The Story of India

The Power of Ideas (500 BCE - 200 BCE) (1x2)

Uitzenddatum: Aug 31, 2007

Michael Wood’s epic series moves on to the revolutionary years after 500BC - the Age of the Buddha. Travelling by rail to the ancient cities of the Ganges plain, by army convoy through Northern Iraq, and on down the Khyber Pass, he shows how Alexander the Great’s invasion of India inspired her first empire.