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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, 6. Indus Valley

 
 
Yellow River (Haung He/Huang Ho) Valley Civilization
 
 
 

Yellow River

 

Map of modern China. The Yellow River is indicated in dark ink.

 

 

 

The Mandate of Heaven

 

Documentary about China with Michael Wood from the series Legacy: The Origins of Civilization

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXhz1HR7cuE&feature=relmfu

 

 

Chinese Civilization

 

Chinese documentary (2009)

 

Part 1.

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJzuiTOBuT0

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK4ELLP8uEo&feature=relmfu

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL8SnTW_H40&feature=relmfu

 

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwrZ_5m-kw4&feature=relmfu

 

Part 2

 

5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvMMC7b26RQ&feature=relmfu

 

6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aT8oMkC7y4

 

7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXuVm3VVU70&feature=relmfu

 

8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7HVel4qO5Y&feature=relmfu

 

 

Confucius

 

Biography

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAtcVMW1fy0

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWi3fQRWKxA&feature=relmfu

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrRI47mldzg&feature=relmfu

 

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0o6s6wIi6U&feature=relmfu

 

 

Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism in China

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gZY4i4Kg3s&feature=related

 

 

The Transmission of Buddhism from India to China

 

Lecture by Tansen Sen of Baruch College, City University of New York, at the Asian Civilizations Museum in Singpaore (2013?) (54:51)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eohPA5NeTEc

 

 

The First Emperor of China

 

Qin Shi Huang (259 - 210 BC), King of Qin (246 - 221 BC); unified China and became Emperor of China (221 to 210 BC)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb1CcvqJ0gc 

 

 

Timeline of Chinese History

 

Pre-History to Modern Times

 

Source: Conrad Shirokauer and Miranda Brown, A Brief History of Chinese Civilization, 2nd ed. (Belmont: Wadsworth, 2006), xiv-xv.
















 
 
 
Sun-Tzu and the Art of War
 
Discussion on the weekly Thursday BBC radio programme In Our Time
 
Hosted by Melvyn Bragg
 
With guests Hilde De Weerdt, Tim Barrett and Imre Galambos
 
1 March 2018
 
 
 
Art of War
 
History Channel documentary
 
Incomplete documentary (1:13:54) (Upload omits last 18 min.)
 
 
Complete documentary (1:30:33) (audio and video poorly synchronised) 
 
 
 
 
Sun Bin's Art of War
 
Discovering China
 
 
 
 
 

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