~19:35 The fact that they just highlighted the modern country of Mali as the "Mali Empire" causes me pain. The Mali Empire had very different borders to modern Mali; it didn't stretch as far north as modern Mali, but stretched further east into what is now Burkina Faso, and west into what is now Senegal, along with including parts of a variety of other neighboring countries. What they did is a bit like if they'd shown a picture of modern France and labelled it "Frankish Empire" - there's some overlap, but the specific borders are way off. ~23:29 The Sankore Mosque is not the oldest Mosque south of the Sahara, unless you mean directly south of the Sahara; the oldest Mosques in Sub-Saharan Africa more generally (and the oldest in Africa as a whole, in fact) are in the Horn of Africa, which boasts several early-7th century Mosques. The Sankore Mosque also dates back further than the 14th century; it became a popular Madrassa at that time, but the Mosque was first built in the 10th century.
I like how the narration part is done its fabulous but it lacks the animation and visual elements like other documentaries. I hope this message will be considered.
Great series of lectures but rather eurocentric. In one of the episodes, she states how the West got their civilisation from the Romans and the Greeks, mentioning Aristotle for philosophy and Galen for medicine. However, she doesn't say how the Greeks and the Romans got it from Africans ie the ancient Egyptians. Aristotle studied in Egypt and when Alexander the Macedonian took over the country he made off with about 1000 manuscripts from there and claimed he was the author. Unfortunately someof them were written before he was born. For medicine, the ancient Egyptian multi genius Imhotep preceded Galen by many centuries.
Is one conquest was not all peaceful or unnoticed literally millions of people died by the time the Moors entered Spain. Your teaching history you need to be truthful rather than politically correct!
A little unfair. The teacher is - presumably - addressing younger students (in US America) with no means of experiencing the still-lived history (even after two massively destructive world wars) in Europe. Even today's Europeans have little concept of just how old their way of living is, and was shaped, from before the 'Fall' i.e. decay of the once ubiquitous Roman government, itself replace not with uncivilised barbarian hordes but mostly Germanic Christians, with their own rather developed systems of government (some of which mirrored or was influenced by, imperial Rome). Britain, where most US Americans fixed their gaze, was slightly different even to the nearest mainland pagan (agriculturalist) warrior bands, e.g the Franks (yes, the French). Britain's Romanised upper crust had eventually - but only eventually - fled the Anglo-Saxon rule c 450's (forty years after the imperial Roman administration had been evicted), in what became England; this was not quite the same story everywhere, and it was not at all the reality experienced in Gaul (modern France) .. where Romanness remained in cities and countryside alike (if no longer under Roman command). A relatively wide area of Western Europe looks and even works as it does today, for better or worse, because of the Germanic accommodation of Roman civic administration; add in Frankish and Italian (Arabic and Byzantine) influences, also the needs met only by growth in their own technological and commercial developments, and their you come face to face with the mish-mash conglomeration of: Europe .. quite unlike most of Northern or some of Central America. ;o)
Excellent. She has a gift for narrative.
I listened at 2x. Good video.
~19:35 The fact that they just highlighted the modern country of Mali as the "Mali Empire" causes me pain. The Mali Empire had very different borders to modern Mali; it didn't stretch as far north as modern Mali, but stretched further east into what is now Burkina Faso, and west into what is now Senegal, along with including parts of a variety of other neighboring countries. What they did is a bit like if they'd shown a picture of modern France and labelled it "Frankish Empire" - there's some overlap, but the specific borders are way off.
~23:29 The Sankore Mosque is not the oldest Mosque south of the Sahara, unless you mean directly south of the Sahara; the oldest Mosques in Sub-Saharan Africa more generally (and the oldest in Africa as a whole, in fact) are in the Horn of Africa, which boasts several early-7th century Mosques. The Sankore Mosque also dates back further than the 14th century; it became a popular Madrassa at that time, but the Mosque was first built in the 10th century.
I cringed when that map showed up.
I like how the narration part is done its fabulous but it lacks the animation and visual elements like other documentaries.
I hope this message will be considered.
why there is no attention on this wonderful channel !?
Really great...
WOW! This was really good. Thank you very much. ❤
Great series of lectures but rather eurocentric. In one of the episodes, she states how the West got their civilisation from the Romans and the Greeks, mentioning Aristotle for philosophy and Galen for medicine. However, she doesn't say how the Greeks and the Romans got it from Africans ie the ancient Egyptians. Aristotle studied in Egypt and when Alexander the Macedonian took over the country he made off with about 1000 manuscripts from there and claimed he was the author. Unfortunately someof them were written before he was born. For medicine, the ancient Egyptian multi genius Imhotep preceded Galen by many centuries.
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Is one conquest was not all peaceful or unnoticed literally millions of people died by the time the Moors entered Spain. Your teaching history you need to be truthful rather than politically correct!
You can always rely on teachers to teach the opposite of the truth.
An American talking nonsense about Europe, history certainly likes to repeat itself! 90% pure reinvention.
A little unfair. The teacher is - presumably - addressing younger students (in US America) with no means of experiencing the still-lived history (even after two massively destructive world wars) in Europe. Even today's Europeans have little concept of just how old their way of living is, and was shaped, from before the 'Fall' i.e. decay of the once ubiquitous Roman government, itself replace not with uncivilised barbarian hordes but mostly Germanic Christians, with their own rather developed systems of government (some of which mirrored or was influenced by, imperial Rome).
Britain, where most US Americans fixed their gaze, was slightly different even to the nearest mainland pagan (agriculturalist) warrior bands, e.g the Franks (yes, the French). Britain's Romanised upper crust had eventually - but only eventually - fled the Anglo-Saxon rule c 450's (forty years after the imperial Roman administration had been evicted), in what became England; this was not quite the same story everywhere, and it was not at all the reality experienced in Gaul (modern France) .. where Romanness remained in cities and countryside alike (if no longer under Roman command).
A relatively wide area of Western Europe looks and even works as it does today, for better or worse, because of the Germanic accommodation of Roman civic administration; add in Frankish and Italian (Arabic and Byzantine) influences, also the needs met only by growth in their own technological and commercial developments, and their you come face to face with the mish-mash conglomeration of: Europe .. quite unlike most of Northern or some of Central America.
;o)
wow