Empire Games

Cyrus the great, Darius I, Xerses not even discussed. Well Darius III and Xerses were mentioned in passing. But the Persian empire was otherwise ignored completely. I'm speechless...

At this point, it goes without mentioning how this series has failed to be historically accurate. Of the first season, I only managed to watch the first 20 minutes of the sixth episode, and that was really all it took for me to hate this series. I can recall three issues I have with this specific episode. 1. The whole "spectacle" of sacrifice was absolutely sensationalized and completely contradicted everything the historians were revealing. 2. The narrator mispronounced/hispanicized every Nahuatl word that came up in his script, which is really more revealing of the script writer's lack of knowledge on how the Mesoamerican tongue was spoken, or they just failed to communicate with the narrator. 3. A clip of an Incan Sapa Inka on a litter was shown when the power of Aztec emperors was being discussed. I'm 100% positive there are many more errors that I'm missing in this review about this episode. If anyone is looking to be even minimally educated about the empire being reported on, I highly recommend for you to stay away from this monstrosity of a documentary.

I just watched the Aztecs episode as I am 1/2 Zapotec. The narrator was horrible. He murdered the names and words of so many things. Clearly he did not do his homework. Just sad.

There are many errors, inaccuracies, and sensationalism. The chapter on the Aztecs (which ruled in North America not in Central America) is the worst, telling more the story of Spanish invasion and depicting Mayan -no Aztec- ruins

I teach World History so I am always looking to watch documentaries over the content that I teach. Within 3 minutes of episode 1, the first inaccuracy is stated. Talks about how Julius Caesar ordered games in the Colosseum yo celebrate him returning to Rome. Ummmmm......It's construction began 100 years after he was killed. I stopped it right there. Not interested if they can't even get something that is so elementary.