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9. The New World (B. C./Pre-Columban)














Table of Contents | 1. Earth | 2. The Origin of Life and Evolution of Man | 3. Civilisation | 4. Fertile Crescent | 5. Egypt | 6. Indus Valley | 7. Yellow River (Haung He/Huang Ho) | 8. Hittites, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Assyrians | 9. New World (B. C./Pre-Columban) | 10. Greeks and Persians | 11. Rome ( - B. C. - A. D. 96) | 12. The Messiah/Christus, Jesus, James, Simon/Peter, Saul/Paul | 13. Rome ( - A. D. 275) | 14. Rome and Byzantium (Nova Roma) | 15. Islam | 16. Charlemagne | 17. Vikings | 18. Turks, Crusaders, Mongols, Moors, Explorers and Conquistadors | 19. Reformation, Enlightenment (1300s -1700s) | 20. Mid-1700s - early 1900s | 21. The Great War | 22. Inter-War Years | 23. The War in Europe and Africa | 24. Second World War | 25. War in the Pacific | 26. Defeating the Axis in Europe and Africa | 27. End of Japanese Imperialism | 28. Ending the War | 29. Conquest of Space | 30. Averting Nuclear War | 31. End of Empire | 32. Man on the Moon | 33. Arms Race and Limitation | 34. Lifting the Iron Curtain | 35. The 21st Century | 36. Outer Space | 37. | 42.





Continued from previous page, 8. Hittites, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Assyrians

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New World Civilizations

 

The Americas

 

South America

 

Caral, Peru

 

 

 

Lost Pyramids of Caral

 

2002 documentary about 5,000-year-old city found in Peru in 1994

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61x7jHvBcYY&feature=related

 

 

Mesoamerica

 

Giant Olmec head

 

 

    Timeline

 

    Timeline

 

 

 

Olmec

 

 

The Olmecs:

Secrets of the Ancient Olmecs

 

BBC documentary

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A4IKTt1EXY

 

 

The Olmec of Lowland Mexico 

 

Lecture from the Teaching Company (Removed from You Tube)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3fNy-Fif1o

 

 

Museum exhibit

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ_UOgq6LBA&feature=related

 

 

Colossal Olmecs

 

Lecture on archedology in Mesoamerica by Sara Ladron, director of the Museum of Anthropology in Xalapa, Vera Cruz, Mexico, at San Francisco City College, 2009

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdBRvvjKHmg 

 

 

The Burden of Time

 

Episode about Central America from the documentary series Legacy: The Origins of Civilization with Michael Wood

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2Pf5sHJdus&feature=related

 

 

 

Maya

 

Documentary about the Maya from the Engineering an Empire series with Peter Weller

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0e49T8AfkA&feature=related

 

 

Lost Kingdom of the Maya

 

Documentary

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0opS0LAtF8&feature=related

 

 

Maya Code

 

Documentary

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VyqV8hQY8o

 

 

 
















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