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Title: Great video!
Review: This overview of the Dark Ages is an excellent choice for the classroom or pure historical pleasure. First of all, the video is 90 minutes so please ignore the posts that say only 30 minutes! I actually used this video to help bring my junior high text alive for students and they loved it! It took us three days to go through the video, discuss scenes, and read the corresponding text from our book. Students really enjoyed the parts concerning the Vikings - especially the "blood eagle". As a teacher, I was please with the Vikings portion because our book only contained a footnote concerning their role in the Dark Ages. However the video does not discuss their travels to America. Basil II is not mentioned at all and Constantine not nearly enough. However Justinian, Theodora, the plague, Charlemagne, the priesthood/Catholic Church, Clovis, and more are discussed at length! This makes an excellent resource for one to use with any unit on the Dark/Middle Ages.
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