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Civilisation Episodes

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    The 20th Century

    Will the disparity between rich and poor prevent the emergence of a global civilisation?

  2. The 20th Century

    The descent of European civilisation into dictatorship, war, and unprecedented genocide

  3. The Victorian Age

    How cotton, coal, iron, steam, and sweat, gave birth of the industrial revolution

  4. Judaism and Christianity

    Christianity's intellectual and spiritual debt to Judaism

  5. The Enlightenment

    The rise of reason, science, tolerance, and liberty in 18th Century France

  6. The Colonial Experience

    Christopher Columbus, Hernan Cortez, and the arrogance of conquest

  7. The Golden Age of Islam

    The poetry, learning, and science of the 7th Century civilisation that grew out of Islam

  8. The Renaissance

    The Italian artistic achievement and intellectual innovation that started the Renaissance

  9. Ancient Rome

    How Rome grew from a shanty town to the centre of the world's largest empire

  10. Ancient Athens

    Athens' extraordinary creative outburst in politics drama philosophy and the visual arts

  11. The Greeks and Persians

    How the clash between Greeks and Persians in 5BC was recorded in stories and poems

  12. Ancient China

    Remarkable for its organisation, written language, and great thinkers such as Confucius

  13. Ancient India

    Was the concept of dharma - religious duty - essential to ancient India's stability?

  14. Ancient Egypt

    How Ancient Egypt adopted ideas and made them more stylish, human, and sophisticated

  15. Mesopotomia

    The invention of writing. Sumerian's revolutionary representation of the sounds of words