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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:11,012 [ Man Narrating ] Font Knox, Kentucky. 2 00:00:12,722 --> 00:00:16,267 Inside one of the planet's most heavily guarded fortresses... 3 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:21,439 behind a door that weighs 44, 000 pounds... 4 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:26,069 lies the most famous stash of metal in the world. 5 00:00:29,114 --> 00:00:34,285 Big history reveals the mysterious power of gold. 6 00:00:37,122 --> 00:00:39,708 We think of history as a timeline... 7 00:00:39,791 --> 00:00:44,254 a series of events stretching a few thousand years into the past. 8 00:00:44,337 --> 00:00:46,881 It's time to think bigger. 9 00:00:46,965 --> 00:00:51,344 Instead of a line, imagine a web of infinite connections... 10 00:00:51,428 --> 00:00:53,972 interacting over billions of years... 11 00:00:54,055 --> 00:00:57,726 linked together to create everything we've ever known- 12 00:00:57,809 --> 00:01:00,478 our universe, our planet... 13 00:01:00,562 --> 00:01:02,397 and us. 14 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:06,526 When we consider our most epic moments through the lens of science... 15 00:01:06,609 --> 00:01:08,903 we unleash a revolutionary new idea. 16 00:01:09,988 --> 00:01:14,075 The movement of atoms steer the movements of men... 17 00:01:14,159 --> 00:01:16,077 civilizations, galaxies. 18 00:01:16,161 --> 00:01:20,248 History as we know it is about to get big. 19 00:01:25,003 --> 00:01:26,588 [ Narrator] Fort Knox. 20 00:01:27,756 --> 00:01:33,762 Rumored to contain gold worth almost a quarter of a trillion dollars. 21 00:01:35,096 --> 00:01:38,183 But why is this metal worth anything at all? 22 00:01:39,851 --> 00:01:43,188 [ Man ] The value associated with gold is entirely imaginary. 23 00:01:45,315 --> 00:01:48,902 But people were motivated by that belief... 24 00:01:48,985 --> 00:01:50,820 and that belief had a huge impact. 25 00:01:56,075 --> 00:01:59,996 [ Narrator] The gold in Fort Knox comes from mines all over the world. 26 00:02:01,247 --> 00:02:03,249 North and South America. 27 00:02:04,209 --> 00:02:05,794 Africa. 28 00:02:05,877 --> 00:02:07,629 Australia. 29 00:02:08,588 --> 00:02:12,509 Traditional history tells us that wherever gold is discovered... 30 00:02:12,592 --> 00:02:15,804 men always rush to dig it up. 31 00:02:15,887 --> 00:02:18,681 But big history tells us why. 32 00:02:31,528 --> 00:02:34,823 [ Narrator] James Marshall has failed at ranching and farming. 33 00:02:35,907 --> 00:02:38,993 He now hopes to make his fortune running a sawmill. 34 00:02:42,747 --> 00:02:46,125 One morning, Marshall sees something in the water. 35 00:02:54,592 --> 00:02:56,219 [ Christian ] Gold is kind of magical. 36 00:02:56,302 --> 00:02:57,679 It glistens. 37 00:02:59,931 --> 00:03:02,684 [ Narrator] But what's the secret to gold's shine? 38 00:03:06,104 --> 00:03:08,106 Big history zooms in... 39 00:03:14,487 --> 00:03:16,614 to a single atom of gold. 40 00:03:20,577 --> 00:03:23,955 When light hits the electrons orbiting the nucleus... 41 00:03:24,038 --> 00:03:26,958 the electrons fly around and form clouds... 42 00:03:28,001 --> 00:03:30,879 causing the light to bounce back... 43 00:03:30,962 --> 00:03:36,301 into the eyes of James Marshall and everyone else who sees gold. 44 00:03:39,220 --> 00:03:42,473 The science behind gold has a big impact. 45 00:03:44,309 --> 00:03:49,147 Marshall and his partner, John Sutter, try to keep the discovery a secret... 