CNN Millennium

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  • Premiered: Oct 1999
  • Episodes: 10
  • Followers: 0
  • Ended
  • CNN
  • Sunday
  • Documentary History Mini-series

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Season 1
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The Eleventh Century: Century of the Sword
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Oct 24, 1999
Survey the world in AD 1000 and see that China was the most vibrant, open and technologically advanced civilization. Islam, less than 400 yars old, had become the most far reaching .. show full overview
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The Twelfth Century: Century of the Axe
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Oct 31, 1999
All over the world people challenged nature and a century of ambitious building began. At Pueblo Bonito, in the American Southwest, a monumental city rose from the desert. Vast new .. show full overview
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The Thirteenth Century: Century of the Stirrup
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Nov 07, 1999
Genghis Khan and his Mongol horsemen thundered across Asia, creating the largest empire the world has ever known. The Mongols were ferocious warriors, but they imposed peace on the lands .. show full overview
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The Fourteenth Century: Century of the Scythe
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Nov 14, 1999
Black Death, the catastrophic plague that invaded Europe from the East, cut short the new prosperity. Treatment varied from the magical to the scientific. In Cairo, the number of deaths .. show full overview
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The Fifteenth Century: Century of the Sail
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Nov 21, 1999
China set out to dominate the seas. These new trade ventures were extremely lucrative, but after 30 years Ming bureaucrats forbade further voyages and abandoned maritime imperialism. .. show full overview
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The Sixteenth Century: Century of the Compass
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Nov 28, 1999
This was a century when the empires and religions of the world expanded aggressively. Diego de Landa, a Spanish missionary, converted thousands of Mayans in Yucatan, torturing them .. show full overview
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The Seventeenth Century: Century of the Telescope
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Dec 05, 1999
The role of the scientist changed dramatically. Greatest of all the new gentlemen scientists was Isaac Newton, whose experiments with the laws of nature were undertaken to reveal God, .. show full overview
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The Eighteenth Century: Century of the Furnace
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Dec 12, 1999
This was a century in which revolutionary ideas ignited and transformed society. Western scientists undertook heroic expeditions to determine the shape of the world. People began to .. show full overview
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The Nineteenth Century: Century of the Machine
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Dec 17, 1999
The steam engine transformed travel and transport as railways and steamships encircled the earth. Thomas Cook invented mass tourism. Darwin's Theory of Evolution and book The Origin of .. show full overview
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The Twentieth Century: Century of the Globe
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Dec 26, 1999
For the first time, mankind saw the world as a whole. Sigmund Freud explored the human psyche. Science split the atom. DNA revealed the origin of life. The bloodbath of World War I, the .. show full overview

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