The Silk Road - Light From Darkness | Full Documentary

Love Craig Parker’s voice narrating this, I knew almost immediately it was him. He has such a soothing voice, perfect for documentaries.

Finally a documentary about the real Silk Road and not a drug website

Marmots from the east, not rats

Umm.. what about all the Slavery? The sex trade? The horror for some, of the real Silk Road.

SO MOTE IT BE

For thousands of years, exotic goods...shows corn.

Chine will better to transform chine..and telling real storys ..not fake (o to mou volevei).. who was constandine???can others story explaine ? Please. ..factual..who was Byzantine empire??factual..😂some artificial stupid ..use not factual..documents

The best thing is, no india.

The images in the intro of corn...corn is from America.

We human beings really have changed for the wiser since the middle ages. Whenever something bad happens, we look for someone who is different from us to blame. How many innocent lives have been lost.

The gunpowder technology was stolen from China. It was a closely guarded secret as the Chinese saw its potential use in warfare. Maybe a first recorded case of "IP" theft by foreign agents. 😄😄

Europe didn't have no hygiene either during those times.

The Black Death started from the Vatican. To kill off all the black Europeans.

It's fascinating how as a certain event unfolded or decisions made (eg. Zheng He's armada and his death stops China's global maritime exploration), how the siege of Constantinople by a Muslim Caliphate spelt the demise of the Silk Road which led Europe to seek new ways to reach Asia and the beginning of European colonisation, etc. All in all that changed the course of history or the trajectory of nations along the way to modern times.

maize/sweet corn is definitely the perfect illustration of "exotic goods" since it existed exclusively in the Americas before 1500C.E.

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EXCELLENT !!! SO MUCH GREAT HISTORY OF CHINA, THANK YOU !!

EXCELLENT !!! EXCELLENT !!! Thank you !! So much like the old documentaries I love without all the loud and obnoxious background NOISE. Thank you.

I remember staying up to watch the original silk road episodes in the mid 80s, it was one episode a week, at about 3.30 in the morning, midweek,😆👍

Love watching your videos.

It seens to have come around again, full circle.

We no longer have the type of timber e.g. size and length.
Just look at the trouble France had to go through to get the timber to rebuild Notre dame.

selamat menyambut tahun baharu 1445 awal muharam

I can see where the ability to produce a surplus amount of grain would not only create room for craftsmen and leaders, but it would also increase the general population the vast majority of which would be farmers creating more and more surplus for a smaller and smaller ruling elite.

Excellent documentary. Well worth the watch. Some of the people who rarely get a mention and should be are here. Few working in the medical profession have heard of Galen for example.

There was a root condition without which Silk Road could not have been possible, things that enable and the sustainability to water and food.

Silk Road may be regarded as the ancient Internet through which goods and ideas were cross referenced, yet we continue to debate on the origin of customs and artifices, be it East or West.