For use in illustrated lectures which you design, this disc provides instant access to a vast collection of 3,936 still images and 53 motion picture sequences. You decide which of the images you want to use, and in what order you want them to appear. You are in complete control of the presentation.

Select one of the following topics:

• Description
• Table of Contents

The videodisc comes with a 428-page guide book, containing a caption for every image or film sequence. Each caption has a barcode to call that item to the TV screen. As an image is displayed, you (or a student) read the caption to the class, changing it as you wish. This is a simple process which does not require a computer.

The images have been carefully chosen from 107 libraries, archives and other sources in the U.S. and Europe. They include historical events; important persons; many color pictures of ruins, statues and artifacts from ancient civilizations; hundreds of paintings and other works of art; plus cartoons, posters, and 100 maps which were specially designed for the TV screen.

There are many motion picture film sequences, ranging from Czar Nicholas of Russia to the Beatles. Each of these can be viewed whenever you wish, and can easily be incorporated in any illustrated lecture you may create.

Unlike "canned" presentations, this videodisc is a library of images and captions which you and your students can use to construct illustrated lectures and presentations.

You can choose pictures and captions to depict major events, issues or movements. You can illustrate broad subject areas, such as the Greek and Hellenistic civilizations, with 200 images, or the 11th-century Bayeux Tapestry, with ten color images. With 3,936 images, the possibilities are endless.

The pictures, captions and film clips are arranged in fifteen Sections. Each Section contains an Overview (a sound-and-image video summary of that historical period) which can be used to introduce that period, or to review that period after its study has been completed. Each Overview contains a sampling of the images in that Section, and shows you the kinds of presentations you can easily prepare.

The guide book includes an extensive index which makes it easy to locate the images you want, and also contains subject headings which you or your students can use to prepare separate visual presentations on such subjects as castles, pioneers in the field of science, the Mesopotamian civilization, and a great many others.

This videodisc is not a single-use presentation. Instead, it is an interactive resource, a library from which you and your students can select images and captions on subjects you or they may choose. Working in groups or as individuals, your students can become involved in the study of history by preparing illustrated reports for the classroom TV screen. They can thus gain experience in research, critical thinking, organizing data, and presenting their programs.

Captions from the guide book can be photocopied for non-profit instructional use within your campus; the book is plastic bound for easy copying. You can copy selected captions, with their barcodes, to make a "low-tech" lecture script which you can keep for future use. Or you can use the CD-ROM to prepare a barcoded lecture script for the videodisc.

This new edition has almost twice as many images and captions as the First Edition, and it incorporates improvements, such as maps and film clips, which have been suggested by users of the First Edition.

You will use this videodisc many times during the school year. Its remarkable collection of beautiful images, carefully researched captions, and film clips and maps will make it possible for you to give your students many dynamic and meaningful presentations which you can easily design concerning the history of the Western world. Your students will remember the information they received in these illustrated lectures, and they will remember you with appreciation for having prepared and presented them.

• Introduction
• Early Human Development
• Mesopotamian Civilizations
• Ancient Egypt
• Hebrew History

• The First European Civilizations: Minoan and Mycenean
• Archaic Greece
• Athens: Source of Unity and Disunity
• Hellenistic Civilization

• Before Rome: the Etruscans
• The Roman Republic, 509-31 B.C.
• The Roman Empire, 31 B.C. to 500 A.D.: Building a World-State
• The Spread of Christianity
• Byzantium, 565-1000
• The Final Days of the Roman Empire in the West: Germanic Invasions

• The Foundations of a New Civilization
• Anglo-Saxon England, 500-1066
• The Work of the Monasteries in Creating the Medieval Civilization
• Life in the Middle Ages
• Pilgrims and Crusades
• Islam
• Islamic Spain, 711-1492
• Protected Living in an Age of Conflict: The Medieval Castle
• The First Christian Churches

• The Kings of Europe
• The Medieval City
• The Poor, the Sick, and the Dying
• Two Impregnable Walled Cities: Avila and Carcassonne
• The Mind of the Middle Ages
• The Pilgrimage: Piety, Travel, Commerce
• The Kings of Europe in the 14th and 15th Centuries
• The Hundred Years’ War, 1337-1453
• Medieval Art

• The Italian Renaissance: A Beginning in Florence
• Distinguishing Marks of the Italian Renaissance
• Political Realism: Machiavelli
• Civic Pride in the Italian Renaissance
• Florence Leads the Way
• Other Renaissance Cities
• The Papal States
• Venice: the City on Water
• Other Islands
• The Plague
• Renaissance Theater and Music
• Renaissance Painters and Sculptors

• The French Renaissance
• The German Hapsburgs: Charles V
• The Spanish Hapsburgs: Philip II
• Renaissance Warfare
• The Reformation
• The Counter-Reformation
• The English Reformation
• Denmark, Russia and the Turks
• The Age of Discovery

• The Splendor of Absolute Monarchy: France
• England, 1603-1714
• Spain and the Low Countries
• Wars in Europe
• Colonization
• The Religions of the Times
• Science and Technology
• Daily Life of the People
• Literature and Music
• Baroque Art
• In Other Lands

• Introduction
• European Conflicts Overseas
• Great Britain, 1714-1820
• The French Revolution
• The Napoleonic Era, 1799-1815

• Introduction
• Liberalism: Liberty and Equality
• England Abolishes Slavery
• Liberal Political Revolutions, 1830-1848
• The Industrial Revolution
• Science
• Literature, Theater and Society

• Nation Building, 1850-1871
• The New Imperialism
• Revolutions: Effects of Industrialization
• National Socio-Political Revolutions
• Finance, Technology and Transportation
• The Urban Revolution
• The Arts

• Monarchs and Political Leaders
• World War I
• The Easter Uprising In Ireland
• The Russian Revolution

• Political and Social Turmoil in Central and Eastern Europe
• Germany’s Weimar Republic
• Preventing Future Wars: International Organizations and Treaties
• Postwar Great Britain
• Postwar France
• Postwar Italy
• Spain: The Republican Revolution and Civil War, 1931-1939
• Nazi Germany
• The March to World War II
• Science and Technology
• Transportation
• Arts and People

• The War in Europe
• The Battle of Britain
• The War at Sea
• The Eastern Front
• The U.S. Enters the War
• War in Africa
• The Invasion of Italy
• The Beginning of the End
• The Holocaust
• War in Asia and the Pacific
• Japan’s Final Days
• The War Crimes Trials

• First Steps to a New World, 1945-1960
• Toward Today’s World: To 1960 and Beyond
• Shaping the Future: the 1990s

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