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The Walls of Benin were built by the people of the Kingdom of Benin, and they were four times longer than the Great Wall of China and Europeans were amazed.
Whole mediterranean. >> herod is not alone in his ambitions. a powerful rival looms in one of the most ancient kingdoms on the planet. >> egypt, at this time, is no longer a superpower. it's far from its former glory. previous rulers, incompetent rulers, civil wars had shrunk the kingdom down to a rump of itself. >> now, it's almost a rome client state. it's lost its power. >> but there's one person who doesn't like it that way. cleopatra wants to see egypt rise, once again. z >> when you look at roman descriptions of cleopatra,
>> the british had a design. the zionist had a design. they could have had the greatest leader in the world, couldn't have stopped this machine. >> in jerusalem, david ben-gurion also expects the surrounding arab nations to come to the palestinian arabs' defense. >> it was clear the moment the united nations voted for partition that israel had to fight for its existence. it was a diplomatic victory, but it had to be followed by a military victory. >> almost instantly, all the major arab republics and kingdoms, all of them planned to invade in order to crush the jewish state in its cradle as it...
Region to this day. >> and one wonders what would the arab world be today were it not for what imperialism did to snuff out the national ambitions of people and to impose regimes on them, and to spoil their wealth and exploit them. imperialism commited a sin that is still taking a toll today. >> the british played everybody to their advantage. they told the you jews that you wanted a home in palestine, here is your land, and they told the arabs that you want to be independent and have kingdoms, we are with you, and let's do that, and in the end, the british were working for the british. >> to ...
Assertions are what made jerusalem what it is. >> for centuries, people who lived in and around jerusalem accepted that as a truth. so when we're reading the biblical stories, yes, we are reading the history of jerusalem. >> and the story of the holy city begins around 1,000 b.c. in the land of canaan. >> in 1,000 b.c., the major kingdoms were the egyptian kingdom to the south and the hittites to the north. this land of canaan in between, that was just a battlefield that the big boys came to duke it out on. >> canaan is the land that the israelites believe that god gave to them as the land tha...