How Goya Interprets Our Modern Moment

ONPOINT with Tom Ashbrook

https://onpoint.wbur.org/2014/10/14/goya-mfa-order-disorder-war-isis-spain

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La guerra de la Independencia 1 (El comienzo )

(In Spanish)

Uploaded on Mar 4, 2008

Extracto de la serie "Historia de España" sobre los sucesos previos al levantamiento del 2 de Mayo

Latin American Revolutions: Crash Course World History #31

Published on Aug 23, 2012

In which John Green talks about the many revolutions of Latin America in the 19th century. At the beginning of the 1800s, Latin America was firmly under the control of Spain and Portugal. The revolutionary zeal that had recently created the United States and had taken off Louis XVI's head in France arrived in South America, and a racially diverse group of people who felt more South American than European took over. John covers the soft revolution of Brazil, in which Prince Pedro boldly seized power from his father, but promised to give it back if King João ever returned to Brazil. He also covers the decidedly more violent revolutions in Mexico, Venezuela, and Argentina. Watch the video to see Simón Bolívar's dream of a United South America crushed, even as he manages to liberate a bunch of countries and get two currencies and about a thousand schools and parks named after him.

PBS Egalite for All: Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution (2009)

Watch this documentary and leave comments for extra credit. 10 comments during the semester = one extra credit point 

Unknown hominid species interbred with early humans

Unknown hominid species interbred with early humans 

A new study presented to the Royal Society meeting on ancient DNA in London last week has revealed a dramatic finding – the genome of one of our ancient ancestors, the Denisovans, contains a segment of DNA that seems to have come from another species that is currently unknown to science. The discovery suggests that there was rampant interbreeding between ancient human species in Europe and Asia more than 30,000 years ago. But, far more significant was the finding that they also mated with a mystery species from Asia – one that is neither human nor Neanderthal - See more at: http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins/ancient-humans-bred-completely-unknown-species-001059#sthash.cO5LW2Lj.dpuf

This guy got around ... 16 million descendants!

Genghis Khan: prolific lover as well as fighter and the father of a good many of us!

The average person who lived in 1200 AD would have about 800 descendants by now, this guy has 16,000,000. He was discovered through DNA testing but who was he?

European Conquest of the Americas : Week 3

Today's lecture on the European conquest of the Americas ....

3European Conquest of America by Joseph Holbrook