• 2000

Episode list

Conquistadors
All the World Is Human
Tue, Jun 17, 2008
  • S1.E4
  • All the World Is Human
Cabeza de Vaca explores lands that are now part of the southern United States.
8.3 /10
The Conquest of the Incas
Tue, Jun 17, 2008
  • S1.E2
  • The Conquest of the Incas
Michael Wood follows ancient footpaths through the Andes as he recalls "The Conquest of the Incas" by the Pizarro brothers in 1532-33. The empire they conquered, which stretched for 1000 miles from Ecuador to Chile, was "unknown to the whole world" until Francisco Pizarro first visited it in 1527. Five years later he returned with horses and guns. What followed, as Wood quotes one conquistador as recalling, "was the most despicable thing we ever did in the Americas."
8.2 /10
The Search for El Dorado
Tue, Jun 17, 2008
  • S1.E3
  • The Search for El Dorado
The ill-fated 1541 expeditions of Gonzalo and Francisco de Orellano that took them to modern-day Ecuador and then deep into the Amazon in their search for the mythical El Dorado.
8.1 /10
The Fall of the Aztecs

S1.E1 ∙ The Fall of the Aztecs

Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Host Michael Wood follows the route taken by Hernan Cortes (a lawyer by training, not a military man) in his 1519-21 conquest of Mexico. Accompanied at first by just 500 men and a slave woman named Malinche, who spoke both the Aztec and Mayan languages, Cortes first encountered Montezuma's ambassador on Easter Sunday 1519. He was, says Wood, "singlehandedly to destroy a civilization."
7.9 /10
The Conquest of the Incas

S1.E2 ∙ The Conquest of the Incas

Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Michael Wood follows ancient footpaths through the Andes as he recalls "The Conquest of the Incas" by the Pizarro brothers in 1532-33. The empire they conquered, which stretched for 1000 miles from Ecuador to Chile, was "unknown to the whole world" until Francisco Pizarro first visited it in 1527. Five years later he returned with horses and guns. What followed, as Wood quotes one conquistador as recalling, "was the most despicable thing we ever did in the Americas."
8.2 /10
The Search for El Dorado

S1.E3 ∙ The Search for El Dorado

Tue, Jun 17, 2008
The ill-fated 1541 expeditions of Gonzalo and Francisco de Orellano that took them to modern-day Ecuador and then deep into the Amazon in their search for the mythical El Dorado.
8.1 /10
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