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10. China's Han Dynasty - The First Empire in Flames

A city in ruins. A dynasty in tatters. An empire in ashes... This episode, we look at the remarkable story of the first empire of ancient China, the Han dynasty. With ancient Chinese poetry, songs and folk music, we look back at the first empire's rise, its remarkable technological advances, and its first, tentative attempts to make contact with the empires of the west. Finally, we look at all the reasons behind the first age of Imperial China's final, dramatic fall. Credits: Sound engineering by Thomas Ntinas Voice Actors: Claire Hynes Jake Barrett-Mills Shem Jacobs Alex Peattie Music by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: incompetech.com/

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  18. Egypt - Fall of the Pharaohs

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  17. Carthage - Empire Of The Phoenicians

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  16. Bagan - City Of Temples

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  15. The Nabataeans - The Final Days Of Petra

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  14. Vijayanagara - The Last Emperors Of South India

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  13. The Assyrians - Empire of Iron

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  12. The Inca - Cities in the Cloud

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  11. Byzantium - Last of the Romans

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  9. The Aztecs - A Clash of Worlds

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  8. The Sumerians - Fall of the First Cities

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  7. The Songhai Empire - Africa's Age of Gold

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  6. Easter Island - Where Giants Walked

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  5. The Khmer Empire - Fall of the God Kings

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  4. The Greenland Vikings - Land of the Midnight Sun

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  3. The Mayan Collapse - Ruins Among the Trees