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Engineering an Empire
8.08
Ratings: 8.08/10 from 63 users.
Engineering an Empire is a program on The History Channel that explores the engineering and/or architectural feats that were characteristic of some of the greatest societies on this planet.
Engineering an Empire has received critical acclaim. The premiere Rome received an Emmy for outstanding documentary. Egypt also received positive reviews.
This program includes the following episodes: Rome, Egypt, Greece, Greece: Age of Alexander, The Aztecs, Carthage, The Maya: Death Empire, Russia, Britain: Blood and Steel, The Persians, China, Napoleon: Steel Monster, The Byzantines and Da Vinci's World.
Why in the Hell isn't there a episode about Japan? I'm insulted, and I'm American... not Japanese, that says a lot that there is something wrong with History Channel not doing an Engineering An Empire episode on Japan!
I Demand an episode about Japan, and any other Empire or civilization that was left out!
Still living the dream that the Egyptians build the pyramids and they they were used as tombs regardless of new evidence to the contrary
Zheung He, the soprano conqueror =D
Very interesting topics but the production is overly sensational, at times bordering on silly. Descriptions and diagrams are poor and scarce (and those gratuitous animated circles don't help).
Brilliant series! thoroughly enjoyed it. Peter Weller is awesome
I love how it links to the whole series in a playlist when you go click the youtube button. I've already watched Rome, Greece, Byzantine, Da Vinci's Times, ok so probably most of them.
Amazing series. Science and technology fueling civilizations. Reflections of our own time. People living in some of these civilizations of the past seemed to have had the quality of life..or better:P..than now. Change seems to always be one idea away.
@arifkarim islam/muslim is only 1500 years old. mohammad didnt imagine the religion of islam in the period that this documentry is focusing on. ancient arabs were persians or egyptians (or even jews, bet that makes you happy) which have nothing to do with the religion of islam. maybe you are a little over-glorified in your history of the religion of islam and not educated about arabs as a group of people from a region or certain genetic background.
A good well rounded History channel series of ancient architectures role in empire building. Worth the watch; contrary to some comments below, both eastern and western civilizations are well represented.(our builders have certainly influenced one another) and now I see why we don't build like we used to-imagine taking hundreds of years and a quarter million people to build something today- and the few (Greece for example) who actually paid their crafts people, repeatedly took themselves to the brink of bankruptcy (billions to build the Parthenon), and those who used slaves? - repeatedly bought themselves a People's revolution, losing heads as well as cash. Hmm - makes one wonder if we have really learned anything from history. Recommended.
great doc. educational
This one was a long watch, but worth it. I learned some things, and got a better handle on other things that I already knew about. It's amazing how much the ancient civilizations knew, only to be lost and later re-invented. A little too similar to the 17 hour doc we saw earlier this week, but still a good watch.
It's to laggy to watch.
please put down your weapons.. you have 20 seconds to comply :o
you got to love the hosts enthusiasm for the subject
Can I download this video and watcvh it on my tv? How?
Aw, I really want to watch this, but the video stops and starts every 2 secs... Vlatko- help!
Where is the architecture from islamic / arab world? :D
I love how westeners deliberately not mention anything about the scientific achievements of ancient arab / islamic world :D
This must be based on the standard first year college level western civ. course, it follows right along with my old text book. The only difference is that they seemed to have started with Egypt and we started with Mesopotamia, UR, Gilgamesh and all that jive. But, from where they start they follow right along with the text book entitled Western Civilizations Volume I by Judith G. Coffin and Robert C. Stacey. They elaborate more on the topics they address than the book does, but they address the same topics in the same order. I enjoyed it, if you watch them in order you get a fairly basic over all sense of how we got to where we are now. I should say though that I stopped watching when they got to the Russian empire, I can't comment on anything past that.
Actually I just noticed that I started at Da Vinci's world, not at the beginning. I was wrong, its not in the same order as my book, just close. If you start at Da Vinci's world it is in the same order from that point up to the empires of Russia. The difference seems to be that they incorporated Eastern civilizations into the time line as well as Western, which is definitely a more accurate picture of history. Good stuff.
nice!
11 hours of pleasurable study :)