Presented in a storyteller’s enthusiastic manner, join the author on an adventure of the high seas, exploits with knights, expeditions with explorers, and more! Be enthralled as thrilling events from AD 30–1799 are recounted and fascinating people are introduced. These accounts of people and events are supplemental to the material heard in What in the World? Volume 2. Three-CD Album.
Together, you will
Sail the high seas of adventure with author Diana Waring, charting the vast coastlines of history and encountering its mysterious inhabitants.
Hear the exploits of great European knights, the diplomacy of clever Asian warriors, and the technological marvels of Islam’s advanced civilization.
Travel enormous distances to an unknown shore, taking the gospel of Jesus Christ to people of a different language and culture.
Experience the thrill of discovery with the intrepid explorers and brilliant inventors of the Middle Ages.
Topics include:
how the Canon of New Testament Scripture was chosen, and why
the incredible exploits, adventures, and demise of Attila the Hun
the life and times of Saint Columba
the splendor and might of the Islamic Empire during the time of Europe‘s “Dark Age”
the Byzantine Empire in its glory and strength
Alfred of England
the Truce of God
Medieval Europe
the voyages and discoveries promoted by Prince Henry the Navigator
the unbelievable story of Cortez
the revival and missionary movement of the Moravians
Sir Isaac Newton
the South Sea adventures of Captain Cook