they were deported mainly to Brazil (40 per cent of captives in the slave trade), to the Caribbean islands (60 per cent) and, to a lesser extent, to the United States. This system of human exploitation through violence and domination ...
The Ghana Empire, also referred to as Ghana, Ghanata, or Wagadou, was a historical empire situated in the western Sahel region during the classical to post-classical periods in what is now southeastern Mauritania and western Mali. Click for PDF and Googl
The population is almost exclusively African, as Ghana has no history of intensive European settlement. There is a small Lebanese community, whose members settled in the country as traders. Immigration from other African countries, notably Burkina Faso, Togo, Liberia, and Nigeria, is significant. ...
(Deborah is featured in our unit Women in the Ancient Near East)Nana Yaa Asantewaa"Her fights against British colonialists is a story woven throughout the history of Ghana... She led the Ashantis troops against the British. Yaa Asantewaa's war was the last of the major wars in Africa le...
Worldhistoryis an increasingly exciting subject for books. In a sign of the vitality of the field, it was a book of global history covering several millennia about the human history of the oceans—David Abulafia'sThe Boundless Sea—that won the UK's most prestigious prize, the Wolfson Histo...
World History & Global Studies DVDs #35107 Global Studies - The United Nations: Working for Us All (Run time 15 min.) DVD $49.95 Nearly everyone on the planet knows of the United Nations, but far fewer understand the important functions it performs in o
Here are 50 major events in the history of criminal justice: the stories range from Supreme Court decisions that shaped the law, to the capture (or killing) of most wanted criminals.
Last, before going into the construction method, we should discuss where, exactly, this is in the Alhambra. We’ve seen it called “the ceiling of the Portico of the Court of the Fish pond,”“the ceiling of the Sala de la Barca” and the “Hall of the Boat.” Are these the same...
About the 11th century AD , Yoruba city-states developed in western Nigeria, and some, such as Benin, became powerful kingdoms in later centuries. During medieval times, northern Nigeria had contact with the large kingdoms of the western Sudan (Ghana, Mali, and Songhai) and with countries of...
successful introduction of cacáo onto the African mainland: Gold Coast (Ghana)1880s–the Brownie, a cross between a cookie & a cake, can be traced back at least to an unnamed chef at the Palmer House Hotel in Chicago, IL who, at the request of the owners’s wife – a Mrs. Bertha ...