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				Legacy - The Origins of Civilization			


			

				
Legacy - The Origins of Civilization


				

					10.0											
							IMDb tt0395062
						
										1991										Documentary				


				
What can the past teach us about the present? Come along as charismatic historian Michael Wood (The Story of India) travels the globe to trace the origins of six great civilizations: Iraq, India, China, Egypt, Central America, and Western Europe. Each journey offers surprising perspectives on questions that matter today-about the environment, the individual, society, and spirituality.

				

									

						
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				Iraq - The Cradle of Civilization
								In places like Uruk and Eridu in modern-day Iraq, humans founded the first cities nearly 6,000 years ago.…			

		
				
			

									
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				India - Empire of the Spirit
								Beginning 5,000 years ago, the "Land of the Seven Rivers" cultivated a tradition of nonviolence, renunciation of the…			

		
				
			

									
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				China - The Mandate of Heaven
								With great thinkers such as Confucius and Lao-Tzu, the Chinese conceived a civilization reflecting cosmic harmony, sustained by…			

		
				
			

									
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				Egypt - The Habit of Civilization
								In the world's first great nation, the annual flooding of the Nile conferred not only fertility, but also…			

		
				
			

									
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				Central America - The Burden of Time
								Independent of great civilizations elsewhere, the Maya and Aztecs developed a violent, fatalistic culture, envisioning a cosmos that…			

		
				
			

									
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				The Barbarian West
								Now adopted nearly all over the globe, the modern Western ideas of individualism, property, and purposeful history trace…			

		
			



			

		
		

			

	
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