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Back to Search113. Timur: Scourge of God
Season 5 Episode 13
Timur, known to many as Tamburlaine the Great from the iconic Marlowe play. Despite having a limp and struggling to get onto a horse, he erupted from…
2 years, 3 months ago
112. Ferdowsi: How One Poet Saved Persian Civilisation
Season 5 Episode 12
After the Arab conquest, Persia was turned upside down. Patronage went to Islam as opposed to Zoroastrianism. The official language of state was now …
2 years, 3 months ago
111. Shackleton: The Hero of Antarctica
Season 6 Episode 5
As the timber creaked under the pressure of the Antarctic ice, Shackleton knew his voyage aboard the Endurance was doomed. What the ice gets, the ice…
2 years, 3 months ago
110. Antarctica: The Continent that wouldn’t be Conquered
Season 6 Episode 4
Antarctica, the great land of ice. It was first spotted in the early years of the 19th century but it wasn't until 1895 that humans, in the form of a…
2 years, 3 months ago
109. The Endeavour: Into the Unknown
Season 6 Episode 3
With Alexander Dalrymple sidelined, Captain James Cook and Joseph Banks are ready to set off on an expedition to track the Transit of Venus and see w…
2 years, 4 months ago
108. The Endeavour & the Great Southern Continent
Season 6 Episode 2
In the 1760’s a clever, young, ambitious Scotsman named Alexander Dalrymple began advocating a theory as to the existence of a great southern contine…
2 years, 4 months ago
107. China's Greatest Admiral: The Story of Zheng He
Season 6 Episode 1
In the 15th century, Admiral Zheng He, on the orders of the Emperor of China, embarked upon a series of extraordinary voyages of exploration. These v…
2 years, 4 months ago
106. The Rise of Islam
Season 5 Episode 11
With the Sassanian Empire defeated and the Byzantine Empire exhausted, there is a power vacuum in the centre of the world. Both of these superpowers …
2 years, 4 months ago
105. The Last Great War of Antiquity
Season 5 Episode 10
Eurasia is divided into two great superpowers. Khusrow II rules the Sassanian Empire. Maurice, the last of the Justinian dynasty, rules their mighty …
2 years, 4 months ago
104. How Persian Religion Changed the World
Season 5 Episode 9
Three great religions have come out of Persia and all of them have influenced world history. First there was Zoroastrianism, the first monotheistic r…
2 years, 4 months ago