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The first program explores Julius Caesar's reasons for attacking the Celts in 58BC, revealing his motives had more to do with acquiring wealth than protecting the Empire
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Terry Jones investigates claims that early Germans, Dacians and Goths were nothing but primitive brutes.
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In Greece and Iran, Jones argues that the ancient Greeks and Persians were far from the Roman view of being effeminate and addicted to luxury.
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Around 400 AD, two Barbarian babies were born. One would grow up to become the most feared of all - Attila the Hun. The other, Geiseric, led the Vandals whom history has cast as destroyers. Jones finds out that Roman civilization wasn't destroyed by the invasion of these tribes, but by the loss of the North African tax base. He sees the common view of Rome and "Barbarians" as a result of the Roman Catholic Church popularizing the Roman version of the truth.
