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During the 229-calendar year period from 1485 to 1714, England changed itself from a minor feudal state into what has been called "the first modern modern culture" and surfaced as the wealthiest & most powerful nation in the world. Those years hold an enormous and captivating report. The English survived repeated epidemics and famines, one failed invasion and two successful ones, two civil wars, some violent religious reformations and counter-reformations, and confrontations with two of the very most powerful monarchs on Earth, Louis XIV of France and Philip II of Spain. However they did much more than survive. They produced a great culture, offering the planet the ideas of John Locke, the plays of Shakespeare, the wit of Swift, the poetry of Milton, the buildings of Christopher Wren, the research of Isaac Newton, and the King James Bible, to name a very few. And, regardless of the cruelty, bloodshed, and religious suppression they been to upon so many, they in the end left behind something else: the political principles and ideals for which we-and so most of them - works and perish, and which we'd build our very own nation. You will watch this remarkable panorama of modern culture, economics, religious beliefs, and politics unfold in some 48 transfixing lectures by a justifiably honored instructor who goes into the lives of not only Britain's ruling royal residences, but the English people themselves, describing how these were born, worked, enjoyed, worshiped, fell in love, and perished. Cinematic in their demonstration and information - whether describing the likely thoughts of Charles I on the path to his execution or the overheard weeping of Queen Anne after she fired her Lord Treasurer - these lectures are as memorable as the annals they describe.
