I was set on being a Mounted Police Officer from a young age, but I knew it

had to move to make it happen and for me the Met presented endless opportunities.

From joining as a PC at age 23 I went into a variety of roles from emergency

response to public order policing. As a sergeant in the Mounted Branch my dream job

became reality. Now I've been promoted to Inspector, I can't wait to see where

my career takes me next. Become a Met Police Officer, search Met Police

careers.

This is CBN side in the world. I'm John Batchu with Peter Frank a pan of Oxford

University, Wushtech College, a professor of global history. The new book is

the Earth transformed. Looking at climate, ecology, pandemic, volcanoes, all of

that and how humankind, especially the civilizations that reach back the last

5,000 years have responded. Now we come to a debate that is ongoing whether

or not there is a way of explaining why Europe seems to accelerate in terms of

science and technology. Over Asia where much of the innovation of the earlier

thousand or two thousand years took place, I know that having visited Central

Asia, the city states of Tashkant of Kabul of Samaritan, all of those city

states were well established with science and learning and education. Thousands

of years before that came to Europe, I date European universities that

remembering 1222 Parva. That is the period of time when universities in

guilds are mixing with what is known as the feudal revolution and the

professor teaches me that that is too shorthand. There's a lot of

complication that went on in the 13th century in Europe, but in any event Europe

...