Episode 7 – Between Lions and Men
The Ancient World
Scott C.
4.6 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2012
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 1:04.0 | Episode 7 Between Lions and Men |
| 1:11.0 | I want to begin this episode by returning to two areas we haven't visited for a while, China and India, |
| 1:17.0 | and then spend some time discussing the Mycenaean Greeks in the period between their conquest of Crete and their even more |
| 1:24.5 | legendary conquest of Troy. We last left China as the first Chinese dynasty, the |
| 1:30.6 | Zia, took power in roughly 2,100 BC. The Zia ruled the country for the next few |
| 1:36.8 | hundred years. By 1700 BC, when the throne was passed down to the ruler G. A. The Zia clan had nearly exhausted its power and legitimacy. |
| 1:47.0 | G. A himself was generally considered corrupt and irresponsible, |
| 1:51.0 | the common example being that he ordered the construction of a new... corrupt and |
| 1:55.0 | irresponsible, he ordered the construction of a new palace that took seven years and tens of |
| 1:58.0 | thousands of slaves to build, and in the process nearly bankrupt the state. |
| 2:02.0 | There are even crazier stories of in the process nearly bankrupt the state. |
| 2:03.3 | There are even crazier stories of his debauchery, including huge orgies taking place on lakes |
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