Explorations: Animal Farm: Long Term History: America:Why did advanced material civilizations not develop in Africa?
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Background to the Channel 4 Millennium Series ‘The Day the World Took Off’, shown in 2000. With thanks to Windfall Films.
Joel Mokyr tries to answer the puzzle of why it was not in Africa, the probable birthplace of humans, that the first advanced technologies emerged. Among the factors considered are tropical soils, disease and philosophies. |
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| Created: | 2018-03-11 17:42 |
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| Collection: | A History of the World (The Day the World Took Off) |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Prof Alan Macfarlane |
| Language: | eng (English) |
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