Aired: Mar 5, 2012This episode follows the birth of civilization in Anatolia and the Middle Eas...
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Season 1 Episode 4: The Renaissance and Islam
In this film we will reveal how a golden age of invention and scholarship thrived in the Islamic World at a time when Europe lingered in a dark age; how Muslim scholars brought together for the first time the ideas of the Greeks and Romans with Persian and Indian mathematics and astronomy and developed it into the beginnings of modern Science. We will reveal the first contacts by which European scholars discovered this treasury of knowledge and how it was developed by generations of Arab-admi...