46 00:03:50,148 --> 00:03:52,025 but word gets out. 47 00:03:53,067 --> 00:03:55,904 Traditional history tells us that forty-niners... 48 00:03:55,987 --> 00:04:00,783 come from as far away as Mexico, Ireland, Peru, Russia and Australia... 49 00:04:00,867 --> 00:04:03,244 to strike it rich in California. 50 00:04:05,038 --> 00:04:08,249 But big history gives us something different. 51 00:04:10,418 --> 00:04:12,921 Big history likes to consider a whole range of theories... 52 00:04:13,004 --> 00:04:17,091 about our attraction to things that glitter with bling, if you like. 53 00:04:17,175 --> 00:04:20,970 What's the origin of this attraction to glittering things? 54 00:04:21,054 --> 00:04:25,558 [ Narrator] Could gold's shine be connected to our survival as a species? 55 00:04:26,684 --> 00:04:31,814 To find out, big history links back almost 200,000 years. 56 00:04:38,738 --> 00:04:42,367 These hunters are some of the earliest modern humans. 57 00:04:43,534 --> 00:04:47,705 As they venture into new territory, their thirst deepens. 58 00:04:51,209 --> 00:04:56,172 In this unforgiving landscape, they know one thing to look for. 59 00:04:56,839 --> 00:04:59,968 The sparkle of sunlight on a stream. 60 00:05:01,886 --> 00:05:07,725 For early humans, the glimmer means water, purity and survival. 61 00:05:10,019 --> 00:05:13,398 That prehistoric connection is one we still make today. 62 00:05:18,069 --> 00:05:20,822 [ Narrator] Humans are hardwired to seek out shine. 63 00:05:22,323 --> 00:05:25,326 We want the chrome of cars... 64 00:05:25,410 --> 00:05:26,911 the sparkle of jewelry. 65 00:05:28,413 --> 00:05:31,332 Even our credit cards are sometimes sprinkled with gold... 66 00:05:31,416 --> 00:05:35,712 just to give them that extra shine our brains are programmed to love. 67 00:05:38,047 --> 00:05:41,009 [ Benjamin ] Big history is constantly connecting events from the past... 68 00:05:41,092 --> 00:05:42,677 through to the present. 69 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:46,180 So can we trace in our collective cultural D.N.A... 70 00:05:46,264 --> 00:05:48,264 our contemporary attraction to glittering things... 71 00:05:49,100 --> 00:05:51,561 back to this ancient survival mechanism? 72 00:05:51,644 --> 00:05:53,104 Perhaps we can. 73 00:06:00,570 --> 00:06:03,573 [ Narrator] In the era of ancient civilizations... 74 00:06:03,656 --> 00:06:07,785 gold is seen throughout the world as the king of metals... 75 00:06:08,619 --> 00:06:10,621 and the metal of kings. 76 00:06:12,165 --> 00:06:14,625 It shines like the sun... 77 00:06:14,709 --> 00:06:19,297 and unlike other metals, it never rusts or tarnishes. 78 00:06:20,131 --> 00:06:25,720 Gold seems eternal, like the gods and those who rule in their name. 79 00:06:27,972 --> 00:06:30,292 If you're looking for something to advertise your status... 80 00:06:30,308 --> 00:06:33,936 as an early king or an early emperor, gold is the way to go. 81 00:06:38,191 --> 00:06:42,070 [ Narrator] There's another reason for the power this metal has over us. 82 00:06:42,987 --> 00:06:45,406 [ Christian ] it's quite rare. 83 00:06:45,490 --> 00:06:48,701 If gold were everywhere-you know, if it was like pebbles on the beach- 84 00:06:48,785 --> 00:06:51,287 we certainly wouldn't value it. 85 00:06:53,498 --> 00:06:56,042 [ Narrator] Then, over 2,500 years ago... 86 00:06:56,125 --> 00:06:58,086 on one side of the planet... 87 00:06:58,169 --> 00:07:01,130 a new idea about gold emerges. 88 00:07:02,340 --> 00:07:04,383 [Chattering ] 89 00:07:04,467 --> 00:07:06,427 The Mediterranean. 90 00:07:06,511 --> 00:07:11,015 As trade routes expand, gold becomes money. 