| Alt Name: | Eurasia: The Conquest of the East Eurasian Empires |
| Native Name: | |
| Genre: | Documentary |
| Director: | [1] |
| Narrated: | Maryse Lefebvre Pierre Sciama Shinichi Taketa |
| Composer: | Marc Hillmann Bernard Becker Takefumi Haketa |
| Country: | France Japan |
| Language: | French Japanese |
| Num Series: | 1 |
| Num Episodes: | 8 |
| List Episodes: |
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| Producer: | NHK Point du Jour |
| Runtime: | 48 minutes |
| Channel: | NHK France 5 |
Eurasia: The Conquest of the East (French: Eurasia : À la conquête de l'Orient; Japanese: 文明の道|Bunmei no Michi|Road of Civilisation), 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).[2] It started on 20 April 2003, with the final episode broadcast on 14 December 2003.[3] [4] The series has been dubbed into English and Spanish.
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.[5]
| Title | French title | Japanese title | Directed by | Original air date | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alexander the Great | French: Alexandre le Grand | Japanese: アレクサンドロス大王 ペルシャ帝国への挑戦 | Patrick Cabouat, Atsushi Ogaki, Atsushi Murayama, Satoru Nagai, Masakazu Taniguchi | ||
| 2 | The Forgotten Alexandria | French: L'Alexandrie oubliée | Japanese: アレクサンドロスの遺産 最果てのギリシャ都市 | Patrick Cabouat, Noriaki Hashimoto, Atsushi Murayama | ||
| 3 | Ghandhara: The Renaissance of Buddhism | French: Gandhara, l'envol du bouddhisme | Japanese: ガンダーラ・仏教飛翔の地 | Patrick Cabouat, Kazuko Oka | ||
| 4 | The Romans in China | French: Des Romains au cœur de la Chine | Japanese: 地中海帝国ローマ・東方への夢 | Patrick Cabouat, Atsushi Ogaki | ||
| 5 | The Caravaneers of the Silk Road | French: Les Maîtres des caravanes | Japanese: シルクロードの謎 隊商の民ソグド | Patrick Cabouat, Noriaki Hashimoto | ||
| 6 | Baghdad in the Year 1000 | French: Bagdad, an 1000 | Japanese: バグダッド 大いなる知恵の都 | Patrick Cabouat, Kaoru Kawada, Atsushi Murayama | ||
| 7 | Jerusalem 1227: The Excommunicated Peace | French: Jérusalem 1227 : la paix excommuniée | Japanese: エルサレム 和平･若き皇帝の決断 | Patrick Cabouat, Kazuko Oka | ||
| 8 | The Mongol Conqueror: Kublai Khan's Dream | French: Le Rêve mongol | Japanese: クビライの夢 ユーラシア帝国の完成 | Patrick Cabouat, Masakazu Taniguchi |
The series has been released on DVD by TF1 vidéo in 2004.[6] A new edition titled French: Eurasia : Orient et Occident, 2500 ans d'histoire et de conquêtes, has been released in 2006.[7] The Japanese DVD box has been released in 2004, by NHK software.[8]
The series has been adapted into two comic books and a book series consisting of five volumes, published between 2003 and 2004 by .[9]