Catégorie : Culture Générale

• IHEDN et raison d'être

  Etablissement public placé sous la tutelle du Premier ministre dont la raison d’être est la formation et la sensibilisation de cadres de la nation aux problématiques de défense et de sécurité, de diplomatie et de géopolitique ; d’armement et d’économie de défense dans une perspective élargie aux dimensions de l’Europe, d’intégration européenne, eurocentrée le champ de compétence 3 champs disciplinaires Foyer de rayonnement de l’esprit de défense dans la nation à partir des relais que so...

• Cannaregio - venise

  Le nom dérivait des cannes et des roseaux qui occupait cet espace quand il était inhabité. Son premier nom était Canacleclo. Cannaregio ne s'est développé vers le nord jusqu'à la fin du XIVème siècle. Cannaregio est aussi le lieu où fut établi le premier ghetto, le 29 mars 1516. La résidence dans ce quartier fut imposée et réservée aux Juifs, originaires de l'Allemagne et de l'Europe centrale, sous la République de Venise. Il a été successivement agrandi, ajoutant à la petite île appelée Ghetto...

• Oedipe

  Sujet 1 : Œdipe CORRIGÉ A priori, l'histoire d'Œdipe est la résultante d'un secret de famille car il subit les conséquences d'une histoire survenue avant sa naissance et ignorée de lui. Néanmoins, les Grecs anciens, qui ne connaissaient pourtant pas le sens, très chrétien, du péché et de la faute originelle, le considéraient comme res­ ponsable et coupable d'une erreur qu'il n'avait pas commise. Nous allons nous interroger sur cette contradiction a...

• Kwame Nkrumah.

  Kwame Nkrumah. I INTRODUCTION Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), first prime minister (1957-1960) and president (1960-1966) of Ghana and the first black African postcolonial leader. Nkrumah led his country to independence from Britain in 1957 and was a powerful voice for African nationalism, but he was overthrown by a military coup nine years later after his rulegrew dictatorial. II EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION Kwame Nkrumah was born in the town of Nkroful in the southwestern corner of the British colony...

• Ancient Egypt.

  Ancient Egypt. I INTRODUCTION Ancient Egypt , civilization that thrived along the Nile River in northeastern Africa for more than 3,000 years, from about 3300 BC to 30 BC. It was the longest-lived civilization of the ancient world. Geographically, the term ancient Egypt indicates the territory where the ancient Egyptians lived in the valley and delta of the Nile. Culturally, it refers to the ways ancient Egyptians spoke, worshiped, understood the nature of the physical world, organized their...

• Suez Crisis.

  Suez Crisis. Suez Crisis , international confrontation along the Suez Canal in 1956 that pitted Egypt against the combined forces of Israel, Britain, and France. The crisis, which was provoked by Egypt’s nationalization of the strategic waterway, triggered the diplomatic intervention of both the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics(USSR). It was finally defused through the placement of a United Nations (UN) peacekeeping force in the canal zone. The Suez crisis began as a res...

• Pan-Africanism.

  Pan-Africanism. I INTRODUCTION Pan-Africanism , philosophy that is based on the belief that African people share common bonds and objectives and that advocates unity to achieve these objectives. In the views of different proponents throughout its history, Pan-Africanism has been conceived in varying ways. It has been applied to all black African people and peopleof black African descent; to all people on the African continent, including nonblack people; or to all states on the African continent....

• Cecil Rhodes.

  Cecil Rhodes. Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902), British colonial statesman and financier, one of the main promoters of British rule in southern Africa. Cecil John Rhodes was born July 5, 1853, in Bishop's Stortford, England. In 1870 he was sent to live with his brother in Africa, in the area now known as South Africa.Diamond fields were discovered at Kimberley in Cape Colony that year, and Rhodes became a diamond prospector. By the time he was 19 years old he had accumulateda large fortune. In 1873 he...

