Season 1 (1999)

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The Eleventh Century: Century of the Sword
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October 24, 1999 • 1h

Survey the world in AD 1000 and see that China was the most vibrant, open and technologically advanced civilization. Islam, less t...Read more

The Twelfth Century: Century of the Axe
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October 31, 1999 • 1h

All over the world people challenged nature and a century of ambitious building began. At Pueblo Bonito, in the American Southwest...Read more

The Thirteenth Century: Century of the Stirrup
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November 7, 1999 • 1h

Genghis Khan and his Mongol horsemen thundered across Asia, creating the largest empire the world has ever known. The Mongols were...Read more

The Fourteenth Century: Century of the Scythe
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November 14, 1999 • 1h

Black Death, the catastrophic plague that invaded Europe from the East, cut short the new prosperity. Treatment varied from the ma...Read more

The Fifteenth Century: Century of the Sail
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November 21, 1999 • 1h

China set out to dominate the seas. These new trade ventures were extremely lucrative, but after 30 years Ming bureaucrats forbade...Read more

The Sixteenth Century: Century of the Compass
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November 28, 1999 • 1h

This was a century when the empires and religions of the world expanded aggressively. Diego de Landa, a Spanish missionary, conver...Read more

The Seventeenth Century: Century of the Telescope
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December 5, 1999 • 1h

The role of the scientist changed dramatically. Greatest of all the new gentlemen scientists was Isaac Newton, whose experiments w...Read more

The Eighteenth Century: Century of the Furnace
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December 12, 1999 • 1h

This was a century in which revolutionary ideas ignited and transformed society. Western scientists undertook heroic expeditions t...Read more

The Nineteenth Century: Century of the Machine
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December 19, 1999 • 1h

The steam engine transformed travel and transport as railways and steamships encircled the earth. Thomas Cook invented mass touris...Read more

The Twentieth Century: Century of the Globe
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December 26, 1999 • 1h

For the first time, mankind saw the world as a whole. Sigmund Freud explored the human psyche. Science split the atom. DNA reveale...Read more