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From Stone Axe to the Roman Empire

The history of globalisation starts with the story of the Stone Age hand axe

Series about the history of globalisation. Today, how it all started with the Stone Age hand axe. It was such a good solution to many everyday problems of survival that it spread around the world as Homo sapiens began the epic migration 90,000 years ago from southern Africa. And then the Romans and Chinese began to globalise the ancient world.

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大象传媒 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project

大象传媒 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project