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Mankind is one most creative documentary ever made, Warriors starts at 450 A.D. when the Roman empire collapses, the Vandals a Germanic warriors took Rome and rules there, then the next segment is about the Arabs who finds gold on the desert, it happens in same period of time that prophet Mahammed established a new religion, the Islam, they covered all north of Africa and Middle East, they are wise and developed art and studies also mathematic, one of them called Ahamad ibn Fadlam travelled to Northern Europe, there he starts trade with Vikings, which he wrote how was the whole ceremonial of the King's ship funeral, through this Arabic we known how it was done, also how the Vikings spreading around the Europe and finds new lands as America 500 years before Columbus and the names of the cities that they named including Country name as Russia, later they adopted the Christianity as their religion, without forget the first man to fly at Cordoba Spain, Abbas ibn Firnas, a Muslin when they ruled the half Spain, this men was a true genius really, astronomy, Medicine and Engineering were your interest, also they talk about the Crusades at Holy land where many religions living together without any animosity until under order of Pope Urban starts a bloody and useless wars, a fabulous History documentary!!

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First watch: 2019 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD-R / Rating: 8.5

I'm mostly enjoying the series except in episode 4 in the re-telling of the Crusades there was no mention of the Muslim conquests that preceded them. The Crusades purpose was to restore access to holy lands that were conquered previously by Mohammad and Rushindun and other warring Muslims. There is no mention of that at all; no mention of the Byzantine - Arab wars, no mention of the Muslim take-over of North Africa, Constantinople, Syria, Cypress, Georgia, etc. The Crusades, by all accounts, were brutal and horrific and I wish they'd never happened. But,when retelling history it is pertinent to report the context under which events took place. Unfortunately the producers fail to do that and the portrayal of the Crusades appear to be an unprovoked unilateral slaughtering of innocent Muslims. Why such an intellectual dishonest production? It's very important to tell the whole truth, always. Without the whole story all you have is a propaganda piece. The producers of this travesty really need to explain themselves. Is it "political correctness"? People who think that Truth matters prefer plain "correctness," no modifier needed just as you don't need one for the word "truth".