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Thks documentary explores the timeline and context of the Tet Offensive, one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War.
From the 900-year-old remains of Angkor Wat in the Cambodian jungle the staggering City of the God Kings is recreated.
The History of the United States of America summarized in under 15 minutes.
In upper Afghanistan, Kate Humble of the BBC meets traditional shepherds in the remote Wakhan Corridor.
The most important developmental period in the history of civilization was from roughly 1500 to the present. This was the time of an ascendant and expansive Europe. However, the history of Western Civilization is a history of people, places, events, ideas, all of which must be explained with a deep appreciation to historical context. Indeed, as the rise of China looks to many to be the defining political event of the 21st century, 500 years ago it was China who stood poised to dominate the world. Let’s compare two rivers and what was going on around them in the 15th century.
The Yangtze River in China was part of a thousand-mile-long Grand Canal, running from the China Sea through the imperial capital Nanjing (400 miles inland) and on to the soon-to-be-new imperial capital of Beijing. Through this artery flowed the lifeblood of commerce for the Ming Dynasty (1368CE-1644CE). Nanjing contained over one million people and was, quite probably, the world’s largest city. A twenty-mile-long and heavily fortified wall protected the city of one million people from attack. This civilization had already produced an 11,095-volume encyclopedia, astronomical observatories, seed drills, water clocks, gunpowder and ink. In other words, Ming China was at the cutting edge of discovery, trade, knowledge, and well-positioned to lead the way into the Modern Era.
On the other side of the world, the Thames in England ran through the capital of the most prosperous kingdom in Europe, England. By the early 1420, the Black Death had reduced the population of London to 40,000 and life expectancy was about thirty-seven years old, with one-in-five babies born in England dying before reaching their first birthday. (In London, the figure stood at one-in-three!) Within a year, King Henry V would be dead, at age thirty-five, from dysentery while fighting in France. Violence would remain endemic across the British Isles. As Thomas Hobbes so famously put it, life for most people was solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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