• Les migrationsLa conquête de la Gaule par Jules César a freiné pendantprès de quatre siècles les migrations des Germains vers lesud-ouest.

  
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• Idi Amin.

• Aksum.

• Sharpeville Massacre.

  Sharpeville Massacre. Sharpeville Massacre , incident in 1960, when South African police opened fire on a crowd of black protesters. The confrontation occurred in the township of Sharpeville, in what is now Gauteng province, in northeastern South Africa. Following the election of the National Party to office in South Africa in 1948, a policy of racial segregation known as apartheid was introduced. Apartheid was designed toregulate the lives of the black majority and to maintain white minority ru...

• Jomo Kenyatta.

  Jomo Kenyatta. I INTRODUCTION Jomo Kenyatta (1894?-1978), first prime minister (1963-1964) and then first president (1964-1978) of Kenya. Kenyatta was Kenya’s founding father, a conservative nationalist who led the East African nation to independence from Britain in 1963. II EARLY YEARS Kenyatta was born in Gatundu in the part of British East Africa that is now Kenya; the year of his birth is uncertain, but most scholars agree he was born in the 1890s.He was born into the Kikuyu ethnic group,...

• Hosni Mubarak.

• Nelson Mandela.

• Boer War.

  Boer War. I INTRODUCTION Boer War (1899-1902), conflict in southern Africa between Britain and the allied, Afrikaner-populated Transvaal (or South African Republic) and Orange Free State, in what is now South Africa; also known as the South African War. II TENSIONS LEADING TO WAR Throughout the 19th century, after Britain had acquired the Cape of Good Hope in 1814 and expanded its possessions in southern Africa, ill feeling mounted betweenthe Dutch-descended population, called Afrikaners, or B...

• Plan détaillé de l'extrait 2: de « Or, je trouve » à « PrimumDedit »Au cours du XVIème siècle, la pensée humanisme se répand à travers l'Europe, pensée centréesur l'Homme, sa situation et sa place dans le monde et son futur.

  Plan détaillé de l'extrait 2: de « Or, je trouve » à « Primum Dedit » Au cours du XVIème siècle, la pensée humanisme se répand à travers l'Europe, pensée centrée sur l'Homme, sa situation et sa place dans le monde et son futur. À cette époque aussi, c'est le temps des grandes découvertes. La Portugal, l'Espagne et la France découvre le Nouveau Monde et ses populations, leurs différences, leurs coutumes et leurs m œurs. Montaigne, grand humaniste très réputé, ancien homme politique qui se réfu...

• Mfecane.

  Mfecane. I INTRODUCTION Mfecane , period of upheaval in southern Africa in the early decades of the 19th century, characterized by widespread warfare between chiefdoms centered in what is now eastern South Africa, and the subsequent mass migrations of numerous other chiefdoms. The term mfecane comes from a Nguni word that means “the crushing.” It is also known as difaqane , the Southern Sotho equivalent. The mfecane reshaped the political and cultural map of southern Africa, as new kingdoms a...

• F. W. de Klerk.F. W. de Klerk, born in 1936,

  F. W. de Klerk. F. W. de Klerk , born in 1936, president of South Africa (1989-1994) and Nobel laureate, whose reforms led to the end of apartheid. Frederik Willem De Klerk was born in Johannesburg and earned a law degree from Potchefstroom University in 1958. He was elected to the South African parliament in 1972 for the National Party andlater held a number of cabinet posts. When P. W. Botha resigned as the country's president in August 1989 because of ill health, de Klerk, as the leader of th...

• Apartheid.

  Apartheid. Apartheid , policy of racial segregation formerly followed in South Africa. The word apartheid means “separateness” in the Afrikaans language and it described the rigid racial division between the governing white minority population and the nonwhite majority population. The National Party introduced apartheid as part of their campaignin the 1948 elections, and with the National Party victory, apartheid became the governing political policy for South Africa until the early 1990s. Alt...