AFRICA’S GREAT CIVILIZATIONS

EMPIRES OF GOLD/CITIES

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM

The third hour in the series marks an era of great commercial and manufacturing growth throughout several regions on the continent. It begins with the revolutionary transformation of North and West Africa. On the shores of the Sahara Desert, farmers, traders, warriors and nomads turned this region into the crossroads of some of history’s most advanced, and wealthiest, civilizations. Intricate networks of long distance trade would link up productive commercial centers established by rulers of empires and kingdoms.

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