World’s Story Volume II: India, Persia, Mesopotamia and Palestine

Episodes

• The pastimes of an Assyrian King, Painting, Frontispiece

  Episode 1 · 2:25
• India Part I: The coming of the Aryans: historical note

  Episode 2 · 1:57
• Hymn to Indra and Soma, from the Rig-Veda

  Episode 3 · 2:27
• The people whom the Aryans found in India, by Sir William Wilson Hunter

  Episode 4 · 10:40
• Savitri's choice, from the Mahabharata, rewritten by Elizabeth A. Reed

  Episode 5 · 28:56
• India Part II: Buddha and his teachings: historical note

  Episode 6 · 1:40
• The life of Buddha, by Sir William Wilson Hunter

  Episode 7 · 9:50
• Stories of Buddha, by Sir Edwin Arnold

  Episode 8 · 20:51
• Karma: a story of Buddhist ethics, by Paul Carus

  Episode 9 · 31:48
• India Part III: A group of folklore stories: historical note

  Episode 10 · 1:14
• Right and might, by Katherine Neville Fleeson

  Episode 11 · 3:43
• The man in the Moon, by Katherine Neville Fleeson

  Episode 12 · 2:50
• The legend of the rice, by Katherine Neville Fleeson

  Episode 13 · 1:32
• The lord Krishna and the lapwing's nest, by Margaret E. Noble

  Episode 14 · 1:29
• The peacock and the tortoise, by John Christian

  Episode 15 · 2:48
• Let's see on which side the camel sits, by John Christian

  Episode 16 · 1:13
• The washerman and the donkey, by John Christian

  Episode 17 · 4:19
• The seven weavers and the field of flax, by John Christian

  Episode 18 · 1:26
• Some Indian proverbs

  Episode 19 · 58s
• India Part IV: India in days of yore: historical note

  Episode 20 · 1:38
• Alexander the Great in India, by Plutarch

  Episode 21 · 15:14
• Interior of the temple of Vimala Sah, Photograph p. 90

  Episode 22 · 3:03
• The rock edicts of Asoka, by Vincent A. Smith

  Episode 23 · 12:55
• Poems by King Bhartrihari

  Episode 24 · 1:27
• Sakoontala, or the lost ring, by Kalidasa

  Episode 25 · 19:46
• India Part V: The Mogul conquest: historical note

  Episode 26 · 2:23
• Prince with attendants in a garden, Indian painting p. 114

  Episode 27 · 3:03
• The peacock throne of the great mogul, Shah Jehan, by Jean Baptiste Tavernier

  Episode 28 · 6:30
• The Taj Mahal, the most beautiful tomb in the World, by Bayard Taylor

  Episode 29 · 16:32
• On the march with Aurungzebe, by François Bernier

  Episode 30 · 27:51
• Women of the palace at play, Indian painting p. 142

  Episode 31 · 2:33
• The decline of the Mogul empire, by Thomas Babington Macaulay

  Episode 32 · 9:09
• India Part VI: India becomes a British province: historical note

  Episode 33 · 3:06
• How Robert Clive defended Arcot, by Thomas Babington Macaulay

  Episode 34 · 11:23
• The black hole of Calcutta, by Thomas Babington Macaulay

  Episode 35 · 9:22
• The impeachment of Warren Hastings, by Thomas Babington Macaulay

  Episode 36 · 14:10
• Indian customs and manners in 1840, by Hon. Mountstuart Elphinestone

  Episode 37 · 22:22
• The relief of Lucknow, by Robert Traill Spence Lowell

  Episode 38 · 4:53
• Jessie's Dream, painting p. 180

  Episode 39 · 1:44
• When Queen Victoria became empress of India, by Field-Marshal Lord Roberts

  Episode 40 · 13:46
• India Part VII: The India of to-day: historical note

  Episode 41 · 1:52
• What is caste ?, by Sir William Wilson Hunter

  Episode 42 · 5:36
• The amusements of an eastern king, by a member of the household of Nussir-u-deen, late king of Oude

  Episode 43 · 8:59
• An idol car with stone wheels, photograph p. 200

  Episode 44 · 2:41
• How the Mohammedans keep the festival of the Mohurrim, by a member of the household of Nussir-u-deen, late king of Oude

  Episode 45 · 28:49
• Sunday in the British army in India, by Rev. Arthur Male

  Episode 46 · 15:24
• Camp life in India, by Sir Monier Monier-Williams

  Episode 47 · 17:10
• The towers of silence, by Sir Monier Monier-Williams

  Episode 48 · 19:05
• The last voyage, painting p. 245

  Episode 49 · 2:04
• Fables by Ramakrishna, a Brahman saint of to-day

  Episode 50 · 6:26
• The coronation Durbar of 1911, by John Finnemore

  Episode 51 · 19:51
• Siam: historical note

  Episode 52 · 1:40
• The reception of a white elephant, by Mrs. A. H. Leonowens

  Episode 53 · 11:57
• The white elephant, by Heinrich Heine

  Episode 54 · 4:27
• Afghanistan: historical note

  Episode 55 · 1:35
• "The hill of bones", by Rev. Arthur Male

  Episode 56 · 14:24
• Persia Part I: The mighty empire: historical note

  Episode 57 · 2:07
• Sohrab's last contest, by Matthew Arnold

  Episode 58 · 16:23
• When Cyrus the Great was a boy, by Xenophon

  Episode 59 · 13:24
• Croesus showing Solon his treasures, painting p. 302

  Episode 60 · 1:50
• How Cyrus the Great won the land of gold, by Jacob Abbott

  Episode 61 · 46:17
• The seven sleepers of Ephesus, in the land of Lydia, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Episode 62 · 6:46
• King Darius and the flying Scythians, by Herodotus; retold by Alfred J. Church

