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The Secrets To Civilization

Season 1
Modern science reveals the environmental forces that have shaped human history
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  1. S1 E1 - BRONZE AGE CATASTROPHE
    September 22, 2021
    52min
    13+
    In the last decade the search for data about the planet’s environmental history has raised questions about how climate change has influenced human civilizations in the past. We find out how the era of the Trojan War and the Exodus was beset by a rapidly cooling climate.
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  2. S1 E2 - CITIES AND EMPIRES
    September 22, 2021
    51min
    13+
    The 1st Millenium BCE in the Mediterranean is the birth of the modern world. We’ll explore the environmental conditions that made this possible and how people working with new technologies took advantage of a favorable climate to create a classical civilization.
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  3. S1 E3 - EMPIRE and EPIDEMICS
    September 22, 2021
    52min
    13+
    With the help of top scientists and historians including Kyle Harper author of bestseller The Fate of Rome we look into what science is now telling us about the impact of disease in toppling the Roman Empire.
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