Early World History

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    • Geography, Technology, and Institutions
    • By: Jeffrey D. Sachs
    • Narrated by: Steve Menasche
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • Today's most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planetwide action if we are to secure a long-term future. But humanity's story has always been on a global scale....

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    • By: J. M. Roberts
    • Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
    • Length: 54 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 07-20-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • In his monumental History of the World, J.M. Roberts delivered a powerful vision of human history as a story of change, a deliberate shaping of experience and environment....

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    • A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa
    • By: Michael Gomez
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 19 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • A groundbreaking book that puts early and medieval West Africa on the map of global history....

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    • 24 Hours in Ancient History Series, Book 1
    • By: Philip Matyszak
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 141 ratings
    • In this entertaining and enlightening guide, best-selling historian Philip Matyszak introduces us to the people who lived and worked there. In each hour of the day we meet a new character and discover the fascinating details of their daily lives....

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    • How the Jesus Movement Became the World's Largest Religion
    • By: Rodney Stark
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 132 ratings
    • Celebrated religious and social historian Rodney Stark traces the extraordinary rise of Christianity through its most pivotal and controversial moments to offer fresh perspective on the history of the world's largest religion....

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    • Pilgrims in a New World and the Early American Experience
    • By: Martyn Whittock
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • Leading into the 400th anniversary of the voyage of the Mayflower, Martyn Whittock examines the lives of the "saints" (members of the Separatist Puritan congregations) and "strangers" (economic migrants) on the original ship....

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    • The Early Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign of World War II August–October 1942
    • By: Jeffrey R. Cox
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 20 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 627 ratings
    • Following the disastrous Java Sea campaign, the Allies went on the offensive in the Pacific in a desperate attempt to halt the Japanese forces that were rampaging across the region. With the conquest of Australia a very real possibility, the stakes were high....

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    • The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World
    • By: J. C. Sharman
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • Empires of the Weak argues that Europeans had no general military superiority in the early modern era. J. C. Sharman shows instead that European expansion is better explained by deference to strong Asian and African polities, disease in the Americas, and maritime supremacy....

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    • The Life and Times of the Playboy Who Invented Air Combat
    • By: Ed Cobleigh
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 01-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • In the Spring of 1915, a Parisian playboy took to the lethal skies of World War I, becoming the world’s first fighter pilot. Never before had a ...

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    • History in Fewer Words, Vol. 1
    • By: Gregory Bullock
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • This is the history of the world, in summarized form. Learn how the major figures, events, and ages of history connect without detail-overload. ...

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    • By: Andrew Marr
    • Narrated by: Andrew Marr, David Timson
    • Length: 26 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 496 ratings
    • From the earliest civilizations to the 21st century: a global journey through human history, published alongside a landmark BBC One television series....

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    • Governor of the Netherlands and Early 16th-Century Europe's Greatest Diplomat
    • By: Rozsa Gaston
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • For fans of ALISON WEIR and PHILIPPA GREGORY ◆ FIRST PLACE WINNER - 2023 CHAUCER Book Awards - Early Historical Fiction ◆ WINNER - 2023 READERS...

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    • From the Ancient World to the Information Age
    • By: Philip Parker
    • Narrated by: Joan Walker
    • Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • A truly global view of history covering over 350 of the world's most important turning points. This is an essential audiobook for every history buff....

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    • The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
    • By: Elizabeth Wayland Barber
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 219 ratings
    • New discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient societies....

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    • A World History from the Dawn of Civilization Through the Early Renaissance
    • By: C. V. Wedgwood
    • Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
    • Length: 17 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 03-14-25
    • Language: English
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    • The Spoils of Time is a concise history of the world in nine chapters, tracing the prehistoric beginnings of early man’s halting steps towards civilization and ending sometime around 1500.

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    • A Historical and Practical Introduction to Christians in the Greco-Roman World
    • By: Nadya Williams
    • Narrated by: Marni Penning
    • Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Cultural Christians in the Early Church, which aims to be both historical and practical, argues that cultural Christians were the rule, rather than the exception, in the early church....

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    • The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity
    • By: Rodney Stark
    • Narrated by: Kevin Foley
    • Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 551 ratings
    • How the West Won demonstrates the primacy of uniquely Western ideas-among them the belief in free will, the commitment to the pursuit of knowledge...

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    • By: George Hodges
    • Narrated by: James Walmsley
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • This classic text gives a broad overview of the early Christian church, how it was formed, and how it dealt with the Roman empire, which was at first hostile to Christianity, and then under Constantine the Great how it came to embrace the new faith....

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