The Cambridge History of Africa, Volume 2J. D. Fage, Roland Anthony Oliver 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
an essay on | 11 |
North Africa in the period of Phoenician | 87 |
North Africa in the Hellenistic and Roman | 148 |
The Nilotic Sudan and Ethiopia c 660 BC to c AD 600 | 210 |
4528 | 231 |
70 | 261 |
TransSaharan contacts and the Iron | 272 |
The Christian period in Mediterranean | 410 |
The Arab conquest and the rise of Islam | 490 |
University of Stirling | 506 |
Christian Nubia | 556 |
The Fatimid revolution 861973 and | 589 |
The Sahara and the Sudan from the Arab conquest | 637 |
Bibliographical essays | 685 |
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