This Video Response Worksheet and Key is based on the BBC documentary series “Andrew Marr’s History of the World - Episode 3: The Word and the Sword.”

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 third episode of this landmark series charting the story of human civilization, Andrew Marr plunges into the spiritual revolutions that shook the world between 300 BC and 700 AD.

This was an age that saw the bloody prince Ashoka turn to Buddhism in India, the ill-fated union of Julius Caesar and Egypt’s Cleopatra, the unstoppable rise of Christianity across the Roman Empire and the dramatic spread of Islam from Spain to Central Asia.

Each dramatic story pits the might of kings and rulers against the power of faith. But Andrew Marr discovers that the most potent human force on the planet came from the combination of faith and military power. Both Christianity and Islam created new empires of ‘the word and the sword’.