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Title: Engineering an empire with Peter "Robocop" Weller? Heck Yah!
Review: Engineering an Empire is a snappy and slick series from the History Channel that discusses a multitude of past cultural contributions to the world from a variety of civilizations. In volume 1, The Aztecs episode in particular, it held my 7th grade students' interests (as well as adults' interests)as we experience the violence, beauty, awe, and mystery of a civilization's amazing creations for survival from a time long past. Peter Weller's acting chops fill in quite nicely as a dynamic host with an impressive historical educational resume to boot. It's a quick 45 minutes that manages to keep the pace high and trick the students into learning something along the way.
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