Ages of Gold.

Format:

Video

Series:

Academic Video Online

Story of India

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chola (Indic people)--Antiquities.

Chola (Indic people).

India--Antiquities.

India.

India--Civilization.

India--History--324 B.C.-1000 A.D.

Genre:

Documentary

Physical Description:

1 online resource (55 minutes)

Place of Publication:

Arlington, VA : Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), 2008.

Language Note:

In English.

Original language in English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

The fourth episode in the series The Story of India is the story of India in the Middle Ages. At the time of the fall of the Roman Empire in the West and the European Dark Ages, India had a series of great flowerings of culture, both in the north and the south. In this episode Michael Wood shows us some of the amazing achievements of medieval India: In astronomy they discovered the heliocentric universe, zero and the circumference of the earth. They mastered the world's first large scale wrought iron technology""the Delhi iron pillar, and their courtly culture was the setting the world's first sex manual, the Kama Sutra. Meanwhile in the south the rising power of the Cholan empire spread Indian arms and culture to the Maldives, Sri Lanka, the Andamans, and to Java and the Malay peninsula, where the Tamil diaspora is still powerful today. The story ends in Multan in Pakistan in the early eleventh century with a shadow on the horizon""the first invasions by Turks and Afghans bearing the Muslim faith that will change the story of India and turn the subcontinent into the biggest Muslim civilization in the world.

Participant:

Produced by Leo Eaton; directed by Jeremy Jeffs.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed March 29, 2016).

OCLC:

689524402

Publisher Number:

ASP1003462036/marc