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The World Was Never the Same: Events That Changed History
- Narrated by: J. Rufus Fears
- Length: 18 hrs and 13 mins
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Summary
History is made and defined by landmark events - moments that irrevocably changed the course of human civilization. They have given us
- spiritual and political ideas;
- catastrophic battles and wars;
- scientific and technological advances;
- world leaders both influential and monstrous; and
- cultural works of unparalleled beauty.
Now a series of 36 captivating lectures explores some of the most important and definitive events in the history of the world - events after which our world would never be the same.
Taught by a remarkably gifted teacher with more than 25 teaching awards to his credit, these lectures form an intriguing and engaging tour of thousands of years of human history, from the creation of the Code of Hammurabi to the Battle of Lexington to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech and beyond. It's a chance for you to gain new insights about world history from a truly riveting historian.
Using his expert knowledge and impressive ability to draw out invaluable lessons from the past, Professor Fears has chosen the events he discusses based on three criteria: how the event in itself fundamentally changed history, how the aftermath of the event changed history, and how the event and its impact still resonate with us today.
The result is a comprehensive and authoritative selection of subjects, each of which played a crucial role in transforming human civilization. Whether the event is an obvious or not-so-obvious choice, Professor Fears takes great care to tie each to the 21st century, pointing out just how influential these and other moments were in shaping who we are and how we live.
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- martygriff
- 21-12-21
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Can not believe Napolean was not in a lecture. like it regardless even if I disagree with 1 or 2
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- Douglas
- 30-04-14
Excellent Start
What made the experience of listening to The World Was Never the Same: Events That Changed History the most enjoyable?
This course had a great start, he covered a wide range of topics and covered a wide range of countries. The only problem I found with this lecturer was when he started talking about the U.S. He is very patriotic and this comes across clearly in his lectures, particularly when he started talking about events that mainly just affected America whilst claiming it changed the entire world, as in his words "the U.S.A. is the defender of all that is good in the world".
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- nathan
- 08-02-22
worth it
Great course and great performance from lecturer if a little biased at some points
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- jerome
- 19-12-22
Best
Rufus Fears is the best lecturer on the great courses could listen to him forever 😎👍
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- Maistracc
- 06-08-18
Great listen
A bit U S focused in the last 3rd, but worth it. Fears has particular style that bothers some people. I like him
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- Ajp68
- 18-10-21
a biased selection of historical events
the subjects whilst informative, in the main are too American, Christian biased for international consumption
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- LizzyH
- 07-12-23
Title doesn't suit the book
Too much bias based on religion rather than factual history, title really doesn't fit with the book.
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- Peter Craig
- 13-04-15
Extremely disappointing.
This is the only book in this series that has disappointed. While the identified events are mostly interesting he (author and narrator) disappears into being an apologist for American exceptionalism. It was so bad it made me turn it off and I will be deleting the book from my library and hopefully getting a substitute from Audible. If a member of the Tea Party buy it otherwise give it a complete miss.
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- Andrew Simpson
- 03-01-23
Too much bias
I've enjoyed most great courses so far so this was definitely a disappointment. The lecturer is sometimes inaccurate and seems to be highly biased in his view of the US and Christianity. This wouldn't be too bad towards the end of the course and more recent history but it's present right from the start.
By itself this is fine if it was expressed as a viewpoint but it's not presented this way. The fact that I've noticed a number of inaccuracies despite only a limited knowledge of the first parts of the course just makes it worse.
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- "jamesbell43"
- 09-07-23
Skeptical of accuracy
Good grief! I was enjoying this, and had assumed that the history was relatively mainstream, until the lecture on Jesus. Then one of those things happens that you really wish hadn’t. The history is exceptionally unusual (assertions of historicity of census in luke, made up detail regarding it, authorship of mark) without any acknowledgement that these interpretations are miles away from scholarly consensus. This undermined my confidence in the accuracy of any of it. And I stopped listening.
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