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In New Mexico, Capri Cafaro learns about the history of chilies, the backbone of Southwestern cuisine, and their various uses today from Santa Fe to Hatch and beyond

Archaeologists examine the Moche people of Peru who flourished in a strip between the Pacific Ocean and the Andes mountains for 650 years before succumbing to a series of disasters

Delving into the era of the Norse who continue to bewilder archaeologists with their sudden disappearance from historical record at the start of the 15th century

Archaeologists look back at the Khmer Empire, founded at the beginning of the 9th century, one of the most powerful states in Southast Asia

An insight into Imperial Japan's military motives, culture, startling initial success as an aggressor, and eventual dramatic downfall

How Japan secured victory in Malaya and the fall of Singapore, and an exploration into the effect of the lack of cooperation between the Imperial Japanese Army and Imperial Navy

Examining the experiences of those in the occupied territories, the various puppet governments and attempts at guerrilla warfare, along with treatment of the PoWs

American bombing pounds the Japanese home islands and, in August 1945, atomic bombs fall on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The Watergate scandal forces President Nixon to resign, while North Vietnamese troops pour into the south and Saigon descends rapidly into chaos and collapses