Intellect PlusHistory by continent and region
63 cards. Each one is a 40-second story with a five-minute read behind it. Page 2 of 2.
Africa's past runs deeper than colonial maps admitModern humans emerged in East Africa some 300,000 to 250,000 years ago; archaic relatives had already left far earlier. From Egypt and Kerma to Mali, Aksum, and Great Zimbabwe, th…
Antarctica was imagined for centuries before anyone saw itMarinus of Tyre coined Antarctic in the second century CE. Cook crossed the circle in 1773 without sighting mainland. Sealers and national voyages finally proved a continent aroun…
Asia's river valleys invented cities—then faced the steppeChinese and Indian civilizations are among the world's oldest continuous cultures, joined early by Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus, and the Yellow River. Nomads from the Eurasian st…