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>> and he chooses marian who is young, beautiful, cultured, generally loved by everybody. >> herod's relationship with marian, they would have made really good reality television. on the one hand, herod deeply loved her, and expressed his love in grandiose gestures. on the other hand, she constantly berated him about his status and he always felt a sense of inferiority around her. >> the very jerusalem story because it contains both love and hate, as jerusalem as auls always does. you have this young, ruthless, self-made king. you have this princess of the grandest, royalest family. it's like ...

Pasha never sees jerusalem again. >> he was eventually removed to the russian front and eventually became a political refugee. >> and djemal pasha was ultimately killed by an armenian because he had a hand in the armenian genocide. >> with command of the holy city now directly in their hands, the germans turn their attention to destroying the british. >> the germans are going to make sure that for every inch of ground the british advance, they are going to bleed. and as the british advance towards jerusalem, the desert theater becomes a brutal, brutal place for battle. the combat is fierce. it...

Powerful generals controlling rome. mark antony meets and -- and falls in love with cleopatra, and establishes his base of operations in alexandria in egypt. >> he is a bit of what we today call a player. he was master of horse, cavalry commander for julius caesar. >> mark antony and herod the great, they're old war buddies. and herod the great actually saved mark antony's skin on one occasion. so, they owe each other quite a bit. >> mark antony and herod had had a very intimate relationship that, of course, cleopatra knew of and was very, very jealous. >> and cleopatra wants what herod the gr...

But what's left of it are the stones of the south, eastern, and western walls, which you can see today. >> so, all that herod had worked for. the things that he wanted most -- this physical legacy -- vanished. anytime jerusalem has someone come along who wants everything to himself, for some reason, jerusalem says that's not the way the city of god is going to be. and that's because, as history has shown us, the times when jerusalem is at peace is when this city is shared by its people. >> the jews emerge differently

Exactly what they've been doing on the western front against the germans, and they're fiascos both times. >> it cost a lot of british soldiers' lives, in the thousands. it was a very humiliating defeat for them, so they retreated. >> so djemal pasha, sitting in jerusalem, he sort of becomes the hero, and this is one of the really kind of outstanding ottoman victories, these two battles of gaza. >> after the british are beaten back, the arab revolt plans an assault of its own. >> for the arab revolt, the really important city was damascus. >> prince faisal knew the importance of damascus, wante...