What was the world really like 5,000 to 3,000 years ago, when Odysseus supposedly sailed back from Troy?

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Produced by Richard Marais

(0:00) The Fertile Crescent and Egypt

(3:30) Europe and 'Ancient Greece'

(7:29) China

(9:13) The Indus

(12:38) Southern Africa: Earth's first iron smelters

(14:16) South America and the 'quipu' system

(17:52) Russia and the Siberian frontier

(20:21) Australia

(22:39) Pasifika

(25:19) Southeast Asia and its "Peaceful Bronze Age"

(27:19) North America: hunter-gatherer metropolis