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In the footsteps of Alexander the Great

In this award winning adventure Micheal Wood embarks on a 2000 mile journey in the foot steps of Alexander's triumphal march from Greece to India. Travelling with Lebanese traders, Iranian pilgrims and Afghan guerillas, by jeep, train, boat, camel and on foot, he interweaves the momentous events of the past with present day reality and brings us new insights into a man whose myth and acheivements still resonate down the centuries

"We saw things I can scarcely believe. We took shelter for the night with an Afghan warlord who had delivered pizzas in the United States, and were hauled off to jail more than once. It was one of the great experiences of my life" - Michael Wood

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• BBC
• Documentary
• History
• Ancient
• Greece
• Macedonia
• Hellas
• Greeks
• Greek
• Alexander
• the
• Great
• Hellenistic
• Caspian
• Sea
• Persian
• Empire
• Turkmen
• War
• Nuristani
• Afghans
• Tajiks
• Middle
• East
• Taliban
• Persians
• Pashtuns

[Gringoman911]

I respect Afghans because some of them share Greek blood like the nuristani so they are lost cousins.

[gparhs]

Alexander the Great, one of Greece's most glorius men, in all history.

Greetings from Athens, Greece.

[YaBudala]

1:48 he thinks hes a mad cunt drinken the watter but half hes hand is filled with sand n shells ... ahahaahhhahahah funny bloke

[camomilleable11]

Yeah this video was made in Turkmenistan, which is Parthia was connected with Scythia and Saki-Massagets. In Turkmenistan lives a lot of Tajik people (500.000). The Merv (Turkmenistan) located next to Khorezm (Uzbekistan).

[Afgsusan1]

I respect Alexander & Greeks more than any person or people

~Susan of Afghanistan

[RedHead531]

nuristanis and pashtuns share greater genes together than pashtuns with tajiks, this means that nuristanis are just another persian stock

[KarthikSoun]

@Gringoman911 lol..nuristanis dont have the greek gene! they dont even seem to have european heritage, some ppl say they are an unique group and product of isolation. The greek gene is no Afghanistan and they did take buddhism to europe but now its all mixed up.

[henkecelt]

@don1schon check out his conquistadors series if you ain't seen it, also on youtube,

[atopu38]

i like mr.woods presentation. he takes u in journey of history

[lexcalibur1]

thx for the videos !!

[don1schon]

man most of the countries didnt exist at that time as we know them today He just said afghanistan because what it is called now to understand but the land was the same till now no matters what it call at the time of Alexander its the same geographical location

[don1schon]

yes he was