This Video Response Worksheet and Key is based on the BBC documentary series “Andrew Marr’s History of the World - Episode 4: Into the Light.”

You will receive a zip file which contains a Video Response Worksheet (in both PDF and editable DOCX formats) and a Video Response Worksheet Key (in both PDF and editable DOCX formats).

Video Response Worksheets will turn your history lesson into a rich educational experience that keeps students attentive, engaged, and accountable. The questions are designed so that they occur at a regular pace to keep the students engaged but not overloaded. They are also designed so that a review of the completed worksheet gives students a basic overall summary of the video.

This episode is approximately 59 minutes long.

From the producer:
SERIES DESCRIPTION: Andrew Marr sets off on an epic journey through 70,000 years of human history. Using dramatic reconstructions, documentary filming around the world and cutting-edge computer graphics, he reveals the decisive moments that shaped the world we live in today, telling stories we thought we knew and others we were never told.

ABOUT THIS EPISODE: In the fourth episode of this landmark series charting the story of human civilization, Andrew Marr reaches the Middle Ages.

After the collapse of the Roman Empire, Europe was little more than a muddy backwater. Vikings explored and pillaged from Northern Europe to North America. But they also laid the foundations of powerful new trading states, including Russia.
This was also the Golden Age of Islam, and the knowledge of ancient civilizations from India, Persia and Greece was built upon by Islamic scholars in Baghdad’s House of Wisdom.

By exploring the conquests of Genghis Khan, the adventures of Marco Polo and the extraordinary story of an African king - the wealthiest who ever lived - Marr finds out how Europe emerged from the so-called ‘Dark Ages’ and used influences from around the world to rise again with the Renaissance.