91 00:07:12,767 --> 00:07:16,979 [Christian ] Gold seems to have value, so it makes exchanges much easier. 92 00:07:17,063 --> 00:07:19,774 That makes it a natural form of money. 93 00:07:21,234 --> 00:07:24,654 [ Narrator] But why turn to gold instead of other metals? 94 00:07:26,697 --> 00:07:30,326 People of the ancient world only know of seven metals. 95 00:07:31,577 --> 00:07:36,457 Gold, copper, lead, tin, silver, mercury and iron. 96 00:07:36,541 --> 00:07:40,253 Iron is too hard. Lead is too soft. 97 00:07:40,336 --> 00:07:43,673 Tin is weak, and mercury is a liquid. 98 00:07:44,507 --> 00:07:48,302 Copper and silver are used for coins, but they tarnish. 99 00:07:49,595 --> 00:07:53,266 To the ancients, nothing matches gold. 100 00:07:59,272 --> 00:08:01,023 In Europe and Asia... 101 00:08:01,107 --> 00:08:04,360 gold coins become symbols of the nations that mint them. 102 00:08:07,321 --> 00:08:11,951 Gold coins let ordinary people hold the metal of the gods. 103 00:08:13,578 --> 00:08:16,372 I think it's this combination of the glittering attraction of gold... 104 00:08:16,455 --> 00:08:20,084 and the fact that when you link that to the power of a king's image on one side... 105 00:08:20,168 --> 00:08:24,422 and the power of a god on the other, you've got, like, a triple whammy there. 106 00:08:27,466 --> 00:08:31,929 [ Narrator] The power of money combined with the scarcity of gold... 107 00:08:32,013 --> 00:08:34,932 will lead to blood and conquest... 108 00:08:36,100 --> 00:08:38,895 despite one mysterious fact. 109 00:08:39,896 --> 00:08:41,898 Gold may seem rare... 110 00:08:42,899 --> 00:08:45,359 but Earth holds a secret supply. 111 00:08:46,611 --> 00:08:48,613 There's not only enough for everyone... 112 00:08:50,615 --> 00:08:52,450 there's enough to drown the planet. 113 00:09:02,126 --> 00:09:06,214 [ Narrator] Big history uses science to change the way we see history. 114 00:09:07,298 --> 00:09:09,800 It reveals why gold shines... 115 00:09:14,138 --> 00:09:17,141 why the ancient world valued it... 116 00:09:20,978 --> 00:09:24,482 and what connects all the gold rushes across the planet. 117 00:09:29,946 --> 00:09:31,948 Which leads to a bigger mystery. 118 00:09:33,157 --> 00:09:38,371 Why is this rare treasure found in some places but not others? 119 00:09:40,581 --> 00:09:43,084 [ Benjamin ] Big history shows us that without understanding... 120 00:09:43,167 --> 00:09:45,753 the origins of this extraordinary metal... 121 00:09:45,836 --> 00:09:48,130 none of the uses of gold would have been possible. 122 00:09:48,214 --> 00:09:50,132 None of human history would have made sense... 123 00:09:50,216 --> 00:09:53,094 unless we embed it in this much larger context... 124 00:09:53,177 --> 00:09:56,722 of the planet, the solar system, our galaxy- 125 00:09:57,556 --> 00:09:59,558 indeed, the entire cosmos. 126 00:10:08,150 --> 00:10:11,487 [ Narrator] Gold is valuable in part because it's rare. 127 00:10:12,488 --> 00:10:14,573 But there's a lot more than we think. 128 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:20,788 Big history takes us back 4.6 billion years. 129 00:10:40,391 --> 00:10:44,478 [ Narrator] Gravity is pulling together space debris to form our home. 130 00:10:47,648 --> 00:10:49,358 Early Earth was molten... 131 00:10:49,442 --> 00:10:52,945 and most of the heavy metals sank to the core. 132 00:10:56,949 --> 00:10:58,617 There's enough gold... 133 00:10:58,701 --> 00:11:03,414 that you could cover Earth's surface to a thickness of 12 or 13 feet. 134 00:11:16,260 --> 00:11:18,471 [ Filippenko ] But that's a vault that can't be opened. 135 00:11:19,430 --> 00:11:22,350 We can't go down to the core of the Earth. 