Mankind: The Story of All of Us (2012) s01e03 Episode Script

Empires

and seek power and build in part reconnect one man's life and death touch the lives million the will transform the destiny of an empire change the story all about amidst the chaos have an unforgiving plan most P six will fail for one all the pieces will fall into place and a set of keys will unlock a path for mankind try this is our story the story all about jerusalem 33 a team provincial city under Roman rule occupied for 100 years man has been sentenced to death up today will be executed but his death launch global removed today forgive mankind.
worships in his name Jesus match jerusalem is on the eastern edge the Roman Empire bass networker Road in trade one of the keys to mankind's prague mass communication now an idea born in the Middle East can spread around Rome but half a million people were in jerusalem past but Jewish festival celebrating accidents from each in among them followers news they believe used in missile but his teachings threatened from for that be crucial in Rome special punishment for Pirates slaves an enemies at the station thousands of people died this week but we remember one man we remember you 1 death as if it was the only one in because this one gas change every or every 400 Europe a in the crowd advised time from Siri colony in North Africa up a that up sign a serene was a guy who just happen to be in jerusalem here was this procession going by hand was a man carrying a cross and he was around by Roman soldiers inning a week will be here in case this guy's cross by and so we've got a calming down the street is now involved in this in this pivotal moment in history on on it can take three days to die on the cross blood loss shock dehydration suffocation I'm I'm %uh world sir the new crucifixion czar so common the Romans barely register Jesus style this is not an event this thing that nobody knows except as friends and family turned out to have the power to transform the entire Roman Empire and the course of human history more profoundly than any other single man over the past two thousand years the followers of Jesus will retell his story use the power of the empire to spread his message 1400 miles from jerusalem the imperial capital wrong largest city on the map population one million it's two-and-a-half times more densely populated modern man had but eighteen years after the crucifixion series of drought creates a food children Rome reach 200,000 tons of grain each year rich people store up one in five are already on welfare the mayor of New York City mayor have Washington DC faces many the same problems that the Roman emperors did in managing the most important city of the ancient world roams ruler emperor Claudius disabled in secure the most powerful man in the Western world all emperors had to please populism bring home the bacon so to speak by Claudius had to try harder than other rulers to legitimize his rule as emperor claudius is regarded as a god but he still needs the support of his people to stay in power the orders handouts for the poor but there's not enough bread go around riots were a part of life well it was a way that the people had a getting messages across to the ruler and the ruler ignore that at their peril a the previous employer click was assassinated in claudius could be next a the best way for an emperor to win over the public on bill eight miles from the city one of the largest engineering projects in the empire a mighty akward up to carry water to the city Roman engineers carver round 345 miles countryside the caramel permount the bridge to cross bally's it'll be bass structures across huge amount to space without dynamite without any kind a modern told and yet they're so well bill that fifteen hundred years after the end of civilization those structured to sleep the act with doctors powered by gravity needs to drop 14 every 300 too steep in the water will overflow shallow it'll run dry up personage in engineering the secret to Roman construction a revolutionary new building material easy to mall it sets rock on concrete people talk about the Bronze Age in the Iron Age and in many ways ever since the Romans we've been living in the concrete aged key ingredient chrome in concrete is volcanic ash in Rome is surrounded by fifty book came today two-thirds mankind live in buildings made of concrete hey am home the Act would %uh cost the equivalent of in three-quarter billion dollars 10 time more than Hoover Dam home you have to imagine people coming into Rome getting some with their first impressions about this this center and the empire from this massive engineering project it was advertising roams power no so everyone knows who build responders the Emperor names at after himself aqua Claudy the waters have clawed takes fourteen years to bill 400,000 blocks in stone six million cubic feet of concrete Rome Zach without delivered $250 million gallons of water day enough for 1300 fountains 900 baths and a 144 public torrents rome is the most advanced City in the world apartment blocks six stories high each with up to 380 resin under the road a sewage system helps sweep away 55 tons of waste day there's a police force the fire brigade the postal service 30 libraries three feeders and eighty temples wrong the world's first make use the today for the first time in history the over half us live in cities home across the world there are 21 cities with a population above $10 million the based on the blueprint pioneered by Rome two thousand years ago low the Roman more than the city it's an empire it'll spread its civilization across Europe and beyond and it will do it by Kong the 61 PD and improve use force 800 miles from Rome mankind's spread civilization Kong Romans are heading for Europe's North West Frontier in command general sewer tony is power lines ruthless determine his roams in force having crushed an uprising in North Africa his orders are to do the same in Britain up for twenty years Britons have waged a guerrilla war against Roman occupation a by expert drive fears warriors collect the head their end leading the resistance a mystical sector priests mood ruins I'll they worship the Sun the moon