North Africa

Imagine a monarch claiming an entire country for himself, not his country, but himself. This was such the case of King Leopold II of Belgium, which started the European Scramble for Africa. The European powers would go on to dominate the continent for years to come, and leave debilitating effects on the continent that still last to today. The time before 1884, European powers colonized only 10% of the African continent. However, this all changed after King Leopold II of Belgium annexed the Congo…

United States General George S. Patton and his career in Africa and Europe during World War II. While I initially chose this film because it was easily available on Netflix, I came to enjoy that it focused on the war in Northern Africa and Italy, which are often overlooked in modern cinema and other mediums. The film depicts General George S. Patton, a loud mouth, no nonsense, and pugnacious general stuck in the middle of the fight in North Africa after a humiliating American defeat in the…

In 1884, Europe congregated and, in an imperialistic fashion, determined who received which section of Africa. In this meeting, called the Berlin Conference, Britain received the region that is currently known as Uganda. Beginning their colonization in 1890, the British East Africa Company sent Captain F.D. Lugard to sign a treaty with the leader of the largest kingdom in the region, Buganda. Following the treaty, Lugard grew Britain’s influence further by signing two more treaties with the…

” We all believe in the agonizing horror that has occurred in Africa since its colonization. After the colonization of Africa, Belgium had a tight, constricting hold on the Congo that negatively impacted them- and the rest Africa. Just when Africans thought that the tight hold on their continent was the worst to be faced, their resources were starting to be stolen by America and Europe. A ‘White Man’s Burden’ has also affected Africa in both times of colonization and in present day. In a novel…

communication. Mesoamerica, West Africa, and Japan experienced benefits and drawbacks from cultural and economic isolation. Mesoamerica faced social and economic benefits and drawbacks from being isolated. Mesoamerica was a region in the Americas, extending from central Mexico to northern Costa Rica. Because it was on the America’s, Mesoamerica couldn’t benefit from Eurasia’s trade and communications. The Mayans of the Yucatan peninsula lived with oceans on their east, north, and west sides,…

Trans-Saharan slave trades were key players in the African Diaspora. Trans-Atlantic slave trade brought Western Africans across the Western hemisphere, while the Trans-Saharan slave trade moved Africans across the Sahara Desert to sub-Saharan locations within Africa. As a result, Africans were dispersed among locations where there was a need to grow settlements and maintain profitable agricultural practices. Shortly thereafter,…

for this theory was that Africa and South America fitted together like it was a jigsaw puzzle. The next piece of evidence was that in South America and Africa there are fossils found in rocks of the same age and type. Additionally, in those two landmasses, there are corresponding early mammal fossils found. Again, there are identical reptile fossils in Africa and South America. One example of a reptile is Mesosaurus. This reptile was found in both Brazil and South Africa. Coincidentally,…

The West African culture and daily life was abundant in the medieval period. The families portrayed their role in the West African society. Trading invested between North and West Africa. Oral history was based on stories that characterized the role of the griots. As a result, the West African culture and daily life was abundant during the medieval period. The families portrayed their role in the West African society. People worked on labor specialization or specific types…

world would look like if humans never existed. In most places, there is a very large shortage in mammal diversity relative to what it would naturally have been. The current world map of mammal diversity shows that Africa is the only place with a high diversity of large mammals. Africa has the most large mammals because it's one of the places that is less developed and human activities have…

United States shortly before the 1700’s and 1800’s were a large forced migration. The United States had stop all imports of enslaved Africans in 1807. But between those times it was easily over six hundred thousand people who was bought to North American from Africa or indirectly through the Caribbean. Two hundred thousand of these slaves were bought between 1776 and 1807. The other four hundred thousand slaves that reach America between 1675 and 1775 that endured the Atlantic crossing were…