History's turning points
Subtitle: Disc 3 : Black Death ; Siege of Constantinople ; Conquest of the Incas
By: a co-production between The Learning Channel, Transatlantic Films, ORF, Teleac, SBS
Contributors: Learning Channel (Firm); Transatlantic Films; Osterreichischer Rundfunk; Ambrose Video Publishing
Publisher: Ambrose Video
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 75
Subjects: Black Death; Incas; History; World history
Other titles: Black Death; Siege of Constantinople; Conquest of the Incas; Black Death-1347 AD; Siege of Constantinople-1453 AD; Conquest of the Incas-1532 AD
Description: The Black Death-1347 AD: "When a plague-ridden ship landed in Venice in 1347, it was immediately put into quarantine, but no one could stop the rats from coming ashore. Within three years, a third of Western Europe's population was dead. It was the greatest calamity in history."--Container.

"The siege of Constantinople-1453 AD: In 1204 crusaders sacked the city, then renamed Constantinople. For the next thousand years, the Byzantine Kings hid safely behind the massive walls of Constantinople. Then in 1453, with the Turkish Ottoman Empire encircling the city, Sultan Mehmet brought the newest technology of the 15th century, the cannon, and finally brought down the walls of the world's most impregnable fortress."--Container.

"The conquest of the Incas-1532 AD: When Pizarro, 170 soldiers and a friar arrived, The Inca, scornful of the scruffy Spaniards, invited them to stay in the town. They kidnapped the Inca, collected a ransom and killed him. But the plunder had only begun. The Spaniard's diseases wiped out 90% of the Incas."--Container.
Notes: Videodisc release of a program originally broadcast in 1995.

Narrator: Tim Hardy.

DVD.

English subtitles.
Table of contents: title: The Black Death. Germ warfare; title: Michael of Piazza; title: Guy; title: Results of Black Death; title: The siege of Constantinople. Mehmed; title: The Janisary; title: The Ottoman victory; title: St. Sophia Cathedral; title: The conquest of the Incas. Francisco Pizarro; title: The Incas; title: Cajamarca; title: Machu Pichu.