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Africa's Great Civilizations
Season 1 · Episode 2
The Crescent and the Cross
0.053mFebruary 27, 2017
Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. charts the ancient rise of Christianity and Islam, whose economic and cultural influence stretched from Egypt to Ethiopia. Learn of African religious figures like King Lalibela, an Ethiopian saint, and Menelik, bringer of the Ark of the Covenant.