The Cambridge history of Africa. Volume 2, From c.500 BC to AD 1050 / edited by J. D. Fage.
| Call Number | 960 |
| Title | The Cambridge history of Africa. edited by J. D. Fage. |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (xvii, 840 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2015). |
| Contents | Introduction / The legacy of prehistory: an essay on the background to the individuality of African cultures / North Africa in the period of Phoenician and Greek colonization, c. 800 to 323 BC / North Africa in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, 323 BC to AD 305 / The Nilotic Sudan and Ethiopia, c. 660 bc to c.ad 600 / Trans-Saharan contacts and the Iron Age in West Africa / The emergence of Bantu Africa / The Christian period in Mediterranean Africa, c.ad 200 to 700 / The Arab conquest and the rise of Islam in North Africa / Christian Nubia / The Fatimid revolution (861-973) and its aftermath in North Africa / The Sahara and the Sudan from the Arab conquest of the Maghrib to the rise of the Almoravids / |
| Summary | After the prehistory of Volume I, Volume II of The Cambridge History of Africa deals with the beginnings of history. It is about 500 BC that historical sources begin to embrace all Africa north of the Sahara and, by the end of the period, documentation is also beginning to appear for parts of sub-Saharan Africa. North of the Sahara, this situation arises since Africans were sharing in the major civilizations of the Mediterranean world. It is shown that these northern Africans were not simply passive recipients of Phoenician, Greek, Roman and Arab influences, or of the great religions and cultures of Judaism, Christianity and Islam coming from the Semitic world. They adapted these things to their own particular needs and purposes, and sometimes too contributed to their general development. But the North African civilization failed to make headway south of the Sahara. |
| Added Author | Fage, J. D. 1921- editor. |
| Subject | Africa History To 1884. |
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| Summary | After the prehistory of Volume I, Volume II of The Cambridge History of Africa deals with the beginnings of history. It is about 500 BC that historical sources begin to embrace all Africa north of the Sahara and, by the end of the period, documentation is also beginning to appear for parts of sub-Saharan Africa. North of the Sahara, this situation arises since Africans were sharing in the major civilizations of the Mediterranean world. It is shown that these northern Africans were not simply passive recipients of Phoenician, Greek, Roman and Arab influences, or of the great religions and cultures of Judaism, Christianity and Islam coming from the Semitic world. They adapted these things to their own particular needs and purposes, and sometimes too contributed to their general development. But the North African civilization failed to make headway south of the Sahara. |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2015). |
| Contents | Introduction / The legacy of prehistory: an essay on the background to the individuality of African cultures / North Africa in the period of Phoenician and Greek colonization, c. 800 to 323 BC / North Africa in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, 323 BC to AD 305 / The Nilotic Sudan and Ethiopia, c. 660 bc to c.ad 600 / Trans-Saharan contacts and the Iron Age in West Africa / The emergence of Bantu Africa / The Christian period in Mediterranean Africa, c.ad 200 to 700 / The Arab conquest and the rise of Islam in North Africa / Christian Nubia / The Fatimid revolution (861-973) and its aftermath in North Africa / The Sahara and the Sudan from the Arab conquest of the Maghrib to the rise of the Almoravids / |
| Subject | Africa History To 1884. |
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