Andrew Marr's History of the World
Andrew Marr's History of the World is a 2012 BBC documentary television series presented by Andrew Marr that covers 70,000 years of world history from the beginning of human civilisation, as African nomadic peoples spread out around the world and settled down to become the first farmers, up to the twentieth century.
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Seasons
1.Survival
5.023-09-201250 minHow the earliest humans spread around the world, adapting and surviving against the odds.
2.Age of Empire
5.030-09-201250 minThe story of the first empires which laid the foundations for the modern world.
3.The Word and the Sword
5.007-10-201250 minCharting the spiritual revolutions that shook the world between 300 BC and 700 AD.
4.Into the Light
5.014-10-201250 minThe Middle Ages, when Vikings explored and pillaged.
5.Age of Plunder
5.021-10-201250 minEurope's rise from piracy to private enterprise.
6.Revolution
5.028-10-201250 minA time when people worldwide rose up in the name of freedom and equality.
7.Age of Industry
5.004-11-201250 minHow Britain's Industrial Revolution created the modern world.
8.Age of Extremes
11-11-201250 minThe atom bomb and other developments in the twentieth century – our age.
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