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The Epic of Gilgamesh: Crash Course World Mythology #26
Meet a scary demon named Humbaba in the 26th installment of the 41-episode Crash Course World Mythology series. Scholars learn about The Epic of Gilgamesh, an ancient Mesopotamian poem. Viewers also consider how the epic relates to...
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Population, Sustainability, and Malthus: Crash Course World History 215
Thomas Malthus posed the most famous, and most easily disproven, theory about projected population growth in economic history. What did he get wrong—and why? Explore the Malthusian Theory of Population with a Crash Course video that...
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Theories of Myth: Crash Course World Mythology #12
The 12th installment from the 41-part Crash Course World Mythology series addresses the topic of interpreting myths. Viewers learn all about the theories of myths according to philosophers like Plato, Tertullian, and Clement.Â
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Floods in the Ancient Near East: Crash Course World Mythology #16
What do floods signify in ancient mythology? Pupils explore the topic of flooding with the 16th installment in the Crash Course World Mythology video series. Scholars analyze the Epic of Gilgamesh, Noah's Ark, and a Zoroastrian flood...
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Rama and the Ramayana: Crash Course World Mythology #27
What do a 10-headed demon, a monkey king, and a fire god have to do with ancient India? Scholars find out using the 27th video from the 41-part Crash Course World Mythology set. Viewers explore the hero archetype in ancient myths and...
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Yu the Engineer and Flood Stories from China: Crash Course World Mythology #17
Ancient China is flooded with myths about deluges. Scholars explore Chinese flood myths using the 17th video from the Crash Course World Mythology series. Learners meet an emperor named Yu the Engineer, who worked tirelessly to end...
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The Greeks and Romans - Pantheons Part 3: Crash Course World Mythology #9
The Greek Titan god, Cronus, was so worried that his children were going to overthrow him that he swallowed them. Talk about overreacting! Viewers analyze the similarities between Greek and Roman myths in the ninth installment of the...
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African Pantheons and the Orishas: Crash Course World Mythology #11
Ogiyan is the African god of crushed cassava—how specific! Using the 11th video from the Crash Course World Mythology series, scholars learn about African pantheons. They explore some of the orishas from the myths of the Yoruba religion...
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Mythical Mountains: Crash Course World Mythology #33
Ain't no mountain high enough to keep scholars from watching the 33rd installment in the 41-part Crash Course World Mythology series. Viewers consider stories and myths about mountains and their meanings. In particular, they learn about...
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Indian Pantheons: Crash Course World Mythology #8
What kind of stories include such characters as dancing dwarves and buffalo demons? Memorable myths! With the eighth installment in the 41-part Crash Course World Mythology video series, viewers examine the pantheon of deities in ancient...
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Great Goddesses: Crash Course World Mythology #13
What symbols and patterns are associated with female deities? Scholars use the 13th video of 41 in the Crash Course World Mythology series to consider the mother goddess archetype in mythology. Pupils also learn about a common literary...
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Rethinking Civilization - Crash Course World History 201
Does a civilization need a state to be considered a civilization? High schoolers learn about the nomads, barbarians, and hill people of ancient history and the qualities of their existence that may have been considered a civilization...
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The Apocalypse: Crash Course World Mythology #23
Beasts, dragons, natural disasters ... modern-day zombie thrillers just don't measure up to ancient apocalypse stories! The 23rd video from the Crash Course World Mythology series is all about the end of days. Scholars learn about...
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Freud, Jung, Luke Skywalker, and the Psychology of Myth: Crash Course World Mythology #40
How were modern thinkers influenced by ancient mythology? Scholars investigate the topic with the 40th of 41 videos in the Crash Course World Mythology series. Viewers meet two psychologists, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, and learn about...
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Mythical Language and Idiom: Crash Course World Mythology #41
Learning about mythological idioms can be quite an odyssey. The 41st and final installment in the Crash Course World Mythology series makes the topic manageable and interesting. Scholars explore the language of mythology and investigate...
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Ragnarok: Crash Course World Mythology #24
Ragnarok may sound like a sub-genre of rock music, but it actually refers to a Norse apocalypse myth. Pupils learn about Norway's mythological end-of-the-world story with the 24th installment in the 41-part Crash Course World Mythology...
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Monsters. They're Us, Man: Crash Course World Mythology #36
A wendigo is a man-eating, yellow-eyed ogre from Canadian folklore that puts all other monsters to shame. Viewers discover the terrifying creature, and many others, in the 36th video of the 41-part Crash Course World Mythology series....
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Mythical Trees: Crash Course World Mythology #34
Hopefully scholars won't make like a tree and leave before watching the 34th video in the Crash Course World Mythology series. Pupils analyze stories about mythical trees from Biblical, Norse, Hindu, and Buddhist traditions. In addition,...
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The Evolutionary Epic: Crash Course Big History #5
In the timeline of history, Stegosaurus and Tyrannosaurus rex lived further apart from each other than Tyrannosaurus rex and humans. The fifth Crash Course-Big History video in a series of 16 introduces the concept of evolution. It...
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Pantheons of the Ancient Mediterranean: Crash Course World Mythology #7
The eighth video of 41 in the Crash Course World Mythology series helps shed some light on why the sun was so incredibly important to ancient Egyptians. Viewers learn all about pantheons, or families of gods, and myths from the ancient...
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American Floods: Crash Course World Mythology #18
According to an ancient Mayan myth, the Creator made people using cornmeal and alcohol. Viewers explore the story with the 18th video in the Crash Course World Mythology series. Scholars discover myths about floods from the Mayans and...
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Cosmic Sexy Time, Eggs, Seeds, and Water: Crash Course World Mythology #3
Which came first: the chicken or the cosmic egg? With the third video of 41 in the Crash Course World Mythology series, pupils delve into the world of creation myths. Scholars learn about cultures throughout history that have used the...
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The Dying God: Crash Course World Mythology #19
Many myths focus on gods sacrificing themselves for humans; why is that? Scholars explore the topic using the 19th installment of the Crash Course World Mythology series. They discover the dying god archetype in ancient mythology and...
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Serpents and Dragons: Crash Course World Mythology #38
What role do giant, winged, fire-breathing dragons play in ancient mythology? The 38th installment in the 41-episode Crash Course World Mythology series is all about slithering serpents and fiery dragons. Learners explore dragons from...