Empire of the Islamic World (Great Empires of the Past)
While Europe was in the Dark Ages, classical learning from ancient Greece, Rome, and Persia was being preserved and advanced in Islamic libraries and universities. From 632 to 1258, the Islamic Empire was the most powerful and cultured domain in the world. Less than a century after its founding, the empire had grown from a loose confederation of desert tribes into the largest empire in the history of the world, larger than the mighty Roman Empire at its peak.
Disney Educational - Bill Nye The Science Guy - Deserts
The Science Guy succumbs to the lure of the desert, and Bill Nye goes to Arizona to get a close-up look at the unique land and both plant and animal life. His high-energy series has received many awards for its unique approach to science education, including a National Education Association award, and one from the Television Critics Association. Bill Nye the Science Guy: Deserts offers explanations on how desert animals, including camels, adapt to extreme conditions.
One hundred miles south of Albuquerque, two parallel chains of mountains isolate a 120-mile jumble of black rock, dry lake beds, flesh-colored sand, and desolation. This is the Jornada del Muerto, the Journey of the Dead. So named because of a particular death centuries ago, this desert has witnessed many tales of loss and destruction. Alan Boye takes us on a trek through the beauty and violence of this forbidding land.
