Dante's Quiet Revolution
The Renaissance was a re-imagining of Classical Greece in a Christian European context, a spirit that would birth modernity.How did it start?Scholars argued that the Renaissance came about due to a pe...
24 Touko 1h 15min
The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism
In this talk to his Chinese high school students, Jiang Xueqin explains how the Protestant Reformation birthed capitalism. Martin Luther and John Calvin saw the Catholic Church as inherently and irred...
24 Touko 1h 23min
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
What is the Scientific Revolution, and how did it happen? Why did it happen in Europe, and not anywhere else? In this talk to his Chinese high school students, Jiang Xueqin explains that the Scientifi...
24 Touko 1h 18min
The Spanish Conquest of the New World
How did a few thousand Spanish Conquistadors subdue and conquer millions of Aztecs, Incas, and Mayans.Most scholars believe it's a combination of superior Spanish military technology, spreading of dea...
24 Touko 58min
The Gunpowder Revolution
The Ottomans, Safavids, Mughals, and Chinese were the first four gunpowder empires. So how did Europe come to conquer the world?In this talk to his Chinese high school students, Jiang Xueqin explains ...
24 Touko 1h 11min
The Revolution of Reason
This video begins a three-part series on the French Revolution. The over-arching thesis is that the French Revolution was a religious crusade, and it was made successful by the contributions of three ...
24 Touko 1h 28min
The Passion of Robespierre
The French Revolution allowed for the meteoric rise of an idealistic provincial lawyer. During the Reign of Terror, Robespierre could have been king, but ultimately fell to the guillotine, like thousa...
24 Touko 1h 26min
Napoleon's Empire of Myth
How did a young Corsican become Emperor of France in 1804?In this talk to his Chinese high school students, Jiang Xueqin argues that it was Napoleon's myth-making genius that seduced the French people...
24 Touko 1h 8min
