Africas Great Civilisation

BBC - Africa's Great Civilisations Series 1: Clash of Civilisations (2018) Movies

Posted by notbanned at July 11, 2018

The award-winning film-maker and academic Henry Louis Gates Jr travels the length and breadth of Africa to explore the continent's epic history. In the final part of Africa's Great Civilisations, Henry Louis Gates Jr reviews the 19th century, when a fierce competition for resources and trade stimulated ingenuity but also enticed European powers, triggering the 'scramble for Africa' and inciting conflicts that threatened the stability and wellbeing of the continent.

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BBC - Africa's Great Civilisations Series 1: The Atlantic Age (2018) Movies

Posted by notbanned at July 4, 2018

The award-winning film-maker and academic Henry Louis Gates Jr travels the length and breadth of Africa to explore the continent's epic history. The Atlantic Age examines the tremendous changes that took place in Africa between the 15th and 18th centuries - including the seismic transformation as West African kingdoms encountered European mariners travelling farther and farther south along Africa's Atlantic coast, and the impact of European colonisation of the New World. Across the continent, kingdoms and empires rose and fell, with some 12.5 million Africans suffering enslavement in the crossfire.

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Africa's Great Civilizations (2017) Movies

Posted by notbanned at March 4, 2017

Africa's Great Civilizations In his six-hour series, Africa's Great Civilizations, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. takes a new look at the history of Africa, from the birth of humankind to the dawn of the 20th century. This is a breathtaking and personal journey through two hundred thousand years of history, from the origins, on the African continent, of art, writing, and civilization itself, through the millennia in which Africa and Africans shaped not only their own rich civilizations, but also the wider world.

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BBC - Africa's Great Civilisations Series 1: Empires of Gold (2018) Movies

Posted by notbanned at June 15, 2018

The award-winning film-maker and academic Henry Louis Gates Jr travels the length and breadth of Africa to explore the continent's epic history. Empires of Gold marks an era of great commercial and manufacturing growth throughout several of the continent's regions. Beginning with the revolutionary transformation of north and west Africa, Gates travels to the shores of the Sahara Desert, where farmers, traders, warriors and nomads have turned the region into the crossroads of some of history's most advanced and wealthiest civilisations.

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BBC - Africa's Great Civilisations Series 1: The Cross and the Crescent (2018) Movies

Posted by notbanned at June 14, 2018

The award-winning film-maker and academic Henry Louis Gates Jr travels the length and breadth of Africa to examine the continent's epic history. This episode charts the emergence of Christianity and Islam and examines how the two religions reshaped Africa between the first and the 12th centuries AD, as well as for centuries thereafter. Gates also recounts the strategic importance of the Horn of Africa - a meeting place between the Red and Arabian seas that has served as a vital trade corridor between Africa, the Middle East and Europe for millennia.

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BBC - Africa's Great Civilisations Series 1: Origins (2018) Movies

Posted by notbanned at June 13, 2018

Henry Louis Gates Jr takes a new look at the history of Africa, from the birth of humankind to the dawn of the 20th century. The award-winning film-maker and academic Henry Louis Gates Jr travels the length and breadth of Africa to explore the continent's epic history. In this first episode, Gates focuses on the origins of human existence and looks at the anthropological and scientific discoveries that point to Africa as the genetic home of all currently living humanity. He then traces the roots of agriculture, writing, artistic expression and iron working to their birthplaces on the African continent.

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Medieval Central Asia and the Persianate World: Iranian Tradition and Islamic Civilisation eBooks & eLearning

Posted by arundhati at Nov. 21, 2021

A.C.S. Peacock, "Medieval Central Asia and the Persianate World: Iranian Tradition and Islamic Civilisation "
English | ISBN: 1784532398 | 2015 | 256 pages | PDF | 16 MB

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Henri de Man, "L'ère des masses et le déclin de la civilisation" eBooks & eLearning

Posted by TimMa at Sept. 12, 2020

Le monde est plein de gens qui vous déclarent qu'une troisième guerre mondiale aboutirait fatalement à la ruine totale de notre civilisation. Vous n'en entendrez pas moins la plupart d'entre eux vous parler tout aussitôt d'une guerre pour le salut de cette mème civilisation. De cette contradiction bien peu ont conscience et cela prouve combien, chez l'immense majorité de nos contemporains, le slogan affectif fait obstacle à une vision lucide et fondée en raison de la réalité. Une telle situation doit ètre tirée au clair. …

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Géraldine Pilleul, "L'Atlantide : Redécouverte d'une civilisation oubliée" eBooks & eLearning

Posted by TimMa at March 8, 2023

En s'appuyant sur les indications laissées par les prêtres de l'Egypte antique, l'auteure se propose de démontrer que l'Atlantide n'est pas une civilisation légendaire vieille de dix mille ans, mais un ensemble culturel cohérent qui a existé dans un passé plus récent, dont sont notamment témoins les textes de Platon. …

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Graham Hancock, "La Clé de la civilisation perdue - Les mystères des premiers peuplements" eBooks & eLearning

Posted by TimMa at Nov. 11, 2020

Malgré les avancées scientifiques, les origines de l'humanité restent couvertes de zones d'ombres. De l'Amazonie encore inexplorée au célèbre site d'Angkor Wat, des lignes de Nazca à Stonehenge, des terrassements américains aux pyramides égyptiennes, Graham Hancock part à la découverte des mystères qui entourent la Préhistoire et les premiers peuplements, accompagné des plus grands spécialistes. Attentif à ne pas laisser les idées préconçues entraver sa recherche, il remet en cause les vérités établies et ouvre la porte à de nouvelles possibilités. …

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