136 00:11:24,352 --> 00:11:27,772 [ Narrator] Our planet is the ultimate version of Fort Knox... 137 00:11:28,606 --> 00:11:32,610 guarding its gold supply under 1,800 miles of rock. 138 00:11:33,944 --> 00:11:36,614 But a new shipment of gold is on the way... 139 00:11:40,201 --> 00:11:43,371 carried in meteors that drive into Earth's crust. 140 00:11:45,956 --> 00:11:47,750 [ Explosions] 141 00:11:50,461 --> 00:11:52,338 - [ Rain Pattering ] - [Thunderclap ] 142 00:11:52,421 --> 00:11:55,424 [ Narrator] As endless rains seep underground... 143 00:11:55,508 --> 00:11:58,386 great heat boils the water to steam... 144 00:11:58,469 --> 00:12:02,056 bubbling the gold from the meteors up closer to the surface. 145 00:12:04,141 --> 00:12:05,976 Earth cools. 146 00:12:06,060 --> 00:12:09,980 The gold hardens to form veins and ore. 147 00:12:13,651 --> 00:12:15,569 For millions of years... 148 00:12:15,653 --> 00:12:18,948 all this treasure ls hidden under a global sea. 149 00:12:22,785 --> 00:12:25,579 Early on in Earth history, our planet was covered with water. 150 00:12:25,663 --> 00:12:27,623 It really was a water world. 151 00:12:28,666 --> 00:12:32,128 [ Narrator] But once again, things are about to change. 152 00:12:33,170 --> 00:12:35,005 Over time, plate tectonics- 153 00:12:35,089 --> 00:12:38,843 the presence of plate tectonics began to build continents. 154 00:12:41,303 --> 00:12:43,514 [ Narrator] Land masses emerge... 155 00:12:43,597 --> 00:12:46,350 lifting the Earth's stash of gold... 156 00:12:46,434 --> 00:12:48,894 taking it on another wild ride. 157 00:12:50,438 --> 00:12:53,524 Most will remain hidden beneath the sea floor. 158 00:12:56,402 --> 00:13:00,948 But as mountains rise, they will bring the treasure within reach of men. 159 00:13:03,117 --> 00:13:07,955 Then, what was once a single, sprawling land mass splits apart 160 00:13:09,248 --> 00:13:11,250 Water fills the gaps. 161 00:13:13,919 --> 00:13:16,464 Continents begin to move through plate tectonics... 162 00:13:16,547 --> 00:13:19,758 shifting this metal all over the planet- 163 00:13:20,759 --> 00:13:23,512 sometimes sitting on the surface, sometimes in streams... 164 00:13:23,596 --> 00:13:26,932 sometimes the edge of a seam just jutting up above ground. 165 00:13:28,434 --> 00:13:32,855 [ Narrator] So gold surfaces, but only in some places on Earth... 166 00:13:32,938 --> 00:13:37,401 ready to one day be found by us. 167 00:13:48,412 --> 00:13:52,291 [ Narrator] As we've seen, we're hardwired to seek gold. 168 00:13:53,125 --> 00:13:55,878 But as civilizations develop... 169 00:13:56,754 --> 00:13:59,006 we seek gold in different ways. 170 00:14:10,100 --> 00:14:12,520 [ Narrator] There are two sides to the ancient world. 171 00:14:13,521 --> 00:14:17,066 On one side of the planet, gold is used for money. 172 00:14:20,110 --> 00:14:23,697 But the civilizations of the Americas don't have coins. 173 00:14:24,907 --> 00:14:29,954 There, gold is used only to create objects of beauty and worship. 174 00:14:34,375 --> 00:14:39,463 Gold remains a divine me tel, reserved for gods and kings. 175 00:14:40,631 --> 00:14:42,631 [ Man ] Native people were totally fixated on it... 176 00:14:42,675 --> 00:14:44,885 in terms of what you could make with it. 177 00:14:44,969 --> 00:14:47,888 It was really neat stuff, but it wasn't money. 178 00:14:47,972 --> 00:14:51,100 [ Chattering, Laughing ] 179 00:14:51,183 --> 00:14:53,394 [ Narrator] In Europe, the thirst for shininess... 180 00:14:53,477 --> 00:14:57,106 has turned into an all-out obsession with money. 