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History's Greatest Voyages of Exploration

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Follow in the footsteps of history's most ambitious and influential explorers from antiquity through the space age in this captivating course taught by a top-rated professor.

Syllabus

  • 01: The Earliest Explorers
  • 02: The Scientific Voyage of Pytheas the Greek
  • 03: St. Brendan-The Travels of an Irish Monk
  • 04: Xuanzang's Journey to the West
  • 05: Leif Eriksson the Lucky
  • 06: Marco Polo and Sir John Mandeville
  • 07: Ibn Battuta-Never the Same Route Twice
  • 08: Portugal's Great Leap Forward
  • 09: The Enigmatic Christopher Columbus
  • 10: Magellan and the Advent of Globalization
  • 11: The Ruthless Ambition of the Conquistadors
  • 12: Henry Hudson-Death on the Ice
  • 13: The Jesuits on a Global Mission
  • 14: Captain Cook Maps the World
  • 15: Alexander von Humboldt-Explorer Genius
  • 16: Jefferson Dispatches Lewis and Clark
  • 17: Sir John Franklin's Epic Disaster
  • 18: Ida Pfeiffer-Victorian Extreme Traveler
  • 19: Japan Discovers the West
  • 20: Dr. Livingstone and Mary Kingsley in Africa
  • 21: Arctic Feats and Fates
  • 22: Antarctic Rivalries
  • 23: A Deep-Sea Dive into the Mariana Trench
  • 24: The Race to Outer Space
  • By This Professor

Taught by

Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

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