  Episode 63 · 22:39
• How Xerxes set out to conquer Greece, by Herodotus

  Episode 64 · 27:38
• Persia Part II: Days of decline: historical note

  Episode 65 · 1:39
• The last king of Persia, by Plutarch

  Episode 66 · 25:16
• The family of Darius at the feet of Alexander the Great, painting p. 368

  Episode 67 · 1:54
• Dara, by James Russell Lowell

  Episode 68 · 4:40
• The building of the bridge of Tus, by Elizabeth A. Reed

  Episode 69 · 11:14
• Little stories from Sadi, a Persian author of the Twelfth Century

  Episode 70 · 4:42
• Persia Part III: Stories of modern Persia: historical note

  Episode 71 · 1:20
• Poe's tales at the Persian court, by Wilfrid Sparroy

  Episode 72 · 13:07
• The prince who lost his book, by Wilfrid Sparroy

  Episode 73 · 8:36
• The food of the royal tutor, by Wilfrid Sparroy

  Episode 74 · 8:41
• A Persian wedding, by Charles James Wills

  Episode 75 · 18:57
• The Persian bazaars, by Eustache de Lorey and Douglas Sladen

  Episode 76 · 15:31
• New Year's calls and gifts, by Samuel G. Wilson

  Episode 77 · 26:56
• Persia Part IV: How things are done in Persia: historical note

  Episode 78 · 52s
• How the Persians build a house, by S. G. W. Benjamin

  Episode 79 · 3:23
• The audience chamber of the shah, by S. G. W. Benjamin

  Episode 80 · 2:48
• How to make calls, by S. G. W. Benjamin

  Episode 81 · 6:24
• Making a present to an official, by S. G. W. Benjamin

  Episode 82 · 2:23
• Getting a glass of milk, by S. G. W. Benjamin

  Episode 83 · 1:22
• How a Persian Mohammedan says his prayers, by Rev. S. G. Wilson

  Episode 84 · 5:01
• Mesopotamia Part I: The kingdoms of Chaldaea and Assyria: historical note

  Episode 85 · 1:50
• The Chaldaeans and their wars, by Diodorus the Sicilian

  Episode 86 · 7:33
• How the Chaldaeans wrote books, by G. Maspero

  Episode 87 · 7:57
• The tower of Babel, by Sir David Lyndsay

  Episode 88 · 2:44
• The lion hunt, Assyrian bas-relief p. 474

  Episode 89 · 2:01
• How the Assyrians and Babylonians lived, by A. H. Sayce

  Episode 90 · 14:39
• The destruction of Sennacherib, by Lord Byron

  Episode 91 · 3:05
• Mesopotamia Part II: Babylon the magnificent: historical note

  Episode 92 · 2:26
• How Semiramis built Babylon, by Diodorus the Sicilian

  Episode 93 · 10:34
• The make-believe elephants of Semiramis, by Diodorus the Sicilian

  Episode 94 · 12:41
• Daniel the fearless, from the Old Testament

  Episode 95 · 11:08
• Belshazzar, by Heinrich Heine

  Episode 96 · 2:47
• The fall of Babylon, by Jacob Abbott

  Episode 97 · 30:37
• Palestine Part I: In Old Testament times: historical note

  Episode 98 · 1:20
• The journey to the promised land

  Episode 99 · 30:10
• The shepherd boy who became king

  Episode 100 · 23:51
• The story of King Solomon

  Episode 101 · 18:36
• Stories from the Talmud

  Episode 102 · 13:26
• The destruction of Jerusalem, by Flavius Josephus, simplified by William Shepard

  Episode 103 · 7:11
• Jeremiah at the fall of Jerusalem, painting p. 582

  Episode 104 · 2:00
• Palestine Part II: A Roman province: historical note

  Episode 105 · 1:10
• On the morning of Christ's nativity, by John Milton

  Episode 106 · 11:35
• The burning of the temple, by Flavius Josephus, simplified by William Shepard

  Episode 107 · 11:30
• Palestine Part III: The crusades: historical note

  Episode 108 · 1:26
• ''God willeth it !'', by François Pierre Guillaume Guizot

  Episode 109 · 10:32
• The crusaders before Jerusalem, painting p. 610

  Episode 110 · 1:52
• The tearing down of England's flag, by Sir Walter Scott

  Episode 111 · 14:21
• The children's crusade, by Eva March Tappan

  Episode 112 · 5:07
• The children's crusade, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Episode 113 · 1:38
• St. Louis as a prisoner, by Joseph François Michaud

  Episode 114 · 12:49