Trade, Cities and the Land-Locked Sea. The third in this seven part series about the development of European civilisation shows how the lack of fertile land in Greece led traders and settlers to colonise the Mediterranean shores, how the silver mines of Athens saved western civilisation from the Persians, and how the Romans broke through the barrier of the Alps to conquer Gaul.
Executive producer Michael Andrews STEREO
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