Late antiquity is the time of transition from classical antiquity to the Middle Ages, generally spanning the 4th–6th century in Europe and adjacent areas bordering the Mediterranean Basin.The popularization of this periodization in English has generally been credited to historian Peter Brown, after the publication of his seminal work The World of Late Antiquity (1971).

Cheikh Anta Diop (29 December 1923 – 7 February 1986) was a Senegalese historian, anthropologist, physicist, and politician who studied the human race's origins and pre-colonial African culture. Diop's work is considered foundational to the theory of Afrocentricity, though he himself never described himself as an Afrocentrist. The questions he posed about cultural bias …

The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years is a 1988 documentary film directed by Penelope Spheeris.Filmed between August 1987 and February 1988, the film chronicles the late 80s Los Angeles heavy metal scene. It is the second film of a trilogy by Spheeris depicting life in Los Angeles at various points in time as seen through the eyes of …

Syria (Arabic: سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, romanized: Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic (Arabic: الجمهورية العربية السورية, romanized: al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.It is a unitary republic that consists of 14 governorates (subdivisions), and is bordered ...

Europa Universalis II erschien im November 2001 und lässt den Spieler die Kontrolle über ein Land seiner Wahl in den Jahren von 1419 bis 1819 übernehmen. Während die „Große Kampagne“ die maximale Spieldauer ausschöpft, beschränken sich andere auf kürzere historische Epochen, z. B. „Napoleons Ambitionen“ auf die napoleonische Ära. ...

The term modern period or modern era (sometimes also called modern history or modern times) is the period of history that succeeds the Middle Ages (which ended approximately 1500 AD). This terminology is a historical periodization that is applied primarily to European and Western history.. The modern era can be further divided as follows: The early modern period lasted from c. AD …

文明の概念 文明の発生. 文明が発生するには、まず前提として農耕による食糧生産の開始と、それによる余剰農産物の生産がなければならない。 最初期の農耕はオリエントの肥沃な三日月地帯において11,000年前、パプアニューギニアで9,000年前の証拠が発見されている。

The Hamitic hypothesis reached its apogee in the work of C. G. Seligman, who argued in his book The Races of Africa (1930) that: . Apart from relatively late Semitic influence... the civilizations of Africa are the civilizations of the Hamites, its history is the record of these peoples and of their interaction with the two other African stocks, the Negro and the Bushmen, whether this ...