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Africa's great civilizations. Episode 2, The crescent and the cross / a film by McGree Media, Inkwell Films & Kunhardt Film in association with Nutopia ; series producer, Graeme Hart ; produced and directed by Virginia Quinn ; with Henry Louis Gates Jr.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civilization.
- Christianity.
- Islam.
- Africa--History.
- Africa.
- Africa--Civilization.
- Genre:
- Documentary television programs.
- Nonfiction television programs.
- Educational television programs.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Internet videos.
- Streaming video.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (53 minutes)
- Other Title:
- Cross and the crescent
- Place of Publication:
- Arlington, VA : Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), 2017.
- Language Note:
- In English; closed-captioned.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- 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. The second hour of "Africa's Great Civilizations" charts the emergence of two powerful forces of global change, Christianity and Islam. Viewers will learn how pervasively "the Cross and the Crescent" reshaped the landscape and people of Africa between the first and 12th centuries A.D. - and for centuries to come. Setting the stage, host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. takes viewers to the horn of Africa, the meeting place of the Red and Arabian Seas and a trade corridor between Africa, the Middle East and Europe for thousands of years. A book written in Greek in first century A.D., The Periplus of the Eythrean Sea, speaks of the Red Sea's illustrious port Adulis, the gateway to Aksum.
- Participant:
- Host, Henry Louis Gates Jr.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed March 05, 2018).
- OCLC:
- 1030725971
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