Splash Biography

In 1914 Six Empires fell into a debilitating war over dominance over Europe and the wider world. By 1919, two were exhausted to the point they would never recover, two had their government's collapse, and two were shattered completely. What happened to Europe after the war? What happened to the world? How did Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini take power? And what made the world plunge into an even worse war just twenty years later? This broad, lecture style class will seek to answer those questions .

The Crusades are one of the most baffling, bizarre, and counter-intuitive events to ever happen in the history of Humanity as a species. One thousand years ago, tens of thousands of Christians in Europe decide to walk three thousand miles through unfamiliar and hostile territory just to claim a city half-way across the known word. Why did they do this? How did they do this? Did they succeed? This class will tell the story of the crusades, lecture style, and attempt to answer these questions which still baffle historians to this day.

This course will cover the famous Persian Wars between the Persian Empire and a coalition of Greek City-States headed by Athens and Sparta. It will be lecture based but with plenty of room for questions and observations.

This course will cover the famous Persian Wars between the Persian Empire and a coalition of Greek City-States headed by Athens and Sparta. It will be lecture based but with plenty of room for questions and observations.