181 00:15:00,901 --> 00:15:03,487 [ Grunting ] 182 00:15:06,907 --> 00:15:11,495 And it is that lust for gold that will drive Europeans across the Atlantic. 183 00:15:13,247 --> 00:15:14,999 From the big historical perspective... 184 00:15:15,082 --> 00:15:19,587 what you're looking at is a collision of two types of value systems. 185 00:15:21,672 --> 00:15:23,674 [ Narrator] The big history of gold... 186 00:15:23,757 --> 00:15:26,510 of the planet, of us... 187 00:15:26,594 --> 00:15:28,679 will never be the same. 188 00:15:37,605 --> 00:15:40,190 [ Narrator] Big history has connected the story of gold... 189 00:15:40,274 --> 00:15:43,527 to an inevitable collision on a global scale. 190 00:15:45,904 --> 00:15:49,533 Molten gold bubbles up on early Earth... 191 00:15:52,703 --> 00:15:56,540 deposited like a buried treasure under the surface of the planet. 192 00:16:01,545 --> 00:16:05,966 The treasure moves with the continents as the planet splits in two. 193 00:16:10,596 --> 00:16:14,266 On one side, gold coins are used for trade. 194 00:16:15,726 --> 00:16:19,772 On the other, gold statues are used for worship. 195 00:16:22,149 --> 00:16:25,444 These great civilizations in the Americas, as impressive as they were... 196 00:16:25,527 --> 00:16:28,822 had not yet reached a stage in civilizational development... 197 00:16:28,906 --> 00:16:32,743 that required coinage to facilitate large-scale exchange. 198 00:16:32,826 --> 00:16:36,038 Gold is being used just to create these images of our gods... 199 00:16:36,121 --> 00:16:39,083 for its symbolic, elite imagery. 200 00:16:44,171 --> 00:16:47,007 [ Narrator] Now, after thousands of years apart... 201 00:16:47,841 --> 00:16:51,428 these two civilizations will meet and clash. 202 00:16:52,471 --> 00:16:53,514 [ Horse Whinnies ] 203 00:16:53,597 --> 00:16:55,557 Columbus leads the way. 204 00:16:56,892 --> 00:16:58,435 Thousands follow. 205 00:16:59,853 --> 00:17:02,398 One side is gold hungry... 206 00:17:02,481 --> 00:17:05,150 the other gold rich. 207 00:17:11,532 --> 00:17:15,077 [Grunting, Shouting ] 208 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:17,705 [ Gunshots ] 209 00:17:32,052 --> 00:17:35,848 [ Narrator] The scramble for wealth connects both sides of the planet. 210 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:40,644 A threshold is crossed, and there's no going back. 211 00:17:41,979 --> 00:17:45,774 The Americas become an outpost for the Spanish conquistadores. 212 00:17:46,692 --> 00:17:50,154 It is the start of the first truly global gold rush. 213 00:17:51,864 --> 00:17:55,451 [ Mann ] Almost all the gold that the Spaniards got initially... 214 00:17:55,534 --> 00:17:57,202 came from melting down statues. 215 00:17:57,286 --> 00:18:01,790 And to the Spaniards, these statues were sort of ugly and worthless. 216 00:18:01,874 --> 00:18:04,168 Where there was worth is when you packed it down... 217 00:18:04,251 --> 00:18:07,588 into the smallest lump you possibly could and put it in your ship. 218 00:18:07,671 --> 00:18:10,257 'Cause then it could be melted down into coins. 219 00:18:13,051 --> 00:18:14,636 [ Narrator] Today, many locations... 220 00:18:14,720 --> 00:18:18,182 still bear names given during the Spanish conquest. 221 00:18:18,891 --> 00:18:20,809 Like San Diego. 222 00:18:20,893 --> 00:18:24,938 Or Sacramento, a city just miles away from where... 223 00:18:25,022 --> 00:18:29,818 in 1848, James Marshall seized those shiny bits in the water. 224 00:18:31,695 --> 00:18:33,614 The discovery of gold in California... 225 00:18:33,697 --> 00:18:38,702 absolutely caused men to go mad with the gold fever. 226 00:18:41,580 --> 00:18:44,500 [ Narrator] Once again, the effects are global. 