Eras & Topics
This video covers: A look at the two calendars; the Tzolk'in and the Haab and how important they were to the Maya people.
This video covers: How William Harvey discovered circulation; how blood flowed around the body.
This video covers: A look at the various trading companies that grew up including the East India Company, the Virginia Company and...
This video covers: A description of the Maya building techniques and the tools they used
This video covers: Medicine, doctors, midwives and healers; also a look at the illnesses and treatments they used.
This video covers: Some of the challenges faced by Maya farmers and how they overcame them with raised terraces, aqueducts and...
This video covers: A look at some of the reasons why the Maya civilization may have disappeared
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This video covers: A description of the crops the Maya grow and the food they ate.
This video covers: Galen explains what the four humours are and how they could be balanced to make people better.
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This history video covers: how the Anglo Saxons originated from Germania and travelled to England with the Roman legions and stayed...
This video covers: An overview of life for an ordinary Maya family; work, school, child punishments!
This video covers: Details of a typical Ancient Maya home and the things they used
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A description of a thegn warrior serving King Athestan; the armour he wears and his weapons such as the kite...
This video covers: An outline of some of the gods the Ancient Maya worshop and their practice of human sacrifice
This video covers: A look at why the Ancient Maya believed in sacrifice and how they carried it out - not too gruesome but for the...
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This video covers: A description of ulama, the Ancient Maya sport played in a ball court.
This video covers: An eye-witness account, by a monk, of the savage attack on St Cuthbert's church on the Holy Island, Lindisfarne...
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This video covers: An explanation of BC and AD as well as BCE and CE and the reasons they are used.
This video covers - A Viking's account of their raid on Lindisfarne monastary, explaining how they had watched and planned their...
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A description of how the Saxons changed from worshiping pagan gods to becoming Christian after Pope Gregory sent...