Civilisation Episodes Available now
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The 20th Century
Will the disparity between rich and poor prevent the emergence of a global civilisation?
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The 20th Century
The descent of European civilisation into dictatorship, war, and unprecedented genocide
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The Victorian Age
How cotton, coal, iron, steam, and sweat, gave birth of the industrial revolution
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Judaism and Christianity
Christianity's intellectual and spiritual debt to Judaism
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The Enlightenment
The rise of reason, science, tolerance, and liberty in 18th Century France
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The Colonial Experience
Christopher Columbus, Hernan Cortez, and the arrogance of conquest
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The Golden Age of Islam
The poetry, learning, and science of the 7th Century civilisation that grew out of Islam
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The Renaissance
The Italian artistic achievement and intellectual innovation that started the Renaissance
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Ancient Rome
How Rome grew from a shanty town to the centre of the world's largest empire
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Ancient Athens
Athens' extraordinary creative outburst in politics drama philosophy and the visual arts