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  • Ancient Carthage

      Podcast
    Ancient Carthage was an ancient Semitic civilisation based in North Africa. Initially a settlement in present-day Tunisia, it later became a city-state and then an empire. Founded by the Phoenicians in the ninth century BC, Carthage reached its height in the fourth century BC as one of the largest metropolis in the world.  It was the centre of the Carthaginian Empire, a major power led...
    Ancient Carthage
  • Early Modern British Jewish History

      Podcast
    Shakespeare. Cromwell and Ben Israel. Marrano Jews become an integral part of the community.
    Early Modern British Jewish History
  • The Fatimid Caliphate

      909-1171
    The Fatimid Caliphate also known as the Fatimid Empire, was a caliphate extant from the tenth to the twelfth centuries CE under the rule of the Fatimids, an Isma'ili Shi'a dynasty. The Fatimids traced their ancestry to the Islamic prophet Muhammad's daughter Fatima and her husband Ali, the first Shi'a imam.  Originating during the Abbasid Caliphate, the Fatimids initially conquered Ifriqiya (roughly present-day Tunisia and north-eastern Algeria). They extended their...
    The Fatimid Caliphate