Legacy. Disc 3 [videorecording] : the origins of civilization / written and presented by Michael Wood ; produced and directed by Peter Spry-Leverton ; made in association with Maryland Public Television and NHK Enterprises, Inc. ; a Central Production for ITV.
Legacy (Television program) Central America, the burden of time. Burden of time. Europe, the barbarian West. Barbarian West.
Notes:
Title from container and menu screen. Hosted by Michael Wood. Originally broadcast on television in 1991. Bonus: When giants walked the Earth: profiles of great thinkers of the Axial Age (profiles Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Homer, and Thucydides).
Contents:
Europe: the barbarian West. Europe: the barbarian West.
Summary:
Central America, the burden of time: Independent of great civilizations elsewhere, the Maya and Aztecs developed a fatalistic culture, envisioning a cosmos that required bloody sacrifice for renewal. It placed the sovereignty of nature above all else -- even human life. Europe, the barbarian West: Now adopted nearly all over the globe, the modern Western ideas of individualism, property, and purposeful history trace their roots to Christianity, Greco-Roman humanism, and Germanic social values.
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