Southern Africa

paragraph, many of the slaves were spread across the Americas. Slaves became the main source of income for many slave-owners. A lot of people have not realized that the United States received the least amount of the slave population that arrived from Africa. Slavery in the United States was a very controversial and prominent issue. African Americans were considered to be the inferior race. Due to this assumption, early white Europeans believed that African Americans must be enslaved in order to…

and began supplying captives for slave markets outside of Africa. Debt slavery, enslavement of war captives, military slavery, and criminal slavery were all practiced in various parts of Africa. In most African societies where slavery was prevalent, the enslaved people were not treated as chattel slaves and were given certain rights in a system similar to indentured servitude elsewhere in the world. citation neededSlavery in historical Africa was practiced in many different forms and some of…

Africa is the 3rd bigger continent in the World. This continent has an enormous variety of cultures blended inside of each nation. The African culture is defined as an Africans identity composed of habits, costumes, and traditions inherited from their ancestors. This inheritance is transmitted from generation to generation. The African culture is defined by several aspects including the Gastronomy, art, and language. Firstly, the African culture is characterized the African culture is the…

Recurring Nightmare Famine has been a problem of Africa for as long as anybody can remember. These past years have been especially bad because of the El Niño weather occurrence. Because of the temperatures being warmer than usually, there has been a real lack of rain which resulted into unforgivably drought. The drought made it so that the harvests in Africa either failed or yielded tiny amounts of food. Famine is occurring almost everywhere in Africa. Just take Ethiopia and South Sudan for…

The continent of Africa is the world 's second largest continent after Asia, with a total surface area, including several surrounding islands of 30,313,000 square kilometres. As people known that Africa is one of the poorest country in the world. Especially in the South, 54% of people are living below the poverty line which is the measuring to separate who are poor or not poor. Only 46% of people are living above the poverty line. According to the State SA figures, there are actually three…

Germans believed Morocco should fall to them and demanded that France turn over territory in the French Congo to Germany in return for Morocco. However, Britain backed France and Germany only received a small strip of French territory in Africa. With all the land in Africa divided, the British and Dutch occupying most of Asia, the British Empire controlling most of the Pacific and North America and Spanish and Portuguese settlements in South America, the most efficient way to extend their empire…

of Jamestown until the beginning of the Revolutionary War, different regions of the eastern coast had different characteristics. Once established, the thirteen British colonies could be divided into three geographic areas: New England, Middle, and Southern. Each of these had specific economic, social, and political developments that were unique to the regions. New England Colonies: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode, and Connecticut. These were known for being rich in forests and fur trapping.…

teachers in Africa warned villagers about their “lax” sexual ways and sinful tendencies. In addition, European imperial powers prompted different naming cultures. There was a major attempt to shorten and change African names to those of a Christian background. Before colonization, personal names were part of the collective uniqueness of each ethnic group. Europe’s Christian influence destroyed this. Also, African women were forced to merge their identities with those of their husbands. In…

The Australopithecus afarnesis’ set foot to this earth three to four million years ago. The Australopithecus afarensis originated in Eastern Africa, and they were part human, but mostly ape. The archeologists Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discovered the first of the early man’s kind accidentally. When they were when back to their van after a dig in the surrounding area, they found bones on the ground. After further investigation, they discovered that these bones were of Lucy, the first early man…

Homo ergaster, meaning ‘workman’, lived in eastern and southern Africa around 1.5 million years ago. The ergaster had a good run for about 500,000 years, until vanishing from fossil records 1.3 million years ago. Homo ergaster was discovered in 1949 somewhere in southern Africa by prominent South African hominin paleontologist, John T. Robinson. Researchers have argued back and forth on the the idea that Home ergaster is a valid taxon due to the similarities between ergaster and erectus. Some…