in the forests drew it means man ok going and Roman writers regard them as barbarians and claim they practice human sacrifice the altars were heaped with hideous offerings and every tree was sprinkled with human gore Rome has its eyes on Britain's natural regions its precious metals deep underground lead vital track with docs mom iron copper in 10 for tools and weapons them and silver to bankroll Roman army rooms economic model was built on expanding the Empire to do that you need to have a perpetual war machine that's capable of conquest after com system up to 50 percent from spending goes on the military more than double the proportion US government spends today mankind's first full-time professional army each soldiers armed with gladis the short sword made from steel designed for close quarter combat a pillow heavyweight job seven feet long with a lethal medals fight and she'll used in defense and attack his politeness is man make contact with britain's writer task is describes the sea druids lifted their hands to the heavens invoking the guard and pouring forth horrible curses our troops weren't all such a spectacle but along this has been a commander for twenty years he knows he has the firepower to destroy the rap you can have passion you guts but you were up against military might like Rome that passion wanes quickly those cuts fade to fear and the next thing you know you're a Concord peep the battle tactics all the Roman army were rehearsed and drilled Andrea past and drilled to a fault so the in the chaos and destruction I'll battle everyone did their child I'm what to do the by the time to Linus is finished in Britain his men kill as many as 80,000 people and the rebel stronghold destroyed the Druids annihilate once a land is conquered the first priority a network roads the Roman soldier was a versatile soldier he wasn't just a fighting machine he wasn't engineer Road a bridge builder this man get you could hop rapid deployment on the Roman army grim Roman Rome 23 feet across wide enough for an army March 6 abreast Roman roads connect Roman town in Concord people become citizens of the empire I'm Paris London Barcelo made out to the same design them batons mop engine remap home to wanna Rome's most popular exports the game virtual teams were mass entertainment it's the reality TV above the agent world there are 400 arenas across the Empire the largest hold 50,000 admission to the games this free everyone can enjoy the benefits of romance a blizzard most gladiators are slaves forced to fight but others are freemen looking for fame glory gladiator swept is collected bottled and sold as an aphrodisiac in I need it was like a rockstar their fans you can even see in the graffiti love notes from from from women to the to their favorite gladiators talk gladiator earn the equivalent of two hundred thousand dollars a fight but most are before they turned 23 Rome is at the height vids I'll its empire dominates Europe North Africa in the Middle East a fifth mankind is under Roman rule but on known to the Romans on the other side of the world there is another in just as big and power 166 AD Roman merchants their names lost to history 5,000 miles from home for two years they have crossed oceans mountains and as getting beyond India tool and they've heard over only in whispers somewhere other fringe the world your with us I'm is very read in stage China the first Romans to set worked in the Chinese camp nor young inter another world were young China roaming merchants 5,000 miles from a ride by if Carmen searcher still old the Romans were obsessed with Chinese silk and they would cross ocean think costlier in pursuit 0 these exotic pouring good it not what they needed but in going after what they wanted Roman spend the equivalent of 2.
2 billion dollars a year importing luxuries like still from middleman in India and Central Asia but they don't know where so comes from or how it's made they think it grows on trees soap manufacturing is a state secret in China no Chinese weaver is to share that knowledge before China knows the value itself castle export quality it's a secret Chinese Garden for three thousand years of im the Roman merchants are granted an audience in the Imperial pounds Emperor want who came to the throne age forty and purged his family from the core the most powerful man in the eastern war on trade as fascinating affects it involves the exchange of goods but this also involves the contact with people from different places people are meeting each other speaking each other's languages adapting to each other's cultural practices learning about each other's traditions the world becomes a more interconnect place when trade is going well few jobs all he was showing up the Emperor welcomes the Romans but doesn't lead on house okays min today it is no longer a secret com silk is a natural fiber spawned by so porns in earl or buy produce a single thread to make comes it takes two thousand so forms to make a pound so for the next three hundred years China remains the world's great exporter of cell travels west India the Middle East into Europe a five thousand-mile trade route the soap bro the Romans wanted Chinese habit as a result silk connected the east and west for the very first time in human history the soap road becomes a kind of channel on which goods people ideas our means religions are moving back and forth trade booms but also the flow of ideas ideas that will transform the future of mankind Damascus Syria four years after the crucifixion man is on the run Paul preacher trouble-maker and the most important convert in the story of Christianity before his conversion on the road to Damascus persecuted Christians now he will turn into insignificance sack into a world with age today he is known as safe home he was a passionate guy he was a guy with grit in really believe in his God I really believe in His gospel really believed in that Christ was was the was the only way for spreading the message that Christ is the mid-sized calls a wanted man up to jewish leaders he's a hair top to the Romans rabble ship if caught will be executed Damascus is a waltz at relocation have withdrawn way Paul's escape route over the