Why did the Kingdom of Kush decline? Why did the Kingdom of Kush prosper? Why was Sumer more easily invaded than Egypt? Why did King Louis IX try to conquer Egypt? Why did Egypt lose the Six-Day War? Why did Israel attack Egypt in the Suez Crisis?
Why did the Kingdom of Nubia prosper? Why was Timbuktu important? Why did all Incan roads lead through Cuzco? Why did Ibn Battuta travel to India? Why did Hadrian abandon Mesopotamia? Why is Ihasa called the Forbidden City? Why did Mansa Musa travel to Mecca?
In 1750 BCE, the kingdom of Elam went around the wall, sacked Ur, and took the reigning king as a prisoner. Ur also had a possible link to the biblical figure of Abraham. In the Book of Genesis, it is mentioned that Abraham was born in the city or Ur Kasdim. Many believe that...
In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries Portugal was at the forefront of European overseas seafaring exploration. Their expansion into the Atlantic began with the discovery of the Canary Islands in 1341 off the west coast of Africa.[i]As early as 1317, King Denis of Portugal made ...
Why was the Zulu War fought? What was the purpose of the Scramble for Africa? Why did the Nubians form the Kingdom of Kush? Why was Timbuktu an important location in the Mali Empire? Why did the Kingdom of Zimbabwe decline? Why did Abyssinia become Ethiopia? Why did Egypt conquer Nubia...
Why were the Hittites important? Why did the Incan Empire spread out? Why was Mansa Musa important? Why was Thebes important to Ancient Egypt? Why did the Benin Empire fall? Why is the spread of the Mongol Empire important? Why was the Kingdom of Kongo important? Why was the Mita syste...
Why did the Bantu migrate to South Africa? Why is the beginning of the Scramble for Africa important? Why did Mansa Musa go on the Hajj? Why was the Zulu Kingdom established? Why did the slave trade decline in Kongo? Why did W.E.B. Du Bois criticize Marcus Garvey?
Why is the Fall of Constantinople important to historians? Why was the Kushan Empire important? Why are Aztec codices important to historians? Why is Kipchak Khanate important to studying the past? Why was the Kingdom of Aksum important? Why did the Ottoman Empire not engage in industrializatio...
Why was the Mali Empire important? Why did the French invasion of Egypt fail? Why was the Kingdom of Kongo important? Why is Morocco not a member of African Union? Why did Nubia and Egypt become rivals? Why did Italy colonize Eritrea? Why did Spain engage in imperialism? Why did the ...
Why did the Boers and British fight over Southern Africa? Why did Britain get Kenya in the Berlin Conference? Why was Nelson Mandela expelled from college? Why did the Kingdom of Zimbabwe decline? What was the primary reason behind the colonization of Africa? Why was Malcolm X important? Why...