The Silk Road - Light From Darkness | Full Documentary

How the Silk Road Made the World: Episode2 - Light From Darkness - explores how disease and life spread along the Silk Road to change the world.
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[@LaRusso]

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

[@smroog]

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

[@robertarevalo5137]

This episode is awesome.... I generally have a feel of people who know what they're talkin about... This show has really given me an education... Very well put together.... I was scrolling for about an hour and this was the last resort.... What a gem!

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

Really, it's a super wonderful documentary about the massive and passive existence and remarkable importance of the Silk Road ...thank you Get.factual channel for sharing 3:54

[@get.factual]

Thank you for your comment 🤩

[@batoncharge]

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,😆👍

[@kathynicklas9845]

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

[@smroog]

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

[@vinceb4380]

From Dark to Light and Light to Bright! Humanity must agree to cooperate together peacefully in order to achieve Harmony and Truth.🕊️🕊️🕊️

[@zipei1673]

🙏

[@ymhktravel]

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.

[@Wann-zo7rn2qn4i]

We human beings really have not 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.

[@wandarichards5587]

Scapegoating

[@chriscarrol9373]

Well NIMBY works well also if they look just like you but don't follow the exact same social norms as you. Racism is actually a small part of descimanory spectrum.

[@chriscarrol9373]

Richard Leakey pointed out a horse can mate with a Wild Ass and produce fertile offspring yet are more distant in DNA than a human and a chimp. Just a genetic fact. We should be ok as we are not animals rite???

[@rickmarti77]

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.

[@diannamaree7854]

What? Not heard of Galen? Why am I surprised when Dr. 's barely study nutrition 😢

[@philoso377]

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.

[@chris.asi_romeo]

Love watching your videos.

[@get.factual]

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[@thimmee.948]

Fantastic video.

[@lumberpilot]

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.

[@okmmauh]

Slave system

[@kellyross4801]

I learned in school that this* is the basis of culture and civilization. If you produce surplus, you don't have to spend literally every waking moment searching for food.

[@DG-iw3yw]

Love how cannabis ruderalis is also a fantastic example synonymous with these millet grains. A crop that finished in about two months aswell, any time of year.

[@lulubelle0bresil]

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

[@petermorris2944]

Yep, jumped in here for this comment.

[@Cracktune]

immediate sub.

[@Sam-gz4fu]

Istanbul etymology comes from Greek, meaning this is the city

[@joanhuffman2166]

26:54 on a different program that focused on plague, they discussed recent findings that plague can be spread with the human body lice (the kind that live in clothing).

[@chriscarrol9373]

One should study history as it's interesting how many times it repeats itself. At least you'll know what probably will be coming???

[@yoke-munchan1813]

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.

[@SandyRiverBlue]

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

[@adamtyson3962]

@50:50 the claim that Istanbul is "from a Turkish word meaning: 'find Islam'" is complete nonsense. I'm not sure how that got into an otherwise great documentary. It comes from the Turkified Greek phrase "eis tan polis" (εἰς τὴν Πόλιν) meaning "to the city." Perhaps they got confused by another occasional name for Ottoman Istanbul which was "Islambul" which does mean "find Islam" in Turkish as "bul" would be the mandative form of bulmek, the verb "to find."

[@Ai-he1dp]

It seens to have come around again, full circle.

[@ymhktravel]

Yeah, kinda familiar isn't it? Ming Dynasty China has traded and exchanged goods with Africa, Middle East and gave maritime security to nations along the route centuries ago. Fast forward to present, China is again making inroads to countries in Africa and perhaps the Mid-east. Surely is one full circle and it's not over yet.

[@radhesyamaji]

❤❤❤

[@dancummane3668]

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

[@philoso377]

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

[@Andy_Babb]

I don’t think any part of that makes sense… just sayin

[@Andy_Babb]

I don’t think any part of that makes sense… just sayin.

[@philoso377]

@@Andy_Babb try it yourself carry merchandise and no water or food on a long journey as such.

[@harispilling1042]

selamat menyambut tahun baharu 1445 awal muharam

[@asdasikdaisncxzinaskdnmf]

SO MOTE IT BE

[@gussampson5029]

I had to laugh when this German woman said she was excited to find graves with multiple bodies in them lol. Must be a German tradition.

[@jeffreypierce1440]

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

[@DH-yb3eo]

zhenghe brought it to American

[@hawkingdawking4572]

Corn is a general word for grain. The grain of Maize is native to Americas. Chinese got it from European traders after the 1500s.

[@adnvlog5984]

Sebelum di monopoli barat, dengan uang kertas yang tak berharga

[@pattyandbustershow1031]

Marmots from the east, not rats

[@artistforfreedom]

you lose viewership by not providing vocal translation

[@elastokim-nova7495]

The best thing is, no india.

[@hawkingdawking4572]

India had nothing to offer over land.

[@Anonymous------]

@@hawkingdawking4572 India had nothing at all to offer to the world except only one thing that greatly influenced the world: opium! The thing that would become heroin!

[@donicagiorgio]

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