I remember I did see it - or at least part of it - back when it came out.

It was fascinating, but I never understood exactly what was the point and now I get it less than ever.

Yes: civilizations copy each other, they assimilate and mutate other cultures into some new blend that become the new canon, and the cycle repeats. With them same cycle happens to religions and ideologies which are just TOOLS used to achieve power and greatness, never the source of anything.

Yes, there are powerful people and families that work together and lobby for decades and generation to shape the world somehow. Most of the time, they fail. They can lead and manipulate but only if they find the right alliances (in other elite) as well as the proper way to narrate to get the people support. But people are stupid? Maybe, but I wouldn't be so sure about that.

My point is: when I see documentaries like that one, I think that's not a good angle to use to try and interpret what is going on and why. It's not false or anything. Just a way of analysing facts that leads... nowhere.

Following that path - a simplistic example you shall forgive me - one ends up believing that is Donald J. Trump being elected president that made the price of Bitcoin raise last fall.

It's not. It is a "coincidence", or an alignment. We all know that Bitcoin has far deeper root that whoever sit in whatever office, anytime.

Same is for the rest of history. Long term movements belongs to populations. Not in the sense of "power to the people" but that in the end, without those people, nobody goes anywhere.

Napoleon did not invade Russia alone. He managed to have support of France people and half million soldiers walked with him across Europe. You do not do that by scamming people. That's real support. Stupid? Ignorant? Violent? Whatever, but real support.