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Episodes (8)
Ep 1
Survival
★5.0
2012-09-23•50m
How the earliest humans spread around the world, adapting and surviving against the odds.
Ep 2
Age of Empire
★5.0
2012-09-30•50m
The story of the first empires which laid the foundations for the modern world.
Ep 3
The Word and the Sword
★5.0
2012-10-07•50m
Charting the spiritual revolutions that shook the world between 300 BC and 700 AD.
Ep 4
Into the Light
★5.0
2012-10-14•50m
The Middle Ages, when Vikings explored and pillaged.
Ep 5
Age of Plunder
★5.0
2012-10-21•50m
Europe's rise from piracy to private enterprise.
Ep 6
Revolution
★5.0
2012-10-28•50m
A time when people worldwide rose up in the name of freedom and equality.
Ep 7
Age of Industry
★5.0
2012-11-04•50m
How Britain's Industrial Revolution created the modern world.
Ep 8
Age of Extremes
2012-11-11•50m
The atom bomb and other developments in the twentieth century – our age.