Early modern Europe: Did you mean...?

The Town Meeting was a unique form of local participation in government that became popular in New England. This video goes into detail as to how this phenomenon developed, its limitations, and...

Historian and Professor David Potter (University of Michigan) discusses his latest book Master of Rome: A Life of Julius Caesar (published August 2025). He explores the mysteries of Caesar's...

Map of Asia Minor in the early 1st century CE with the Kingdom of Commagene as a Roman client state.

More free lessons at: http://www.khanacademy.org/video?v=T0fq3XFfxrY Veristic male portrait, early 1st Century B.C.E., marble life size (Vatican Museums, Rome) Speakers...

Examines the rise of civilization in the Tigris-Euphrates valley in the Middle East. These early civilizations formed around major rivers - the Tigris and Euphrates in Mesopotamia and the Nile...

Ravenna was the seat of the Roman Empire in the 5th century and then of Byzantine Italy until the 8th century. It has a unique collection of early Christian mosaics and monuments. Source: UNESCO...

More free lessons at: http://www.khanacademy.org/video?v=C3cwGCezgSQ Athanadoros, Hagesandros, and Polydoros of Rhodes, Laocoön and his Sons, early first century C.E., marble, 7'10 1/2" high (Vatican Museums...

Early Cycladic 'violin' figurines in marble, 3200-2800 BCE. The figurines represent a squatting female figure but their exact significance is not known. Most probably they represent a female fertility deity. (National Archaeological...

Ancient Egyptian depiction of an early instance of cow domestication.

In this video podcast, we'll take a look at one of the most overlooked peoples of ancient history, the Medes, and reconstruct their early history using Assyrian, Babylonian...