African KingdomsReports on the history of kingdoms in Africa, before the continents colonization by Europeans.Hanson-Harding, AlexandraJunior Scholastic
Eventually, European colonization and influence would rob many African nations of their independence and individuality, but pre-colonial Africa was home to a number of large, powerful monarchies. The kingdoms in Mali, Ghana, Egypt, and Ethiopia, among others, ruled over hundreds of thousands of pe...
In the forested regions of the West African coast, independent kingdoms grew up with little influence from the Muslim north. The Kingdom of Nri of the Igbo was established around the 9th century and was one of the first. It is also one of the oldest Kingdom in modern day Nigeria and wa...
and colonization. driven by profit seeking and labor intensive ventures such as plantations and mines, europeans transformed the atlantic ocean from a barrier into a highway for transporting goods, settlers, indentured servants, and enslaved laborers. plantation agriculture and cash crop trading played ...
Royal leaders in many African kingdoms lived in the lap of luxury and their opulent municipalities reflected their lifestyle. Winwood Reade, a British explorer noted on his visit to the Ashanti Royal Palace of Kumasi in 1874: Boyrereau Brinch, an African slave that was kidnapped from his fathe...
Oduduwa was the first ruler of the kingdom and the father of all Yoruba. Over time he crowned his 16 sons and grandsons and sent them off to establish their own great Yoruba kingdoms. As descendants of the sky god, these first Yoruba rulers and their direct descendants were divine kings....
The African continent has had many states and kingdoms. This is a short list of several modern states that are barely known. ByChris Orwaand Owaahh 7. The Gaza Empire For most of the 19thCentury, there was a powerful kingdom between southeastern Zimbabwe and southern Mozambique known as Gaz...
[9], Ionic and Roman-Byzantine classic cultures took control of strategic trade routes in Arabia, and the Sassinid Persians dominated southern Arabia around 575 AD. Influences from the African side were also present as Pharanoiac Egypt and the Sudanese Meroitic and Abyssinian Askumite kingdoms ...
她很清楚自己的王国状况有多不乐观 Aware of her kingdoms state of despair, 所以就跟因班加拉领袖卡萨结盟 she forges an alliance with the Imbangala leader Kasa, 跟敌人的敌人成为盟友 making the enemy of her enemy a brother in arms. (卡巴萨) 在她的家乡 卡巴萨却即将落入敌人手中 Back home, ...
Subsequently the kingdoms of Mali and Songhai superseded ancient Ghana, with Timbuktu and Gao on the Niger River becoming major centres of learning and commerce. Excavations have revealed that these towns were large, prosperous, and well constructed. Muslim builders introduced a new type of dwelling...