Series 1
Series Summary
Tony Robinson travels back through 200,000 years of human history to find out what happened to our ancestors when violent climate change turned their world upside down, and what they teach us as we face our own climate crisis today. While some civilisations flourished, others were destroyed. Vicious and sudden changes to the climate killed millions; but benign change has enabled humans to multiply and develop at an extraordinary pace.
Using CGI effects and stunning imagery, this series illustrates how climate has shaped human history from the beginning. Tony seeks answers at some of the world's most important and intriguing archaeological sites, speaking to leading archaeologists, historians and climate scientists.
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Episodes (4)
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Tony Robinson explores how a small group of our earliest African ancestors were rescued from extinction by the last great global warming…
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Tony Robinson traces how global warming at the end of the last Ice Age was the catalyst for the dawn of civilisation, but also unleashed…
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Tony Robinson picks through the ruins of three great civilisations from the last 2,000 years to ask what made these civilisations more…
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Tony Robinson examines societies similar to our own, who not only survived climate change, but flourished.
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