Crash Course World History
Date de parution : 26 janvier 2012
 | Saison 1 - épisode 1 | Mesopotamia In which John presents Mesopotamia, and the early civilizations that arose around the Fertile Crescent. Topics covered include the birth of... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 2 | Ancient Egypt In which John covers the long, long history of ancient Egypt, including the Old, Middle and New Kingdoms, and even a couple of intermediate periods.... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 3 | The Persians & Greeks In which John compares and contrasts Greek civilization and the Persian Empire. Of course we're glad that Greek civilization spawned modern western... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 4 | Buddha & Ashoka In which John relates a condensed history of India, post-Indus Valley Civilization. John explores Hinduism and the origins of Buddhism. He also gets... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 5 | 2,000 Years of Chinese History! The Mandate of Heaven & Confucius In which John introduces you to quite a lot of Chinese history by discussing the complicated relationship between the Confucian scholars who wrote... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 6 | Alexander the Great and the Situation... the Great? In which you are introduced to the life and accomplishments of Alexander the Great, his empire, his horse Bucephalus, the empires that came after... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 7 | The Silk Road & Ancient Trade The Silk Road and Ancient Trade: In which John Green teaches you about the so-called Silk Road, a network of trade routes where goods such as ivory,... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 8 | The Roman Empire. Or Republic. Or... Which Was It? In which John Green explores exactly when Rome went from being the Roman Republic to the Roman Empire. Here's a hint: it had something to do with... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 9 | Christianity from Judaism to the Constantine In which John Green teaches you the history of Christianity, from the beginnings of Judaism and the development of monotheism, right up to Paul and... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 10 | Fall of the Roman Empire... in the 15th Century In which John Green teaches you about the fall of the Roman Empire, which happened considerably later than you may have been told. While the Western... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 11 | Islam, the Quran, and the Five Pillars All Without a Flamewar In which John Green teaches you the history of Islam, including the revelation of the Qu'ran to Muhammad, the five pillars of Islam, how the Islamic... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 12 | The Dark Ages... How Dark Were They, Really? John Green teaches you about the so-called Dark Ages, which it turns out weren't as uniformly dark as you may have been led to believe. While Europe... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 13 | The Crusades - Pilgrimage or Holy War In which John Green teaches you about the Crusades embarked upon by European Christians in the 12th and 13th centuries. Our traditional perception... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 14 | Mansa Musa & Islam in Africa In which John Green teaches you about Sub-Saharan Africa! So, what exactly was going on there? It turns out, it was a lot of trade, converting to... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 15 | Wait For It... The Mongols! In which John Green teaches you, at long last, about the most exceptional bunch of empire-building nomads in the history of the world, the Mongols!... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 16 | International Commerce, Snorkeling Camels, & The Indian Ocean Trade In which John Green teaches you the history of the Indian Ocean Trade. John weaves a tale of swashbuckling adventure, replete with trade in books,... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 17 | Venice & The Ottoman Empire In which John Green discusses the strange and mutually beneficial relationship between a republic, the citystate of Venice, and an Empire, the... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 18 | Russia, The Kievan Rus, and the Mongols In which John Green teaches you how Russia evolved from a loose amalgamation of medieval principalities known as the Kievan Rus into the thriving... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 19 | Columbus, de Gama, and Zheng He! 15th Century Mariners In which John Green teaches you about the beginning of the so-called Age of Discovery. You've probably heard of Christopher Columbus, who... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 20 | The Renaissance... Was it a Thing? In which John Green teaches you about the European Renaissance. European learning changed the world in the 15th and 16th century, but was it a... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 21 | The Columbian Exchange In which John Green teaches you about the changes wrought by contact between the Old World and the New. John does this by exploring the totally... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 22 | The Atlantic Slave Trade In which John Green teaches you about one of the least funny subjects in history: slavery. John investigates when and where slavery originated, how... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 23 | The Spanish Empire, Silver, and Runaway Inflation In which John Green explores how Spain went from being a middling European power to one of the most powerful empires on Earth, thanks to their... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 24 | The Seven Years War In which John teaches you about the Seven Years War, which may have lasted nine years. Or as many as 23. It was a very confusing was. The Seven... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 25 | The Amazing Life and Strange Death of Captain Cook In which John Green teaches you about the life and death of one of history's great explorers, Captain James Cook of the British Navy. He charted... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 26 | Tea, Taxes, and The American Revolution In which John Green teaches you about the American Revolution and the American Revolutionary War, which it turns out were two different things. John... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 27 | The French Revolution In which John Green examines the French Revolution, and gets into how and why it differed from the American Revolution. Was it the serial... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 28 | Haitian Revolutions Ideas like liberty, freedom, and self-determination were hot stuff in the late 18th century, as evidenced by our recent revolutionary videos.... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 29 | Latin American Revolutions In which John Green talks about the many revolutions of Latin America in the 19th century. At the beginning of the 1800s, Latin America was firmly... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 30 | Coal, Steam, and The Industrial Revolution In which John Green wraps up revolutions month with what is arguably the most revolutionary of modern revolutions, the Industrial Revolution. While... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 31 | Capitalism and Socialism In which John Green teaches you about capitalism and socialism in a way that is sure to please commenters from both sides of the debate. Learn how... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 32 | Samurai, Daimyo, Matthew Perry, and Nationalism In which John Green teaches you about Nationalism. Nationalism was everywhere in the 19th century, as people all over the world carved new... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 33 | Imperialism In which John Green teaches you about European Imperialism in the 19th century. European powers started to create colonial empires way back in the... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 34 | Archdukes, Cynicism, and World War I In which John Green teaches you about the war that was supposed to end all wars. Instead, it solved nothing and set the stage for the world to be... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 35 | Communists, Nationalists, and China's Revolutions In which John Green teaches you about China's Revolutions. While the rest of the world was off having a couple of World Wars, China was busily... