chaos replaced culture, Europe was beset by famine, plague, persecutions, and a state of war that was so persistent it was only rarely interrupted by peace. THE DARK AGES profiles those who battled to shape the future, from the warlords whose armies threatened to case the demise of European society, like Alaric, Charles the Hammer, and Clovis. (1:30:45)
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July 31, 2012 at 11:18 AM
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Ages: 12 - 18
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Historian Michael Wood delves through medieval court records to follow the fortunes of a village in Hertfordshire and, more particularly, the family of peasant Christina Cok. The 14th century was a perilous time in British history, shot through with ...famine, plague and war. It was a time of climate change, virulent cattle diseases and, above all, the Black Death. (59:17)
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January 12, 2013 at 04:49 PM
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Ages: 7 - 18
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"European Society in the High Middle Ages, 1200s-1347" is the subject of this ten minute video. This is a lecture with graphics and images to help the students understand this time period. There is a lot here and so stopping the video to review the m...aterial might be a good idea.
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October 3, 2011 at 11:18 PM
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Ages: 10 - 18
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In the fourteenth century, bubonic plague swept through Europe, decimating the population. Where did it originate? How was it spread? Discover more about it in this documentary from History's Turning Points. Included are recreated scenes depicting... Tartar forces, led by Kipchak khan Janibeg, catapulting plague-ridden corpses into the besieged city of Kaffa. That action set-up the spread of Black Death to Genoa (and, from there, to the rest of Europe). (25:04)
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April 17, 2010 at 03:20 PM
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Ages: 12 - 18
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The vision of European medieval women that has emerged in the popular imagination is one of idealized caricature. These women were, instead,
full participants in life, good and bad.Aprofessional video with slides and narration.
May 21, 2010 at 12:03 PM
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Ages: 12 - 18
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Out of the 14th century has emerged one of the notable voices
articulating an early vision of full participation in the social and
political life for women--the proto-feminist, Christine de Pizan.
May 21, 2010 at 12:05 PM
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