The second part looks at how mankind continued to grow together. Huge empires began to emerge on almost all continents – like that of the Persians, the Romans and the Chinese, where many peoples united and developed their own culture under one roof. What divided people and what always kept them together?
WRITER: Dorothea Nölle DIRECTOR: Christian Twente CAMERA: Fabian Spuck EDITOR: Claudia Spoden SOUND: Thomas Diesel MUSIC: Paul Rabiger NARRATOR: Petra Konradi, Philipp Schepmann COMMISSIONING EDITOR: Christian Deick (ZDF), Friederike Haedecke (ZDF), Winfried Laasch (ZDF), Marion Böhm (ZDF)