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Ancient World

14 recaps

EVENTWestern Mediterranean

264 to 146 BCE

The Punic Wars

Western Mediterranean

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7 minAudioAncient World

EVENTAthens, Greece

508 to 322 BCE

The Rise of Athenian Democracy

Athens, Greece

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7 minAudioAncient World

EVENTAttica, Greece

490 BCE

The Battle of Marathon

Attica, Greece

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8 minAudioAncient World

EVENTRome

44 BCE

The Assassination of Julius Caesar

Rome

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BOOKAncient World

The Peloponnesian War

by Donald Kagan

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EVENTBabylon, Mesopotamia

c. 1754 BCE

The Code of Hammurabi

Babylon, Mesopotamia

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EVENTGiza, Egypt

c. 2560 BCE

The Building of the Great Pyramid

Giza, Egypt

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EVENTGreece, Persia, Egypt, and Central Asia

336 to 323 BCE

The Conquests of Alexander the Great

Greece, Persia, Egypt, and Central Asia

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EVENTSouth Asia

c. 268 to 232 BCE

The Reign of Ashoka

South Asia

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EVENTChina

230 to 221 BCE

The Qin Unification of China

China

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BOOKAncient World

The Fall of the Roman Empire

by Peter Heather

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BOOKAncient World

Persian Fire

by Tom Holland

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BOOKAncient World

SPQR: How Rome Argued Itself Into Existence

by Mary Beard

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4 minAudioAncient World

EVENTRoman Italy (Bay of Naples)

79 CE

Pompeii and the Eruption of Vesuvius

Roman Italy (Bay of Naples)

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3 minAudioAncient World

Medieval

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EVENTFrance and England

1337 to 1453

The Hundred Years War

France and England

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7 minAudioMedieval

BOOKMedieval

The Inheritance of Rome

by Chris Wickham

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EVENTEngland and Normandy

1066

The Norman Conquest of England

England and Normandy

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7 minAudioMedieval

BOOKMedieval

A Distant Mirror

by Barbara W. Tuchman

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EVENTScandinavia, the North Atlantic, and Eastern Europe

793 to 1066

The Viking Age

Scandinavia, the North Atlantic, and Eastern Europe

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8 minAudioMedieval

EVENTEurope and the Levant

1095 to 1099

The First Crusade

Europe and the Levant

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7 minAudioMedieval

EVENTFrancia

732

The Battle of Tours

Francia

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EVENTIberian Peninsula

711 to 1492

The Reconquista

Iberian Peninsula

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EVENTRome and Constantinople

1054

The Great Schism of 1054

Rome and Constantinople

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EVENTIraq and the wider Islamic world

c. 750 to 1258

The Golden Age of Baghdad

Iraq and the wider Islamic world

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BOOKMedieval

The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England

by Ian Mortimer

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EVENTEurope, North Africa, and the Near East

1347 to 1351

The Black Death in Europe

Europe, North Africa, and the Near East

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EVENTEngland

1215

The Sealing of Magna Carta

England

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4 minAudioMedieval

EVENTEastern Mediterranean

1453

The Fall of Constantinople

Eastern Mediterranean

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4 minAudioMedieval

Early Modern

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EVENTThe Atlantic world

1492 onward

The Columbian Exchange

The Atlantic world

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8 minAudioEarly Modern

EVENTHoly Roman Empire

1648

The Peace of Westphalia

Holy Roman Empire

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8 minAudioEarly Modern

BOOKEarly Modern

1491

by Charles C. Mann

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EVENTHoly Roman Empire and northern Europe

1517 to 1555

The Protestant Reformation

Holy Roman Empire and northern Europe

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7 minAudioEarly Modern

EVENTThe English Channel and the North Atlantic

1588

The Spanish Armada

The English Channel and the North Atlantic

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8 minAudioEarly Modern

EVENTEngland, Scotland, and Ireland

1642 to 1651

The English Civil War

England, Scotland, and Ireland

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EVENTThe Dutch Republic

c. 1588 to 1672

The Dutch Golden Age

The Dutch Republic

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EVENTMassachusetts, British North America

1692 to 1693

The Salem Witch Trials

Massachusetts, British North America

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EVENTThe Indian Ocean and East Africa

1405 to 1433

The Voyages of Zheng He

The Indian Ocean and East Africa

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EVENTJapan

1603 to 1868

The Tokugawa Shogunate

Japan

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BOOKEarly Modern

The Verge

by Patrick Wyman

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BOOKEarly Modern

The Reformation

by Diarmaid MacCulloch

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EVENTMainz, Holy Roman Empire

c. 1440 to 1455

Gutenberg and the Printing Revolution

Mainz, Holy Roman Empire

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3 minAudioEarly Modern

Modern Era

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BOOKModern Era

The Age of Extremes

by Eric Hobsbawm

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EVENTUnited States and the Moon

July 1969

The Apollo 11 Moon Landing

United States and the Moon

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7 minAudioModern Era

EVENTBerlin, East Germany

November 1989

The Fall of the Berlin Wall

Berlin, East Germany

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BOOKModern Era

Postwar

by Tony Judt

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EVENTUnited States and worldwide

1929 to 1939

The Great Depression

United States and worldwide

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8 minAudioModern Era

EVENTSan Francisco and worldwide

1945

The Founding of the United Nations

San Francisco and worldwide

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8 minAudioModern Era

EVENTWestern Europe and the United States

1948 to 1952

The Marshall Plan

Western Europe and the United States

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7 minAudioModern Era

EVENTUnited States and the Soviet Union

1957 to 1975

The Space Race

United States and the Soviet Union

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7 minAudioModern Era

EVENTUnited States

1954 to 1968

The Civil Rights Movement

United States

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EVENTSoviet Union and Eastern Europe

