Three hundred men stood in a narrow pass and told the largest empire on Earth: come and take it. This is the entire story of Ancient Greece — a thousand quarrelling city-states that invented democracy, the Olympics and philosophy, beat Persia twice against impossible numbers, tore themselves apart in a twenty-seven-year war against each other, and then watched a twenty-year-old conquer the entire known world by the age of thirty-two.
Chapters:
0:00 Fight in the Shade
0:48 What the Scoreboard Will Prove
1:38 A Thousand Cities, One Language
3:05 The Giant Wakes in the East
4:38 Three Hundred and a Sea Trick
6:37 Athens Invents Everything
8:26 The War That Ate Greece
10:08 The Boy Who Took the World
12:01 The Country That Became an Idea
13:11 The Verdict
Sources: Encyclopaedia Britannica; Smithsonian Magazine; World History Encyclopedia.
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