Ancient Warriors
Ancient Warriors is a documentary series from the Discovery Channel, looking at the warrior groups and armies that shaped history. The series consists of twenty episodes, each of which looks at a major fighting people or force and charts the reasons for their rise to dominance and subsequent fall. The series explores the motivations of ancient soldiers, as well as how they lived, fought, trained, died, and changed the world. It also uses battle re-enactments and computer graphics to demonstrate military strategy. The warriors covered in the series include: the Assyrians, Celts, Normans, Legions of Rome, Macedonians, Soldiers of the Pharaoh, Spartans, Janissaries, Huns, Knights Templar, Vikings, Highlanders, Irish Warriors, Maurya Warriors of the Elephant, Aztecs, Samurai, Shaolin Monks, Hawaiians, Ninja, and Sioux.
| Episode 16 - The Samurai |
In 1160 Japan's two greatest clans fought a war of annihilation. The way of the Samurai was a path of honour or death, a strict code of unswerving loyalty.
| Related Links |
| Samurai - wikipedia Samurai, usually referred to in Japanese as bushi or buke, were the military nobility of medieval and early-modern Japan. |
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