227 00:18:45,959 --> 00:18:48,796 Once you've identified all the gold fields in California... 228 00:18:48,879 --> 00:18:50,297 if you're a gold prospector, what do you do? 229 00:18:50,380 --> 00:18:53,634 Next is Australia and then Africa and then Siberia and then the Yukon. 230 00:18:55,219 --> 00:18:56,970 [ Narrator] The California gold rush... 231 00:18:57,054 --> 00:18:59,556 triggers gold rushes throughout the world. 232 00:19:00,390 --> 00:19:02,184 Russia. 233 00:19:02,267 --> 00:19:04,144 Australia. 234 00:19:04,228 --> 00:19:05,771 South Africa. 235 00:19:06,939 --> 00:19:10,025 [Shea ] The reason people speak Afrikaans and English in South Africa... 236 00:19:10,108 --> 00:19:13,111 is because the gold fields in those areas were attractive. 237 00:19:14,112 --> 00:19:16,490 They didn't go there to have an attractive place to raise goats. 238 00:19:16,573 --> 00:19:18,033 They were looking for gold. 239 00:19:18,116 --> 00:19:20,494 It was a global search for gold. 240 00:19:28,293 --> 00:19:31,255 [ Narrator] Between 1492 and 1900... 241 00:19:32,631 --> 00:19:36,510 the search for gold transforms the populations and civilizations... 242 00:19:36,593 --> 00:19:38,929 of one-third of the planet. 243 00:19:41,181 --> 00:19:44,893 Yet, for all its staggering impact on mankind... 244 00:19:45,769 --> 00:19:48,856 all the gold ever mined throughout history... 245 00:19:48,939 --> 00:19:51,984 would make up 80 feet of the Washington monument. 246 00:19:53,777 --> 00:19:57,781 All the gold currently in Fort Knox- less than three feet. 247 00:20:01,869 --> 00:20:05,747 But a little gold has had enormous consequences. 248 00:20:07,124 --> 00:20:09,877 [Christian ] Gold is one of those many topics that we love in big history... 249 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:14,882 because you can follow it from astronomy to geology... 250 00:20:14,965 --> 00:20:17,050 and then eventually into human societies. 251 00:20:17,134 --> 00:20:19,803 Why does it have this sort of magical quality... 252 00:20:19,887 --> 00:20:22,180 for so many human societies? 253 00:20:22,264 --> 00:20:25,058 This is a great big history question because it's a question about... 254 00:20:25,142 --> 00:20:27,561 the shape of large eras of human history. 255 00:20:29,313 --> 00:20:30,731 [ Narrator] From fragments in space- 256 00:20:30,814 --> 00:20:31,940 [ Explosion ] 257 00:20:32,983 --> 00:20:34,902 To bars in Fort Knox. 258 00:20:35,986 --> 00:20:38,280 From a symbol of divinity... 259 00:20:38,363 --> 00:20:39,948 to a symbol of wealth. 260 00:20:41,283 --> 00:20:44,119 The big history of gold is the story of a world... 261 00:20:44,202 --> 00:20:46,747 ripped apart by geological forces... 262 00:20:47,664 --> 00:20:51,001 and then reconnected by something even more powerful- 263 00:20:51,835 --> 00:20:53,795 the human imagination... 264 00:20:53,879 --> 00:20:57,257 pursuing an object it believes to be valuable. 265 00:21:01,678 --> 00:21:04,765 But the story of gold is just the beginning. 266 00:21:04,848 --> 00:21:07,893 There's a much bigger puzzle hidden in big history. 267 00:21:07,976 --> 00:21:10,354 Each episode unlocks a clue. 268 00:21:11,396 --> 00:21:12,981 Everyday things like beef... 269 00:21:14,524 --> 00:21:15,776 weapons... 270 00:21:16,860 --> 00:21:19,196 and cell phones hold the key. 271 00:21:20,030 --> 00:21:24,618 Watch them all, and you'll see this grand mystery revealed. 272 00:21:24,701 --> 00:21:28,205 The big history of time, of space... 273 00:21:28,288 --> 00:21:30,374 the big history of us. 23116

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