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For other localingo quizzes
“Who is from where ?” Quiz
Posted on July 24th, 2007 by tanguyFiled under: Africa, America, Asia, ENGLISH, Europe, Middle East, Quiz, tests - are you from earth ?, cross-cultural, ethnic, "race", multicultural, mixity | No Comments »
The Silk Road - historical maps.
An historical bridge between East and West, West and East, a constant exchange throughout History. “A concept that illustrates the way that commodities, empires, religions, and even music, have traveled throughout Eurasia for thousands of years”.
This time map (pop-ups to be allowed) shows how many ways / routes existed when going from one side to the other ; an evolution from the Roman Empire, Alexander the Great, Marco Polo, Sir Aurel Stein (?), Ruy Gonzales de Clavijo, Anthony Jenkinson, Benedict Goës,… Only European explorers were mentioned - what about Asians ? There must have certainly been some (Genghis Khan ?).. Arabs used as well to extensively travel the world. (A pity the only information taught in (Belgian) school is mainly about “national progress for humanity”, forgetting the foreign ones. When history is about politics…)
From a cultural point of view, the same organization (ECAI Berkeley) made up a similar map concerning music instruments… very interesting
When you give a closer look to the map, you can notice the importance of Persia (currently Iran) in this global transportation network : a compulsory gate controlling two seas,… I can just imagine the cultural heritage 2500 years+ of caravans must have left to this country.
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civilization love clash
Posted on June 2nd, 2007 by tanguyFiled under: ENGLISH, Middle East, cross-cultural, ethnic, "race", multicultural, mixity, religion(s), society, demography, global trends, Zeitgeist | No Comments »
6 billion others… testimonials from all over the world
Yann Arthus Bertrand - a french photographer - has been prolific in photo projects (”terre vue du ciel” where he took pictures from a hot air balloon all around the earth). His current one is about describing people from all around the world. If you want to meet your global neighbour, click here, and enjoy, even if because these interviews are quite short, I believe they are stereotyped… let’s say it’s just nice.
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Alhambra - a historical Muslim-Catholic exchange
Between the 13th and the 15th Century, Grenada got ruled by the Muslim Nasridi princes. During that time, before getting kicked out by the Catholic Kings who wanted to reconquer the rest of Spain (”La Reconquista”), they built up these fortress and palaces on the Sabika hill.
The interesting point is these Catholic Kings decided to not destroy this fine piece of art, but instead let it intact, sometimes adapting it (mosks were of course transformed into churches, sometimes destroyed, sometimes rebuilt).
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