Please note I shall be delivering this talk in person at JW3, but you can choose to still join via zoom.
RIVER NILE
Introduction
'Egypt is the gift of the Nile'
The God Hapi
Fertile Soil/Irrigation/Nilometer
Joseph's Granaries
Transport
Source of The Nile: Intrepid Victorian Adventurers
Burton and Speke
The Bakers
Dr Livingstone and Stanley
Aswan Dam
The Nile flows on
One new book to refer to The White Nile by Alan Moorehead
The Rise and Fall of The Byzantine Empire Founding of Constantinople on site of older Byzantium Fall of Western Roman Empire, Survival of Eastern Empire (Byzantine) Christianity later divides between
From the The Rise of Islam to the Crusading Centuries The Pre Islamic Arabs Origins-Language-Tribal Societies- Attitude of Byzantines and Persians- Jewish contact in Book of Nehemiah Mohammed Early L
Welcome to this first lecture in a new series looking at Jewish and Arab histories Roman Palestine Rome and Jerusalem A very brief introduction of Peoples and their land Jews' troubles begin in the 60