Engineering An Empire.

[Ever666]

I've bin watching this series on history channel for the last couple month and find myself fascinated with it.

I've always bin interested in topics such as the Roman empire and the empire of Alexander the great and this show has showed in detail how great the engineering of this time actually was.

Tonight it's focusing on the greatness of the persion empire.




Anybody else interested in this subject and catch the show?

[Gusto]

i'll check this out. if you haven't seen the hbo series "rome", you should check it out too. it's not about engineering or anything, but you'll probably like it.

[Ever666]

I watched the whole first season this weekend.


It's not what i expected but i still enjoyed it quite a bit.

[project.one]

time?

[Ever666]

It's on right now dude.

Channel 44.

[Ever666]

http://www.history.com/exhibits/rome/

These little video clips of the coliseum are really cool.

[mapleleaf4ever]

What's the schedule for this? Sounds like a good Show.

[Gusto]

i've been getting them from torrentspy. there are 13 in all.

[Ever666]

Nice, which ones did you enjoy the most?


I especially liked the one about Carthage.

[Gusto]

i've watched a little more than half. i liked britain most, probably because i was born there. the aztec one was cool too.

[rawb]

GUYS DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH DISCOVERY HD I WATCH

A: IT IS A LOT
I KNOW A LOT ABOUT CANALS AS WELL AS ROMANS NOW

[Ever666]

Yea Britain was cool.

I liked the whole part about Hadrians wall. This show is especially good because it tells a good detailed history and the architecture.

[Gusto]

guys i kind of want to build an aqueduct. i don't trust the city water anymore.

[rawb]

I WANT ONE AS WELL, JUST TO BUILD MY CITY SIZE OVER 7 SO I CAN SPAM ELEPHANTS

[decypher]

Rome, the series is more like desperate housewives for really really old people (about 2100 years). Still good though, full of lots of pagan sex and historical nuggets.

It's great learning about ancient civilizations, the greeks had this one astrological instrument that used ideas incorporated in 18th century clocks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

Also the ancient eastern civilizations especially surrounding the Vedic and sanskrit language have a huge influence too, you may want to look into that.

I haven't seen this engineering empires i don't think; So it's on Tuesdays?

I'm looking to get the Planet Earth HD (final) release when it comes out in a few months. Such a wicked series with the best wildlife shots.

Clay if your into that sorta thing you may be interested in the book Guns, Germs and Steel and the subsequent 3 part documentary they had on Discovery(?).

[Ever666]

I also thought the series Rome was a little more dramatic then i had expected.

Amd i caught part of that guns, germs, and steel series on history channel and really enjoyed it. I found that one really interesting.

There's another one i've caught on history channel a couple times called 'metropolis' which was also really good. The first one i saw was about Alexandria and the second one i saw was about Paris. Not sure how many episodees are in that series.


And engineering an empire is on Mondays at 8pm. I think they also re-air the episode on Sundays though.

[Gusto]

Originally Posted by Ever666

I also thought the series Rome was a little more dramatic then i had expected.

same, but that's what i love about it.

[Ever666]

It was kind of funny actually.


Like that part where they make a raft out of corpses.

[Gusto]

aha i forgot about that. i liked when verenus was taking over the aventine and he went nuts and told them all he was from hades.

[Gusto]

also, the killlings and rapes are sweet.

[Ever666]

Engineering An Empire is on right now on channel 44 if anyone is interested.


This episode is about the Persian empire.

[decypher]

fuuuck only gonna catch the last 15 minutes.

[Ninja_Sage]

See what happens to people when they didn't have internet or the tools of modern society to control the masses, including the entheogenic recreational drugs?

[Ever666]

Originally Posted by decypher

fuuuck only gonna catch the last 15 minutes.

Another good series i've bin watching on history channel that i've really bin enjoying is 'digging up the trenches'. On right now(Started at 9 ch. 44).