Microsoft Encarta Africana (PC)

Microsoft Encarta Africana (PC)
by Microsoft Software
Platform: Windows 98 / 2000 / 95

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Review & Description

Encarta Africana brings the richness of Africa to life in the first comprehensive multimedia encyclopedia of Africans and people of African descent. Brimming with the sights and sounds of Africa, Encarta Africana lets you explore the great accomplishments of ancient civilizations as well as the traditions that Africans brought to the Americas, the Caribbean, Europe, and Asia. Encarta Africana makes this rich cultural heritage come alive, providing an indispensable learning tool and an essential part of your reference collection.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #505 in Software
• Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows 95
• Format: CD-ROM

Features

• As Encarta Africana unfolds, the user is drawn into the content by singers performing the South African anthem and greeted by visuals including cultural artwork, historical maps and photos of famous black people. Users then move further into the multitude of historical content through the click of a mouse
• Welcome. Users begin the journey through African history by clicking on the Welcome icon, which initiates an audio-video introduction of the product and its content by co-editors Gates and Appiah
• Articles. More than 3,000 detailed articles cover a broad range of topics. Students of all ages can learn about the slave trade; sports heroes such as Muhammad Ali, Jesse Owens and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; and the importance of Brazil in the African diaspora
• Features. Users can access features such as Africana on Camera to explore African and African-American topics with personalities such as Maya Angelou and Quincy Jones and interact with From Africa to the Americas, one of the first multimedia presentations chronicling the number of slaves dispersed to the Americas during the transatlantic slave trade from 1519 to 1867. Users can participate in Virtual Tours, visiting interesting locations in the African diaspora ranging from Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, to the Harlem section of New York City. The section also includes an Interactive Africa Map and six videos showing Historic Sites in Africa
• ime line. A detailed time line calls out important historical events from 4 million B.C.E. to the present and enables students of all ages to learn about subjects such as Lucy, the oldest and most complete skeleton of the earliest hominid species that lived between 3 million and 4 million years ago, found in Ethiopia. The time line also offers sections including Prehistory and Antiquity, Kingdoms of Africa, Exploring Africa and Exporting Africans, Abolition and Emancipation, Color Line and Colonialism, Civil Rights and Independence, and The Face of the Future