Mankind: The Story of All of Us (2012) s01e05 Episode Script

Plague

we are strong we build enough opened new frontiers now mankind right chaos on me bring us to the brink extinction no amidst the chaos an unforgiving plan most beast for all the pieces will fall into place and a set of keys on market power for mankind try this is our story the story all about northern China 12:15 a.
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the Mongols are coming fifty thousand warriors the world's greatest cavalry York their leader up gained his car one of the bloodiest war lords in human history 0 his target chung today's Beijing China's capital city cities are key to the store centers of power learning and welcome they need protected Chung do has 18 miles battle forty feet high it's still home to attack half a million people the Grinch ok now a battle for the future of mankind through the city dweller and the gnomon the Genghis Khan sign up a tribal cheap his father was murdered was sent exam if you survive a childhood like changes con you're gonna have a chip on your shoulder you the one approved everybody they were long you will not approve the June orchard doing you gonna wanna prove that you are the best guy block he escapes his cap fights his way to the top nights the mom and begins a campaign of conquest the change the world the key to his success course am domesticated five thousand years earlier and Central Asia forces have expanded mankind's front on among skin cover up to 300 miles using the horse for warfare unlocks a new key for mankind if we go back to the Mongols fighting units the Chinese what we see is the first trip point in the history that will eventually bring us to the tank and that trip with this washes long will start on horseback age three they learn to ride without using ranged or when they encounter humans on fired to the models as humans were a lot like sheep you couldn't scare them could bully them they run taken shoe at four gal it's the first version the Blitzkrieg is be able to Ryan will place do damage and then disappear before anybody even those with him long the Warriors have four horses each begin eat and sleep horse no warm will travel so far in so fast to World War two they would travel faster than the news have their rivals climate change is one of the keys to the human store drives the Mongols to change the world 93 million miles from Earth I the server solar activity I blasts radiation scorched plan it's the beginning of three centuries global warming fanatic changes in the nation world in the premodern world directly affected historical events home Mongolia drought turns past into does am to survive mongol sweep south towards china great power in Asia home to the biggest cities in the world Chinese the great price if you can conquer China you conquer the land of infinite supplies graying of still team china is the richest prize the vocals impossibly tape approaching Chung do Genghis Khan issues ultimatum surrender or does mongol cruelties legend prisoners decapitated towers and human Scholes ok children slaughtered I imagine for someone sitting in a city looking out over the wall and seen the massive long ball Ford is coming your direction you have to immediately question yourself is to why him I still in this city I need to leave or I'm dead game disc on rape so many women that as many as one in two hundred people live today carry his jeans the greatest happiness is together into your bosom your enemies wives daughters the morning 60,000 women it is sending the first suicide being raped by the long the their horses get the Mongols to the city gates no further up to take the city the use Chinese engineers by and forced them to build battering prisoners of war attacking the room said to defend themselves Chung do soldiers must kill their own pimp the gate grapes the city love sleep mongrels overrun charm massacre over a hundred thousand people and torched the city the locals were unbelievably effective military force if they had a target that they wanted to take no one stood in their way and I witness reports the earth was recent human fact in his lifetime Genghis Khan is said to be responsible for the deaths of up to 40 million people as many as eight of you he conquers more land in 25 years then rounded in four hundred four-and-a-half million square miles the largest empires so far in human history the key to its success communication six hundred years before the Pony Express mongols can send messages by horseback across an area twice the size and stones every 30 miles relay with four hundred horse government messengers carrying an official medallion can claim food and fresh mouth the world's first past as a result think it's called its conquest for the first time in history one can safely travel from one end of the world to the other end the on paper printed gun heard from East to west all keys to the future Mankin but at the same time killers on the loose could wipe out my half Europe's population mankind battles and during enemy disease his seat call the trading post midway between europe in age Genghis Khan has been dead for more than a century for his empire continues along its trade routes a deadly trap I'm by bacteria in for three and a half billion years virtually every corner of the earth has been covered by these microorganisms our own bodies contain more bacterial cells in human cells moster harmless many essential but these have the power to kill is see cool a pandemic begins one of the first recorded victims cut look married Christian do his wife spoke rims north imagine your husband comes back from trading and he has his big blue blisters if you still is it from the air from the water he drank is it some four and one side and