The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge

Burning of Rome by Robert Hubert

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Total running time: 5 hours, 22 minutes
DNW Pompeii waterway with stepping stones, public domain image

01 – The Roman World

02 – A Great World Power

03 – Voyage and Shipwreck

04 – The Tragedy of Nero

05 – The Great Fire in Rome

06 – The Destruction of Pompeii

07 – Marcus Aurelius

Rome, Franz Theodor Aerni

08 – Decline of the Roman Empire

09 – Christians to the Lions

The Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer by Gerome

10 – A New Rome

11 – The Armies of the North

12 – The Dark Ages

13 – King Arthur and His Knights

Boys King Arthur, N.C. Wyeth, p246

14 – The Hero of Two Nations

15 – The Hardy Northmen

16 – How the Northmen Conquered England

17 – A Spanish Hero

18 – The First Crusade

Crusaders, Bosphorus, first crusade

19 – Frederick Barbarossa

20 – The Third Crusade

21 – The Days of Chivalry

22 – Queen of the Adratic

23 – The Story of Marco Polo

24 – Dante’s Great Poem

25 – The Maid of Orleans

Joan of arc interrogation

26 – The Sea of Darkness

27 – Prince Henry, the Sailor

28 – A Famous Voyage

29 – The Invention of Printing

engraving of a printer using the Gutenberg press, c. 15th century

30 – The Stormy Cape

31 – Vasco Da Gama’s Great Voyage

32 – India at Last

33 – The New Trade-Route

34 – Golden Goa

The Landing of Columbus by Bierstadt

35 – Christopher Columbus

36 – The Last of the Moors

37 – Discovery of the New World

38 – The West Indies

39 – Columbus in Chains

40 – A Great Mistake

41 – Follow the Leader

42 – Discovery of the Pacific

43 – Magellan’s Great Plan

First map of the straits of Magellan, by Antonio Pigafetta, 1520

44 – Magellan’s Straits

45 – Round the World

46 – The Finding of Mexico

The Meeting of Cortés and Montezuma

47 – Montezuma

48 – Siege and Fall of Mexico

49 – Conquest of Peru

50 – A Great Awakening

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