Description
We humans have been on the Earth for more than a
million years, but civilization – life in cities – has come about only
in the last 5,000. Through history civilizations have rose and fell,
carved out of nature, dependent on nature, in the end – nature took them
back. But in the past few hundred years, one form of civilization –
that of the West – has changed the balance of nature forever. And now it
is civilization itself that has become the central problem of our
planet. To understand why, we must look afresh at how we see history.
Host Michael Wood traces the rise of both Asian and Western civilization
in one global perspective in these thought-provoking videos. From the
crumbling ruins in the Iraqi desert to those of Greece and Rome, viewers
contemplate thriving cities and complex societies that have vanished, a
reminder that other nations prospered for thousands of years. Now all
that remains is their legacy.
India – The Empire of the Spirit
Ancient India is with us today in the living tradition
of the Hindu religion, the basis of Indian culture. The traditions that
are honored by millions of Hindus in the present were born in the Indus
valley 5,000 years ago.
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legacy, origins, civilization, india, empire, hindu, culture, indian, Peter Spry-Leverton, documentary, film, movie, watch, free, documentaries, history
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