{"id":213233,"date":"2019-05-02T07:00:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T10:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=213233"},"modified":"2019-06-30T16:31:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T19:31:00","slug":"collective-offers-course-on-lebanon-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/collective-offers-course-on-lebanon-jordan\/","title":{"rendered":"Collective offers course on Lebanon, Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Collective Lente Cultural<\/em> is offering the course Lebanon and Jordan: The Age of Commercial Civilizations<\/em>. Spanning three lessons, it will be taught by professor Plinio Freire Gomes on May 13, 15 and 17, from 7:30 pm to 10 pm at Espa\u00e7o Lente Cultural, S\u00e3o Paulo. Enrolments are open.<\/p>\n

The lessons will cover commercial civilizations in Beirut, Byblos, Sidon, Tyre, Baalbek (Lebanon) and Petra (Jordan) during the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, around 1,200 BC. That period saw the region\u2019s economy thrive in an unprecedented way. Pictured above, a camel in Petra, Jordan.<\/p>\n

According to Gomes, activities like farming, shepherding and handicraft created more and more surplus production, and that wealth created demand for luxury items, which almost always had to be brought from very far away. The combination of those factors greatly accelerated trade, and as a result, what formerly were regionwide-only routes expanded rapidly.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst the merchants conquered the oceans. New shipbuilding techniques created vessels that set out at regular intervals between Crete and Egypt, or between the Greek Islands in the Aegean Sea, Asia Minor and Syria. Soon thereafter, around the year 1,000 BC, another crucial innovation broadened the possibilities for trade even further. In the northern portion of the Arabian Peninsula, somewhere between what is now Saudi Arabia and Jordan, Bedouin tribes learned to domesticate a clumsy, but tenacious quadruped \u2013 the camel,\u201d Gomes told ANBA via email during a trip to Tehran, Iran.<\/p>\n

The historian stressed that until this day, the animal is called safinat al-sahra<\/em> (Arabic for desert ship). Caravans came and went, loaded up with goods, across what once had been impenetrable areas,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The notion of circulation that came with the domestication of camels redefined economic reality. \u201cThe need to connect far-removed manufacturing and consumption prompted the emergence of cultures which specialized in negotiating. Peoples like the Phoenicians and Nabataeans were unrivaled in the art of buying and selling, establishing bona fide commercial civilizations,\u201d concluded the professor.<\/p>\n

Plinio Freire Gomes holds a master\u2019s in History from the University of S\u00e3o Paulo and is the author of O Herege vai ao Para\u00edso<\/em> (Companhia das Letras). He has taught at Masp, Mam, Casa do Saber, Centro Universit\u00e1rio Maria Antonia and the Institute of Arab Culture. Gomes is a founding member of the Lente Cultural collective. He currently teaches conferences and courses on Art History, with an emphasis on the Greek, Roman and Renaissance periods, but his primary field of work is Islamic culture.<\/p>\n

Enrolment for the course is available on the Lente Cultural\u00a0website<\/a>.\u00a0Seats are limited.<\/p>\n

Quick facts <\/strong><\/p>\n

Lebanon and Jordan: The Age of Commercial Civilizations
\nProfessor Plinio Freire GomesMay 13, 15, 17
\nMon, Wed, Fri, 7:30 pm-10 pm
\nEspa\u00e7o Lente Cultural
\nAvenida Brigadeiro Faria Lima, 1690, conj. 41
\nS\u00e3o Paulo
\nFull 3-class course: BRL 255.00
\nSingle class: BRL 95.00
\nEnrolments open<\/a><\/p>\n

Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mint Images\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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