← The Birth of Europe · Season 1

Colliding Continents and the Age of Bronze

S1 · E2 · 13 Oct 1991

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A look at how the Alps were formed and how the discovery of bronze began the first arms race in northern Europe. But in the south, the first great European civilisation grew up in peaceful isolation on Crete, born from the wealth of agriculture and trade. Did a volcano destroy it?