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 36 | World War II In which John Green teaches you about World War II, aka The Great Patriotic War, aka The Big One. So how did this war happen? And what does it mean?... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 37 | USA vs USSR Fight! The Cold War In which John Green teaches you about the Cold War, which was occasionally hot, but on average, it was cool. In the sense of its temperature. It was... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 38 | Decolonization and Nationalism Triumphant In which John Green teaches you about the post-World War II breakup of most of the European empires. As you'll remember from previous installments... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 39 | Globalization I - The Upside In which John Green teaches you about globalization, a subject so epic, so, um, global, it requires two videos. In this video, John follows the... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 40 | Globalization II - Good or Bad? In which John asks whether globalization is a net positive for humanity. While the new global economy has created a lot of wealth, and lifted a lot... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 1 | Rethinking Civilization In which John Green returns to teaching World History! This week, we'll be talking about the idea of civilization, some of the traditional hallmarks... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 2 | Money & Debt In which John Green teaches about filthy, filthy lucre. Money. And Debt. So, what is money? And what is it for? And why do we use money? And why... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 3 | Disease! In which John Green teaches you about disease, and the effects that disease has had in human history. Disease has been with man since the beginning,... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 4 | War & Human Nature In which John Green teaches you about war! Specifically, John talks about whether humanity is naturally warlike, hard-wired to kill, or if perhaps... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 5 | War and Civilization In which John Green investigates war, and what exactly it may or may not be good for. Was war a result of human beings organizing into larger and... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 6 | Climate Change, Chaos, and The Little Ice Age In which John Green teaches you about the Little Ice Age. The Little Ice Age was a period of global cooling that occurred from the 13th to the 19th... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 7 | Humans and Energy In which Stan Muller subs for John Green and teaches you about energy and humanity. Today we discuss the ideas put forth by Alfred Crosby in his... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 8 | Drought and Famine In which John Green teaches you a little bit about drought, which is a natural weather phenomenon, and famine, which is almost always the result of... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 9 | HOW World War I Started In which John Green teaches you about World War I and how it got started. Crash Course doesn't usually talk much about dates, but the way that... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 10 | Who Started World War I In which John Green teaches you WHY World War I started. Or tries to anyway. With this kind of thing, it's kind of hard to assign blame to any one... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 11 | The End of Civilization (In the Bronze Age) In which John Green teaches you about the Bronze Age civilization in what we today call the middle east, and how the vast, interconnected... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 12 | The Rise of the West and Historical Methodology In which John Green talks about the methods of writing history by looking at some of the ways that history has been written about the rise of the... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 13 | Asian Responses to Imperialism In which John Green teaches you about Imperialism, but not from the perspective of the colonizers. This week John looks at some Asian perspectives... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 14 | The Railroad Journey and the Industrial Revolution In which John Green teaches you about railroads, and some of the ways they changed the world, and how they were a sort of microcosm for the... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 15 | Population, Sustainability, and Malthus In which John Green teaches you about population. So, how many people can reasonably live on the Earth? Thomas Malthus got it totally wrong in the... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 16 | Islam and Politics In which John Green teaches you about how Islam has interacted with politics during it's history, and how it continues to do so today. Islamist... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 17 | The Mughal Empire and Historical Reputation In which John Green teaches you about the Mughal Empire, which ruled large swaths of the Indian Sub-Continent from 1526 to (technically) 1857. While... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 18 | Luther and the Protestant Reformation In which John Green teaches you about the Protestant Reformation. Prior to the Protestant Reformation, pretty much everyone in Europe was a Roman... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 19 | Charles V and the Holy Roman Empire In which John Green teaches you about the Holy Roman Empire by teaching you about Charles V. Charles Hapsburg was the holy Roman Emperor, but he was... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 20 | World War II, A War for Resources In which John Green teaches you about World War II, and some of the causes behind the war. In a lot of ways, WWII was about resources, and... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 21 | Congo and Africa's World War In which John Green teaches you about the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which used to be Zaire, which used to be The Belgian Congo, which used... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 22 | Water and Classical Civilizations In which John Green teaches you about water! So, we talk about resources a lot on Crash Course, and today is no exception. It turns out people can't... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 23 | Conflict in Israel and Palestine In which John Green teaches you about conflict in Israel and Palestine. This conflict is often cast as a long-term beef going back thousands of... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 24 | The Vikings! In which John Green teaches you about Vikings! That's right, one of our most requested subjects, the Vikings, right here on Crash Course. So what's... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 25 | War and Nation Building in Latin America In which John Green teaches you about nation building and nationalism in Latin America. Sometimes, the nations of Latin America get compared to the... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 26 | Iran's Revolution(s) In which John Green teaches you about Iran's Revolutions. Yes, revolutions plural. What was the1979 Iranian Revolution about? It turns out, Iran has... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 27 | Japan in the Heian Period and Cultural History In which John Green teaches you about what westerners call the middle ages and the lives of the aristocracy...in Japan. The Heian period in Japan... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 28 | Nonviolence and Peace Movements In which John Green teaches you about nonviolence and peace movements in the 20th century. What is nonviolence? What is a peace movement? Well.... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 29 | Capitalism and the Dutch East India Company In which John Green teaches you about the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, doing business as the VOC, also known as the Dutch East India Company.... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 30 | Democracy, Authoritarian Capitalism, and China In which John Green teaches you about the end of World History, and the end of the world as we know it, kind of. For the last hundred years or so,... |