what's going on Yucaipa the computers bacteria rushed through cut marks bloodstream the out with his immune system and spread latins distorting swellings lamp up skin robson giant Haas build stores ruble Bluebonnet play your passed on by an almost invisible carrier the flea its staple diet this block when it bites farm splayed bacteria and blood sugar cut looks wife doesn't know she too has been bitten in within days both what we do: in 1337 four people died in the SE cool when 0 two years later there are 100 deaths of but this is just the beginning ballistic spread these infections don't stop improve transportation makes this is almost impossible to control the fleas the carry the plague which left from one of our closest companions the black ragged native to Asia they spread to Europe with the Romans bugged from a pair of rats 2000 new offspring year and every rap can carry a plague infected clean block grants and first the cargo that travels along the Mongol tribes spreading out from his seat call the plague sweeps east to China and west towards you up comp on the Black Sea but thriving poured at the crossroads a east and west controlled by Italian merchants by one man is credited with speeding the plague into europe the scent Genghis Khan janie back he murdered his own brother to seize power now he wants to expand the Mongol Empire West cough stains work he has a terrible new web the plate kills his soldiers faster they can be replaced home back back because Jenny bag to you world sure and is dead man become im biological warfare wasn't entirely in the sixth century BC both the syrians in the Greeks used poison wild what a calf the Mongols took it another stage they launched visit like a chemical bomb biological weapons or soda been outlawed in 165 countries including russians in the United States of but it is thought more than enough remaining dwight about mankind stroke no one has ever use biological weapons luncheon back on Chronicle right what seemed like mountains a dead were thrown into the city rotting corpses tainted the air stench was cool well the there can be no weapon not is asked I ruffled iced what his unleashed with biological you cannot see jobs you cannot see dizzy and nothing you can do can make you I'm used to it the inhabitants of cough try to outrun the play and flee to Europe they have no idea they're bringing disease with way on route to the world's most densely populated cont Sienna Italy 13:48 a family locks itself and hoping to lock disease up the father writes in a camp one of the only surviving records as the invasion of Europe use it was a cruel and horrible thing I don't know where to begin to tell if it's brutal and pitiless ways the battle for the survival of mankind has begun ok mankind faces a battle against extinction you CNN Italy six months after the plague invades your 'em thousands home and you loaded tour local businessmen the town chronicled barricades his family inside their home the killer outside must not come in annual uses fire and smoke to ward off play no one suspects it's kari byron us you don't know what the real causes could be the air be the water and so you you have the sensation around you have something building up but you don't know what it is the plague takes 10 years to cross a shim moving slowly from village to village you're a is the perfect cream hundreds of cities eighty million people living close quarters the cities have all the conditions to sustain play the Phil squalor the rolled that would just considered heart attack from life pointed nobody considered that these roads and employees could potentially be a problem that had this massive number people all hack together in the small dwellings in with the exact sort of situation you wouldn't want if you were trying to cause a plague epidemic up them the plague has enter daniel is home all infecting his wife nickel Lucia if you've ever seen good morning play its very gross a huge purple growth takes place which creates psychological trauma havoc an incredible theater them annual tries anything everything bombing regularly especially at the first sign of any illness trick glass with your own urine twice a day apply an appointment to the pupil made up honey egg yolks and Scorpion well to draw I'll the boys avoid sex baths finely plague doctor his hood filled with herbs protection Street drain the disease out ok home positions will try any desperate measure that could work bloodletting was tried features work used not seem to work that the smartest thing doctor do stay away from the nation's because inadvertently we were taking the bacteria from one patient to the next well 0 all the while plague bacteria muted finding new ways to reproduce and spread they no longer need to be carried by fleas there I the ev-one playing is fundamentally different because it now can be transmitted from human being to you and me but kill rate was seventy five percent up now nearly 100 my and six months 31,000 people sixty percent of CN work our up more than 20 every three persons from new senior gone families dessin clans decimated everybody desk by acknowledge it or buried my children with my home house there was no one who wept for any death for all waited death so many died that all believed was the and world good fear and panic sets and you ask yourself what's causing this you know did I do something wrong don't forget to put church and eat symptom seems like the devil is doing it the overwhelming theory wasn't benching top somehow this was the anger of God causing this disease now disaster tests mankind's faith Avenue friends home to Pope Clement the six one of the most powerful man in the world controlling fast on news an enormous well when play kids other the people expected the pope