Legacy: The Origins of Civilization - Season 1

Legacy: The Origins of Civilization - Season 1

Season 1

Network
DatesAug 13, 1991 - Sep 24, 1991

Episodes

Iraq - Cradle of Civilizaion
Season 1Episode 160 min

Iraq - Cradle of Civilizaion

In places like Uruk and Eridu in modern-day Iraq, humans founded the first cities nearly 6,000 years ago. They left us literature, astronomy, and mathematics, as well as lessons in overpopulation and environmental stewardship.
Aug 13, 1991
India - Empire of the Spirit
Season 1Episode 260 min

India - Empire of the Spirit

Beginning 5,000 years ago, the "Land of the Seven Rivers" cultivated a tradition of nonviolence, renunciation of the material world, and a focus on humans' inner life. Today, these ideas survive in tension with the vestiges of Western colonialism.
Aug 20, 1991
China - The Mandate of Heaven
Season 1Episode 360 min

China - The Mandate of Heaven

With great thinkers such as Confucius and Lao-Tzu, the Chinese conceived a civilization reflecting cosmic harmony, sustained by civic and social virtue, ancient ritual, and reverence for ancestors.
Aug 27, 1991
Egypt - The Habit of Civilization
Season 1Episode 460 min

Egypt - The Habit of Civilization

In the world's first great nation, the annual flooding of the Nile conferred not only fertility, but also a deep respect for social and cosmic stability, a belief in the resurrection of the dead, and the hope of eternal life.
Sep 10, 1991
Central America - The Burden of Time
Season 1Episode 560 min

Central America - The Burden of Time

Independent of great civilizations elsewhere, the Maya and Aztecs developed a violent, fatalistic culture, envisioning a cosmos that required bloody sacrifice for renewal. It placed the sovereignty of nature above all else - even human life.
Sep 17, 1991
The Barbarian West
Season 1Episode 660 min

The Barbarian West

Now adopted nearly all over the globe, the modern Western ideas of individualism, property, and purposeful history trace their roots to Christianity, Greco-Roman humanism, and Germanic social values.
Sep 24, 1991

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