By Willie F
ISBN-10: 0816051992
ISBN-13: 9780816051991
Authoritative and Illuminating; This complete set covers the complete expanse of African historical past as by no means sooner than. It treats Africa - its geography, artwork, cultures, peoples, personalities, or even its natural world - in 3 volumes, each one dedicated to an immense interval within the continent's improvement. each one volume's in-depth, seriously cross-referenced, and alphabetical entries draw scholars, researchers, and common readers into the histories of historical towns, robust kingdoms, and charismatic leaders, lots of whom are little recognized. choked with attention-grabbing sidebars, strange illustrations, and especially magnificent tales, those available, beautiful, and extremely readable encyclopedias are authoriative info assets in addition to enteratining and illuminating courses to the world's so much different continent. historical Africa; This quantity covers the earliest phases of Africa's historical past, from civilization's beginnings throughout the steel Age, the kingdoms of Egypt and Nubia, Africa's interplay with historic Greece and Rome, and the increase of Kush and Aksum. African Kingdoms; the point of interest of tis quantity is at the interval from nearly 500 via 1500, encompassing the robust kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai in addition to the rich city-states of the west and south. African Conquest and Colonization; overlaying the interval from nearly 1500 to 1850, this quantity examines the Grain, Gold, and Slave Coasts; the increase of the slave exchange; the partitioning of West Africa; and the conventional governments, religions, and humanities of the areas.
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Why is Africa today the world’s poorest and most disadvantaged continent? What will it take to change this situation? Fundamental questions like these serve to spur further research on both the African past and present. There is a desire—indeed a pressing need—to discover more about Africa’s past and to better understand its present. For millions of people around the world, in Africa and elsewhere, it is part of a discovery of their own traditions and heritage as well as those of their neighbors and their ancestors.
Although these features can evolve in different cultures in radically different ways, their basic purpose remains constant. Accordingly, rather than try to cover the evolution of these cultural features in each volume, we offer a more general explanation in Volume I, with the understanding that the details of these cultural touchstones can vary widely from people to people and change over time. On the other hand there are entries related to key cultural and social dimensions whose changes are easier to observe over time.
Carthage dominates North Africa. Hanno explores Africa’s Atlantic coast. The Greco-Roman Period and Beyond 332 BCE Alexander the Great conquers Egypt; Ptolemaic Dynasty begins. xxxviii Time Line 264–146 BCE Period of Punic Wars; Carthage is destroyed. 200 BCE Meroë civilization begins. 30 BCE Roman conquest of Egypt. 24 CE Roman conquest of Nubia. 100 CE Iron technology spreads throughout Africa. 200 CE Christian monasticism in north-eastern Africa. 400 CE Bantu expansion slows down. 350 CE Decline and fall of Meroë.
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