1989 to 1991

The Collapse of the Soviet Union

Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

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7 minAudioModern Era

EVENTWorldwide

1918 to 1920

The 1918 Influenza Pandemic

Worldwide

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8 minAudioModern Era

BOOKModern Era

Say Nothing

by Patrick Radden Keefe

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BOOKModern Era

The Guns of August: How a Continent Talked Itself Into Catastrophe

by Barbara W. Tuchman

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EVENTCuba, United States, Soviet Union

October 1962

The Cuban Missile Crisis

Cuba, United States, Soviet Union

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4 minAudioModern Era

EVENTFrance

1789 to 1799

The French Revolution

France

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3 minAudioModern Era

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EVENTLondon and Oxford

1928 to 1945

The Discovery of Penicillin

London and Oxford

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BOOK

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

by Thomas S. Kuhn

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EVENTRussia

1917

The Russian Revolution

Russia

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EVENTSouth Asia

1947

The Partition of India

South Asia

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BOOK

Empire of Cotton

by Sven Beckert

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BOOK

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

by Richard Rhodes

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EVENTUnited States and Europe

1969 to 1991

The Birth of the Internet

United States and Europe

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EVENTFrance and Europe

1769 to 1821

Napoleon Bonaparte

France and Europe

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EVENTEurasia

1206 to 1279

The Mongol Conquests

Eurasia

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EVENTAfrica and Europe

1884 to 1914

The Scramble for Africa

Africa and Europe

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BOOK

The Silk Roads

by Peter Frankopan

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EVENTChina and Central Asia

206 BCE to 220 CE

The Han Dynasty

China and Central Asia

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EVENTEastern Mediterranean, the Balkans, and the Near East

1520 to 1566

The Ottoman Empire under Suleiman

Eastern Mediterranean, the Balkans, and the Near East

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EVENTMexico

1519 to 1521

The Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire

Mexico

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EVENTSouth Asia

1556 to 1605

The Mughal Empire under Akbar

South Asia

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EVENTWest Africa, the Americas, and Europe

16th to 19th centuries

The Atlantic Slave Trade

West Africa, the Americas, and Europe

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EVENTChina and Britain

1839 to 1860

The Opium Wars

China and Britain

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BOOK

The Anarchy

by William Dalrymple

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EVENTBritish North America

1765 to 1783

The American Revolution

British North America

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EVENTSaint-Domingue, Caribbean

1791 to 1804

The Haitian Revolution

Saint-Domingue, Caribbean

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BOOK

Citizens

by Simon Schama

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EVENTEngland and the Dutch Republic

1688

The Glorious Revolution

England and the Dutch Republic

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EVENTSpanish and Portuguese America

1808 to 1833

The Latin American Wars of Independence

Spanish and Portuguese America

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EVENTEurope

1848

The Revolutions of 1848

Europe

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EVENTChina

1911 to 1949

The Chinese Revolution

China

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EVENTIran

1978 to 1979

The Iranian Revolution

Iran

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EVENTJapan

1868

The Meiji Restoration

Japan

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BOOK

The Age of Revolution

by Eric Hobsbawm

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BOOK

A People's Tragedy

by Orlando Figes

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EVENTCentral Europe

1618 to 1648

The Thirty Years War

Central Europe

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EVENTSouthern Russia

1942 to 1943

The Battle of Stalingrad

Southern Russia

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EVENTEurope, the Middle East, and Africa

1914 to 1918

The First World War

Europe, the Middle East, and Africa

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EVENTEurope and North Africa

1939 to 1945

The Second World War in Europe

Europe and North Africa

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EVENTBelgium

1815

The Battle of Waterloo

Belgium

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EVENTUnited States

1861 to 1865

The American Civil War

United States

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EVENTNormandy, France

June 1944

The Normandy Landings

Normandy, France

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EVENTKorean Peninsula

1950 to 1953

The Korean War

Korean Peninsula

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EVENTVietnam, Laos, and Cambodia

1955 to 1975

The Vietnam War

Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia

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BOOK

The Sleepwalkers

by Christopher Clark

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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

by William L. Shirer

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EVENTEurope

1543 to 1687

The Copernican Revolution

Europe

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EVENTEurope and the Atlantic world

c. 1685 to 1815

The Enlightenment

Europe and the Atlantic world

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EVENTMesopotamia

c. 3400 BCE

The Invention of Writing

Mesopotamia

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EVENTBritain

1859

The Publication of On the Origin of Species

Britain

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EVENTCambridge and London

1953

The Discovery of DNA's Structure

Cambridge and London

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EVENTEurope

1850s to 1890s

The Germ Theory of Disease

Europe

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EVENTFrance

1751 to 1772

The Encyclopedie

France

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BOOK

The Dawn of Everything

by David Graeber and David Wengrow

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BOOK

The Invention of Nature

by Andrea Wulf

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EVENTPtolemaic Egypt

69 to 30 BCE

Cleopatra VII of Egypt

Ptolemaic Egypt

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EVENTSouth Africa

1918 to 2013

Nelson Mandela

South Africa

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BOOK

Team of Rivals

by Doris Kearns Goodwin

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EVENTMongolia and Eurasia

c. 1162 to 1227

Genghis Khan

Mongolia and Eurasia

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EVENTItaly and France

1452 to 1519

Leonardo da Vinci

Italy and France

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EVENTEngland

1533 to 1603

Elizabeth I

England

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EVENTPoland and France

1867 to 1934

Marie Curie

Poland and France

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EVENTSouth Africa and India

1869 to 1948

Mahatma Gandhi

South Africa and India

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BOOK

Alexander Hamilton

by Ron Chernow

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BOOK

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot

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