History doesn't really work like that, because most of the noteworthy historical elements were conflicts, or the results of conflicts.
History is conflict, sorrows, woes, and determination.
Without telling the whole picture of history, you are basically taking some kind of classwork with zero value. I don’t what you intend to learn....by cherry-picking your way through it.
Skipping the battles of Rome, to only chat about speeches by the Rome Senators?
Skipping the great battles of Greece, to only chat about Socrates?
Skipping WW I, to only chat about Wilson’s League of Nations?
There is no prospective here.
There’s some point about a thousand years ago, where the intellectual elite were successful and had destroyed most of the common knowledge and writings of Aristotle. You could travel through all of Rome and Paris....finding nothing but a few pages of writings.
Then one day....someone happened to be wondering around Spain, which was run for the most part by the Muslims, and accidentally walked into the midst of vast libraries of collections by Aristotle. Everyone was shocked...especially after they began to review his logic and philosophy work. The whole age of enlightenment....comes mostly from this discovery.
If this is the commmon core theme, then it’s a screwed up method.
Be aware, this clip is 20 minutes ling. I guarantee, it’s packed with info and will fly by:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QJ3I_xF4MY