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6 days ago · Africa Encountered: European Contacts and Evidence 1450-1700. N/A, Variorum, 1997, ISBN: 9780860786269; 346pp.; Price: £75.00. Paul Hair, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Liverpool, is best known as one of the pioneers of the academic study of the history of sub-Saharan (or in Hair’s own preferred terminology, Black) Africa ...
1 day ago · The history of Africa begins with the emergence of hominids, archaic humans and — around 300,000–250,000 years ago — anatomically modern humans ( Homo sapiens ), in East Africa, and continues unbroken into the present as a patchwork of diverse and politically developing nation states. [1]
1 day ago · The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD 500), the Middle Ages (AD 500–1500), and the modern era (since AD 1500). [citation needed] The first early European modern humans appear in the fossil record about 48,000 years ago, during the ...
2 days ago · maximal Celtic expansion, by the 3rd century BC. Lusitanian and Vettones ' area where Celtic presence has been proposed by Koch and Cunliffe. The "Miracle of the Rain" depicted on the Column of Marcus Aurelius in Rome. The Celts were the first population in the territory of present-day Slovakia who can be identified on the basis of written ...
1 day ago · Louis XIV (born September 5, 1638, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France—died September 1, 1715, Versailles, France) was the king of France (1643–1715) who ruled his country, principally from his great palace at Versailles, during one of its most brilliant periods and who remains the symbol of absolute monarchy of the classical age.
2 days ago · Tâi-oân le̍k-sú. The history of the island of Taiwan dates back tens of thousands of years to the earliest known evidence of human habitation. [1] [2] The sudden appearance of a culture based on agriculture around 3000 BC is believed to reflect the arrival of the ancestors of today's Taiwanese indigenous peoples. [3]
1 day ago · During the 1983–2005 Second Sudanese Civil War, people were taken into slavery. [12] Evidence emerged in the late 1990s of systematic child slavery and trafficking on cacao plantations in West Africa. [13] Slavery in the 21st century continues and generates an estimated $150 billion in annual profits. [14]
