The Story of "Civilization"
Jiang Xueqin tells the entire story of humanity, from the Ice Age to the Pax Americana.
Curated by: Predictive History (63 videos)
Tracks in this Playlist
- Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture
- Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society
- Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination
- Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas
- Civilization #5: The Yamnaya Conquest of Europe
- Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse
- Civilization #7: Homer's Iliad and the Birth of Greek Civilization
- Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War
- Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy
- Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave
- Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon
- Civilization #12: The Tyranny of Alexander the Great
- Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy
- Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome
- Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar
- Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire
- Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome
- Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project
- Civilization #19: Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia's Quest for Immortality
- Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization
- Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel
- Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist
- Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah
- Civilization #24: Resurrecting the Gnostic Jesus
- Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome
- Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution
- Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God
- Civilization #28: Muhammad's Revolution of God
- Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination
- Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer
- Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History
- Civilization #32: Rome's Rise, Fall, and Legacy
- Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire
- Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire
- Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy
- Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse
- Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam
- Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom
- Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer
- Civilization #40: Church and Empire
- Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution
- Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism
- Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World
- Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution
- Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason
- Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre
- Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth
- Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class
- Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia!
- Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire
- Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy
- Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia
- Civilization #54: The German Will to Power
- Civilization #55: Kant, Hegel, and the Theory of Everything
- Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong
- Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything
- Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa)
- Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State
- Civilization #59: The Man of Steel
- Civilization #END: The Decline and Fall of the American Empire
- Civilization BONUS: Meet Professor Jiang
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