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BBC – What The Ancients Did For Us (Complete)

Posted By: b1u3eyes

Date: 10 Nov 2009 03:26:05

BBC – What The Ancients Did For Us (Complete)
Language: English | 500mn | DivX 1358kbps | 700x572 | 25fps | MP3 256kbps | 6.1 GB
Genre: Documentary

What the Ancients Did for Us is a 2005 BBC documentary series presented by Adam Hart-Davis that examines the impact of ancient civilizations on modern society.

Programme 1 – The Islamic World
In this first part of an exciting new series, Adam Hart-Davis builds and tests some of the most extraordinary inventions from the early Islamic World. From the palaces of the Alhambra in Spain to the crowded souks of Cairo in Egypt, roving reporter Amani Zain tells us the stories behind the golden age of Islamic discovery

Programme 2 – The Chinese
China is the fastest growing economy on earth. One in four of every person on the planet is Chinese, and Shanghai is six times the size of London, offering a home to twenty million people. But while China is developing rapidly now, the Chinese civilisation is one of the oldest surviving in the world.

Programme 3 – The Aztecs, Maya and Incas
These three peoples lived in a vast area of modern-day Central and South America which incorporates coastal strips, hot and steamy jungles, savannah grassland and cold windy highlands. Though they spoke different languages, they had broadly similar cultures and they worshipped many of the same gods (although they gave them different names).

Programme 4 – The Romans
Rome was founded on the banks of the Tiber in 753 BC and for a thousand years the western world was ruled from within its walls. To support this vast Empire the Romans created complex infrastructure and used the techniques of mass production, centuries before the industrial revolution.

Programme 5 – The Indians
India is one of the oldest and richest civilizations in the world. It is home to the world’s first planned cities, where every house had its own bathroom and toilet five thousand years ago.

Programme 6 – The Mesopotamians
Who kicked off civilisation? Was it the Egyptians, the Greeks or the Romans? Well, actually, none of them did. Human history began in the great alluvial plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, with its rich and immensely fertile soil: a land known as Mesopotamia.

Programme 7 – The Egyptians
Egypt became a unified country five thousand years ago and – until the arrival of Alexander the Great in 332 BC – remained a fiercely independent land with its own very distinctive art, religion and culture

Programme 8 – The Greeks
The ancient Greek civilisation flourished for about a thousand years, not as a unified country but rather as a loose association of city states, both on the mainland of Greece and elsewhere around the Mediterranean. The philosopher Plato described the states as being like a series of frogs sitting around a pond

Programme 9 – The Britons
This programme shows the evolution of the people of Britain from Stone Age hunters to Iron Age warriors. From early people who used animal bone picks to dig mines to a society skilled in the use of metallurgy, bronze, iron and gold. From a nomadic existence to a society organised into tribes with their own coinage and identities

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