walls well ok good for twenty years Paul travels the Roman Empire contacting other believers ok spreading a message 0 he's telling people Christianity creates salvation for anyone if you have a a slave who is being abused by its master was a horrible life in the next life his master will get what he deserves slave if he's a good man who accepts Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior will get what he deserves ok Paul writes letters to fellow Christians around the Empire Romans vessel own use and Corinthians I'll they make up nearly half at the New Testament %uh there is no longer a Jew or Greek sleep slave or free e-mail male or female for all if you are one Jesus Christ we who are many are one body in Christ least love is patient love is patient client love is not jealous or boastful did not Arrogant Worms those letters become very much like the Twitter tweets that we see during the year spring I'll this was the communication the time it was very much longer but one radar when I was a child I da like a child I thought like a child agrees as a child 0 Paul's letters are entrusted to other believers %uh deliver them across the Empire what became an inch I put away childish things on by this time Rome has built a quarter of a million miles of roads enough to circle the Earth ten times on shipping lanes connect 250 major ports this is how Paul spreads the word so faith pope and love abide these three greatest the greatest these is low the story of early Christianity really speaks to the power of ideas that is what creates history that's what changes people that's what makes it was Asian its ideas and always start with ideas a hundred and fifty years later on the outskirts of Carthage one of the largest ports in the Roman Empire movies a group of Christians me chicken soup mentality private house double up as churches way on me early Christianity was a religious movement for the extremely poor for the slaves and for many women basically anyone who didn't have a voice in Roman society could find a voice in the christiane across the Empire eight million people are slaves with no rights in Roman law %um him 30 million are women who can't vote or hold public office ok among them perpetual the 22 years old a new mother and and a subversive thing a year earlier an imperial decree made conversion to Christianity legal anymore converts like perpetual are now enemies of the state their crime refusing to honor the Roman gods yet we'll all be crazy to be Christian it was enough to get you killed because you're saying you're legions was to Christ into his palm and not to the Emperor two women always looking over your shoulder like you know it is someone following the York are I is some someone know my Christian Union paranoid YouTube income above free even to really talking with openly the Empire's secret police the freemen tar the use in network oven former's to hunt down dissidents bpm up perpetuates charged with treason she sent to prison to wait for free the she keeps a diary the earliest words that still survive written by Christian warm I'm not to fight with beasts but against the devil and I know that victory is waiting for the old to mint test for any believer to die for your face the Christian dissident perpetual faces a horrible death in the arena costs %uh Christians are thrown to wild animals were covered in tar and burned alive or be had but perpetual can still save herself if she makes an offering to the Roman gods the Romans come to these people in this who worked for storing up trouble for us makes some public declaration that says you're not against the state I admit that the Emperor zagat I and that will show that you're OK prepare to his family visitor in prison she's allowed to nurse her baby her father pleads with her to back down and accept the Romans 200 said have PD under do not abandon me PD on your baby give up your pride tried to comfort him saying will happen as gardens a real Christian can't announce their religion they can do in public and in private they can do it in their heart they can't do it all because they will burn in hell for ever back to believe them imagine how profoundly courageous women have to be put your life on the line it's a yes I am a follower ag's Christ the courage to do that that's simple act speaks volumes about power faith home further according to her diary perpetual goes willingly trigger her courage inspires one of the prison guards a man called prudence to confer ok thousands of Christians rex King the to become known as martyrs but the more Christians the Roman skill the more popular the religion becomes in 100 years the number of followers grows from 200,000 to six million one in 10 people in the Empire his Christian from North Africa to britain the religion become so common all laws against her lips and then a watershed moment in the year is 337 the Emperor Constantine is dying he makes a decision that will shape the future of the Roman Empire the times arrived I'm long hoped-for with firms desire Prater and I'm lines hoped to gain the selfish of God the most powerful man in the Western world is bound for hundreds in years Christianity was being quelled and put down by the Roman Empire in persecuted now its okay depression way I'll once constantine is baptized the whole Empire then shipped towards Christianity and then anybody who wants a cake politically and economically need to be a Christian as well a new Christian capital rises in the east to the Empire Constantineau today his tomb at its heart a church larger than any temple in Rome higher so be the Church of the Holy was today there are 2.
2 billion Christian nearly a third have the world's population his followers have changed every part every portion from every corner of the earth in that has to be understood have the power this one portion over two thousand years ago one man's to Middle East inspires a message that spreads around the world the world connected like never before Christianity the lasting legacy of the Roman Empire program pyres for remake of the we innovate and explore new idea new opportunities but also new comp clash have civilization
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