by Betsy Boyd
synopsis
Part of the CNN Millennium 10-hour documentary, which explores global events of the past 1000 years, CNN Millennium, Part 3: Century of the Stirrup - The Thirteenth Century outlines pivotal points between 1200 and 1300. The program follows Ghengis Khan and his Mongol warriors as they mapped their course west. Viewers learn how the Inquisition empowered church government, how the Magna Carta came to be passed, and which important modern inventions Roger Bacon psychically foretold. Actor Ben Kingsley narrates.
characteristics
- Monarch
- Millennium
- Inquisition
- Mongolian [nationality]
- Scotland
- Theology
- Theologian
- Human-rights
- Glasses
- Century
- Bridge [structure]
- Civil-war
- Crusade
- Friar
- Empire
