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What the Ancients Did for Us - Season 1 - Episode 8 - The Greeks
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Watch Series: What the Ancients Did for Us Released in (2005) - Season 1 - Episode 8 ,airing date 2005-04-06 produced by UK, The TV Series categorized in Documentary, and content rating 9h with duration 60 min broadcasted as these networks BBC Two, BBC, Streamed at Putlocker & directed by Martin Kemp, Kate Murray. The ancient Greek civilisation flourished for about a thousand years, not as a unified country but rather as a loose association of city states, both on the mainland of Greece and elsewhere around the Mediterranean. The philosopher Plato described the states as being like a series of frogs sitting around a pond. Although the Greeks drew on the ideas of various earlier civilisations, they were the people who, more than any other, handed down to us the foundations of our democracy, our notions of ethics and justice, our science, our mathematics and our music.
But it mustn't be forgotten that the Greeks were a warlike lot and in order to pursue their territorial ambitions they invented some deadly weapons – for instant take the bow and arrow. Aware of its limitations and short range they mechanised it like a giant cross bow. It was loaded by bearing down on it with your whole body weight and it became known as the Belly Bow. The Greeks also invented the catapult and designed monster machi
Genre: Documentary
Actor: Adam Hart-Davis, Marty Jopson, Hermione Cockburn, Jamie Darling, Amani Zain
Creators: Martin Kemp, Kate Murray
Country: UK
Languages: en, English,
Episode: 8
Runtime: 60
Date Modified: 2019-10-21 00:33:06
Air Date: 2005-04-06
Year Released: 2005
Rating: 6.5 out of 10
Content Rating: 9h
Views: 18
Quality: HD
Networks:
BBC Two,
BBC,
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Keywords:Tv Mini Series
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