Turning Points in Modern History (Great Courses) (Teaching Company) DVD (Course Number 8032)

24 Lectures 1433-The Great Voyages of Admiral Zheng He 1453-The Fall of Constantinople 1455-Gutenberg's Print Revolution 1492-The Columbian Exchange 1600-The British East India Company 1648-The Treaty of Westphalia 1676-Van Leeuwenhoek's Microscope 1751-Diderot's Enlightenment Encyclopedia 1787-The American Experiment 1789-The French Revolution 1838-The British Slavery Abolition Act 1839-The Opium War in China 1859-Darwin and the Origin of Species 1869-Binding Continents 1893-First Women Voters in New Zealand 1896-The Invention of Motion Pictures 1903-Kitty Hawk and Powered Flight 1904-The Russo-Japanese War 1928-The Discovery of Penicillin 1942-The Dawn of the Atom 1969-Walking on the Moon 1972-China Enters the World Balance 1989-The Fall of the Berlin Wall 2004-The Rise of Social Media