Eurasia: The Conquest of the East (; ), also known as Eurasian Empires or simply Eurasia, is a documentary TV series about the Eurasian civilisations, which ran in eight episodes on NHK (2003) and France 5 (2004). It started on 20 April 2003, with the final episode broadcast on 14 December 2003. The series has been dubbed into English and Spanish.
Synopsis New discoveries and studies have shown that Central Asia, a region located in the centre of Eurasia, played a significant role as a "cradle of civilisation". The civilisations brought to the vast Eurasian continent by conquest and trade continued to collide and fuse, affecting each other and developing new civilisations. Computer-generated imagery is used to recreate the historical scenes of Ai-Khanoum, Babylon, Baghdad, Persepolis, Rome, etc., representing the rise and fall of a dynamic civilisation that took place over 2000 years.
Episodes # Title French title Japanese title Directed by Original air date 1 Alexander the Great Patrick Cabouat, Atsushi Ogaki, Atsushi Murayama, Satoru Nagai, Masakazu Taniguchi 2 The Forgotten Alexandria Patrick Cabouat, Noriaki Hashimoto, Atsushi Murayama 3 Ghandhara: The Renaissance of Buddhism Patrick Cabouat, Kazuko Oka 4 The Romans in China Patrick Cabouat, Atsushi Ogaki 5 The Caravaneers of the Silk Road Patrick Cabouat, Noriaki Hashimoto 6 Baghdad in the Year 1000 Patrick Cabouat, Kaoru Kawada, Atsushi Murayama 7 Jerusalem 1227: The Excommunicated Peace Patrick Cabouat, Kazuko Oka 8 The Mongol Conqueror: Kublai Khan's Dream Patrick Cabouat, Masakazu Taniguchi
DVD The series has been released on DVD by TF1 vidéo in 2004. A new edition titled , has been released in 2006. The Japanese DVD box has been released in 2004, by NHK software.
Adaptation The series has been adapted into two comic books and a book series consisting of five volumes, published between 2003 and 2004 by .
Comic books ('Alexander: Dream of the World Empire') ('Kublai: Completion of the World Empire')
Book series ('Era of Alexander the Great') ('Hellenism and Buddhism') ('The Silk Road on Land and Sea') ('Islam and the Crusades') ('Mongol Empire')
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