The story of the world [sound recording]. history for the classical child / Volume 2, The Middle Ages : from the fall of Rome to the rise of the Renaissance
(Audio Book on CD)

Disc 1. The glory that was Rome -- The early days of Britain. Celts of Britain -- Barbarians come to Britain -- Beowulf the hero -- Christianity comes to Britain -- The Byzantine empire -- The medieval Indian empire. A King named Skandagupta -- Disc 2. Monks in caves -- Rise of Islam -- Islam becomes an empire -- The great dynasties of China. Yang Chien unites north and south -- Tang dynasty -- East of China. The Yamato dynasty of China -- Tale of three countries: Korea, China, and Japan -- The bottom of the world. The first people of Australia -- Disc 3. The long journey of the Maori -- The Kingdom of the Franks. Clovis, the ex-barbarian -- Four tribes, one empire -- The Islamic Invasion. Islam in Spain and Africa -- The great kings of France. Charles the hammer -- Greatest king: Charlemagne -- The arrival of the Norsemen. The Viking invasion -- Eric the Red and "Eric's Son" -- The Norse gods / Thor and the giant king -- The first kings of England. Vikings invade England -- Alfred the Great -- The Battle of Hastings --Disc 4. England after the conquest -- Knights and samurai -- The age of Crusades -- A new kind of king. Richard the Lionhearted --

Disc 5. John Lackland and the Magna Carta - Robin Hood / Robin Hood and the butcher

The Diaspora. The scattering of the Jews

A tale of the Diaspora /The clever rabbi of Cordova

The Mongols devastate the east

Exploring the mysterious East. Marco Polo goes to China

The Forbidden city of the Ming

- The first Russians. The Rus come to Constantinople

Ivan the Great and Ivan the Terrible

Disc 6. The Ottoman empire

The end of the world. The plague

A new way of living

France and England at war. Henry V and the Battle of Agincourt

Joan of Arc

War for the English throne

The kingdoms of Spain and Portugal

Ferdinand and Isabella unite Spain

Henry the Navigator, prince of Portugal

Disc. 7. African kingdoms. Gold, salt, and Ghana

Mansa Musa of Mali

The Songhay Empire

India under the Moghuls. The Moghul dynasty

Akbar of India / The Bad-luck servant

Exploring new worlds. Christopher Columbus

Vespucci and Magellan

The American kingdoms

The Mayans of Central America

The marvelous city of Tenochtitlan

The Incas

Disc 8. Spain, Portugal, and the New World. The slave trade

Cortes and Montezuma

Martin Luther's new ideas

The Renaissance

Reformation and Counter Reformation

The new universe. The revolution of Copernicus

Galileo's strange notions

England's greatest queen. The queen who almost wasn't

Disc 9. Good Queen Bess

England's greatest playwright. William Shakespeare / Macbeth

Macbeth's decision

New ventures to the Americas. Walter Raleigh and the New World

The Lost Colony

Explorations in the North. New-Found land

Jacques Cartier's discoveries

Empires collide. Spain and England's war

The world at the end of the sixteenth century