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The Romans, Torn Apart by Success

From insignificant city state to the ancient world's most formidable military power

• 13 mins

Interesting Times: Ancient China

The quest for stability amid the ever-present threat of violence

• 13 mins

The World's Most Successful Conqueror

Mongols mastermind Genghis Khan, who brought terror to the known world

• 13 mins

The Crusades, the First Ideological War

How Pope Urban II sponsored war on Islam

• 13 mins

Battle as Divine Judgment

How warfare affected the development of Europe in the Middle Ages

• 15 mins

The Slave Trade

Europeans in Ghana began the slave trade more than 500 years ago

• 13 mins

God and Gold: the Spanish in South America

The tragedy of Europe's first contact with the natives of America

• 13 mins

India and the Coming of the British

How the Mughal age of conflict-avoidance came to an end

• 13 mins

Total War

In the early 20th century, conflict came to involve not just armies but entire nations

• 13 mins

War in the Nuclear Age

As the Second World War ended, the Cold War began

• 13 mins