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.
Episodes
How the earliest humans spread around the world, adapting and surviving against the odds.
The story of the first empires which laid the foundations for the modern world.
Charting the spiritual revolutions that shook the world between 300 BC and 700 AD.
The Middle Ages, when Vikings explored and pillaged.
Europe's rise from piracy to private enterprise.
A time when people worldwide rose up in the name of freedom and equality.
How Britain's Industrial Revolution created the modern world.
The atom bomb and other developments in the twentieth century – our age.
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