to calm to their salvation to go and intercede to God to stop the plaque climate the sixth can't stop work it devastates Avenue killing thirteen hundred people in a single day Pope Clement buys a field and berries 11,000 people but it is not enough tries a radical solution consecrated the river Rhone that's a floating summit as bodies floated down Rome River people realized the pope could for either God was a list or worse here in los turned to rage are the mob wants someone to line all over you the hunt his own Street 1349 playing rages across Europe mankind said it weakens most irrational on searching for someone to blame mom marlin Strasburg germ playing hasn't hit here yep rumors spread faster than the disease itself the diabolique clock they say the Jews poised drink this was the Middle Ages to switch before the Scientific Revolution the scientific method you had a world that was right superstition anger fusion and unfortunately that of that bubbled of to prejudice used ever since the 6th century BC their homelands comp Jewish people have created thriving communities around the plant up today 26 countries have Jewish populations over 10 found when fear grips mankind minorities are in easy talk the authorities in Strasbourg try to protect posting guards and their streets on but isolation group's content do the mob takes the law into its own shield February 14 the saint valentine's Day mass Jews have straws given choice for forgot one thousand Jews burned alive but the massacres there's nothing two saves five months later the plague claiming another 16,000 all over europe great cities like deserted an eyewitness reports shops were shot people where a deep silence in almost everyplace consider what we were and what we've become there was a crowded bus now we're alone mankind rendered powerless by tiny bacteria across Asia and Europe the plague kills over 50 million people in 15 years ok but isolation can protect up the Atlantic Ocean has stopped the play reaching the Americans ok the key to mankind's future my hands visionary leaders two hundred years after Genghis Khan a young Inc award comparisons about hatcher cootie courageous dynamic inspired vision the Sun God drives into a mighty battle that will create the Empire view prosecuting but in more recent them so the name means world shaker he gave himself a name you know I am the conquer the world the Americans are home to 90 million people living in total isolation from the rest of mankind home in this new world there are no horse they've been hunted to extinction no iron tools know we'll view but the key to life in the UN's high-altitude agricultural this is a mountainous people a mountain a society and so if you wanna have available for work you have to build terraces along the mountain slopes and when you go through the andes today you see the remains have terraces everywhere thousands of feet above sea level they cultivate crops totally unknown to the rest of the world potato tomatoes court sixty years later the Spanish will bring these superfoods back to Europe a key moment in shaping the guy mankind but the riches of their land make the incurs a target keep their territory be fan catch a cootie will have to fight against a fierce and the by dead story of mankind should by man it does turn catcher Kutum leader the incomes is enemy charm bloodthirsty warriors use the bones have their enemies as trophies their goal crush jacuzzi capture the inca cap couscous leading the chance to send about use to build powerful Ruth us and dead life initiated the chance to reign of terror death speaks to his priest in the Andes the ancestors are very much present in people's lives and so important people are mama 5 long before the egyptians the people of South America preserve their dead children adults whole families good the oldest monies and survived for seven thousand years with use Google completing chunk warriors feel invincible they outnumber the UN take no prisoners crude as a plan the goal was to try to capture them on the high body copyright if you could topple will scoville ca then victory was yours of he believes in something more powerful school inti the Sun God the most important God income college night before the bout int comes to him in a dream promises him a glorious picked up patch putting seasons the idea portraying himself as the Libyan Sun inti himself embodied by the power sign catcher cooties father has flown his brother slide but he chooses to stay leave the inconsistent about you go about proving yourself to your man by setting the example and saying you know what I might die today but that's okay because I was born to do this and I guarantee it every true leader that ever went into combat has felt that way Pacha croutons charm stoking run holds his men back maintains disappear tell the unleash fall stock every time I went into combat it had everything to do with the wheel to win Co that's what wins battle such a cutie makes his move Inc alleging recalls his brain the young prince threw himself at the end he was so agile fast terrified discover bill his body them chung thanks the incurs victory over the truckers was legendary they never stop talking about it they never stop celebrating it patch agree with kick-start the biggest Empire ever seen america's most modern-day Chile Bolivia and Peru United under Inc rule to link their territory network troops stretching 25,000 miles over some of the steepest to rain on the end of the trail Modupe each Padukone the spouse club unknown to the rest man come but the isolation the Americans is coming to an end Europe survives play rebuild launch new hair conquest an exploration gotta leave to the disco but the new world no
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