History of Kenya

The article I chose to critique is Bring out your dead: people, pots, and politics by Don Brothwell (2004). I think this is a fairly well written article with a few minor parts. One problem I have is how he mentions other cultures and their time scale. Some cultures that we don’t know much about would be hard to tell if this was the case. In other culture their time scale is stranger, if a person in the group gets older it is said they are 100 years old. It would be smart to radiocarbon date…

The Mogadishu city state experienced autonomous growth after the events of Arab slave trade. In Kenya, there were Lamu, Malindi and Mombasa city states that experienced massive growth from the Arab slave trade. In Tanzania, there was Kilwa city that followed the similar growth pattern to its neighbouring city states. These city states emerged from…

All of Africa’s people are diverse. The Maasai, Tuareg, and Bambuti are all tribes in Africa. The Maasai people are the original settlers of southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. The Tuareg are a pastoralist society in North and West Africa. The Bambuti live primarily in the congo Basin and Ituri Forest. It is believed that all humans have migrated from Africa. Africa is the only continent with fossil evidence of human beings. Most scientists believe humans first appeared in Africa, then spread…

troubling Kenya and ironically asks, “Is it because Kenya does not have an accomplished, unifying football team?” (345). This evidence sets up the magnitude of the next concept he introduces: that “over the last century, sports have rarely spawned true national harmony and reconciliation. Instead, they provide a convenient tool for one part of a nation – or, even, for one leader- to oppress the rest of it” (345). He also backs up this point by introducing infamous examples of sports in history.…

Christian attempts to cover world history in a mere 120 pages. David divides his book into three periods: the era of foragers, the agrarian era, and the modern era. Within these periods he describes the various lifestyles our ancestors lived in, the advancements achieved, and what ultimately brought upon the succeeding era. In essence, David Christian goal in writing his novel is to filter out the unnecessary jargon in world history and convey a more concise history of humanity (p. XVII).…

Final Exam In our study of World History this semester would you say that the ‘ancient’ or past civilizations that we have looked at are drastically different than the societies in which we live today ? Throughout history, a plethora of civilizations ranging through time from ancient to modern, have displayed traits that allow them to be deemed similar or contrasting from other societies. However, the civilizations that have been discussed in class this semester are not so dissimilar than the…

Scholar R.J. Raack is for “film as history” by arguing that the traditional written history is too narrow to focus on the complexity of it. Raack states that film is the most appropriate medium for because, “Only film can provide an adequate "empathetic reconstruction to convey how historical people witnessed, understood, and lived their lives." Only film can "recover all the past 's liveliness” (1176). Furthermore, he believes this because of film’s ability to juxtapose images and sound and the…

As said by Tony, it is important to understand the historical accuracy of events, whether they are truth or ‘historical drama’. This is the same with movies. Often when movies are produced, they are done so with the intention to present history in an entertaining way, and this leads to inaccuracies. This is shown in the movie Belle. Belle is a movie produced in 2013, based on Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lord Mansfield in the 18th and 19th Century. Belle is based lightly on a true story, this comes…

Should Women be allowed in Combat? Woman should be allowed in combat for many reasons. First of all allowing woman into combat situations would make our military more effective by putting talent into sections that were frowned upon before, it would help our forces become more modernized, putting women into combat situations would not break tradition because women have served in every war since the revolutionary war, and would put ability above gender. Allowing woman into combat…

Military history has had it up and down throughout the years depending on who you are talk to about it. It has always be popular it with the public who are not scholar for a living, but in academic world it is not as popular as it is public. Before getting on what current state of military history need to know the historiography of the military history and how it effect how military is seen in today. The historiography of the military history has change over the years from the starter of…