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The Secrets to Civilization

The Secrets to Civilization

Modern science reveals the environmental forces that have shaped human history.
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    Bronze Age Catastrophe
    Cities and Empires
    Empire and Epidemics
  • Bronze Age Catastrophe

    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.
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  • Cities and Empires

    The 1st Millennium BCE in the Mediterranean is the birth of the modern world.
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  • Empire and Epidemics

    With the help of top scientists and historians including Kyle Harper, author of bestseller The Fate of Rome, look into what science is now telling about the impact of disease in toppling the Roman Empire.
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Modern science reveals the environmental forces that have shaped human history.

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