Legacy - The Origins of Civilization(1991)
Documentary
First Air Date: 1991-08-13
Average Runtime: N/A
Rating: 10.0
Votes: 2
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 6
What can the past teach us about the present? Come along as charismatic historian Michael Wood (The Story of India) travels the globe to trace the origins of six great civilizations: Iraq, India, China, Egypt, Central America, and Western Europe. Each journey offers surprising perspectives on questions that matter today-about the environment, the individual, society, and spirituality.
Keywords
ancient history
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Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes: 6E01
Iraq - The Cradle of Civilization
Air Date: 1991-08-13
In places like Uruk and Eridu in modern-day Iraq, humans founded the first cities nearly 6,000 years ago. They left u...
E02
India - Empire of the Spirit
Air Date: 1991-08-20
Beginning 5,000 years ago, the "Land of the Seven Rivers" cultivated a tradition of nonviolence, renunciation of the ...
E03
China - The Mandate of Heaven
Air Date: 1991-08-27
With great thinkers such as Confucius and Lao-Tzu, the Chinese conceived a civilization reflecting cosmic harmony, su...
E04
Egypt - The Habit of Civilization
Air Date: 1991-09-10
In the world's first great nation, the annual flooding of the Nile conferred not only fertility, but also a deep resp...
E05
Central America - The Burden of Time
Air Date: 1991-09-17
Independent of great civilizations elsewhere, the Maya and Aztecs developed a violent, fatalistic culture, envisionin...
E06
The Barbarian West
Air Date: 1991-09-24
Now adopted nearly all over the globe, the modern Western ideas of individualism, property, and purposeful history tr...
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