Approximately 240 video clips have just been added to Modern World History, including clips from the three-part Guns, Germs, and Steel series by National Geographic. Based on Jared Diamond’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, this classic series follows humankind’s bumpy journey from the Ice Age to the information age to reveal the root cause of global inequality: geography. Commentary by Diamond himself as well as by international historians, archaeologists, and scientists is combined with documentary footage, dramatic reconstructions, and computer animation to investigate the forces that have shaped the past—and are shaping the future.

The three parts of the Guns, Germs, and Steel series are:

• Out of Eden, including the video clips History of Conquest, Early Hunter-Gatherers, and Civilization and Determinism
• Conquest, including the video clips Conquest by Disease, Hernan Cortes and the Aztecs, and Old World vs. New World
• Into the Tropics, including the video clips Quest for Global Conquest, and African Diversity: Languages, and Africa and Malaria

In addition to the video clips, five new volumes from the Milestones in World History series have also been added:

• The Chinese Cultural Revolution
• The Manhattan Project
• The Bolshevik Revolution
• The Perry Expedition and the Opening of Japan
• D-Day and the Liberation of France

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