Why was Marcus Garvey sent back to Jamaica in 1927? Why was Marcus Garvey sold for rice? What was the primary reason behind the colonization of Africa? Why did Europe colonize Africa during the New Imperialism?
"This is the environment where you were praised and where you fit in so you'll keep going, (but) that's not a great reason," she says. College professors sometimes encourage their top students to pursue graduate degrees. But students shouldn't assume that grad school would be a goo...
Why were slaves taken from Africa? Why was the transatlantic slave trade abolished? Why did the African slave trade begin? Why did Europeans enslave Africans? Why didn't they just bring farmers from their own countries instead? Why did slavery replace indentured servants?
Coupons were needed to buy milk and sugar, clothes and shoes. If you didn’t have any, you had to turn to barter. ‘I can get by without paraffin if you can give me your coupons for knitting wool.’ Black markets, black-out curtains and ersatz coffee were the order of the day. Ai...
in part because Secretary of State Warren Christopher failed to sell that idea to the Europeans. Unable to negotiate an end to the war, Europe did not want to “pour fuel on the fire next door.”12 No single vital or strategic interest took the United States to war in the Balkans. ...
Lavandulaspp., better known to most as simply lavender, is one of the best purple blooming plants for attracting bees. The flower is native to the mint family and originates from Europe, Asia, the Mediterranean, and Africa. The flowers bloom in the summertime and have a strong and delightfu...
As for the mysterious "Indo Europeans" I think it's important to understand that IE is a language model and does not necessarily correlate to "race" or even entirely to "culture". The correlation between language and genetics is obviously not very strong in the case of Indo-European; just...
Kingdom of Ouidah (Whydah) 1580–1728 CE southern modern Republic of Benin Fon and Aja peoples major slave trading area; enslaved Africans were housed prior to transport to the Americas and forced to make reverse circumambulation around the Tree of Forgetfulness to lose their memories of Africa...
The name Haiti means "Land of High Mountains", and it was inhabited by the Taino branch of the Arawak people when the Europeans arrived just over 500 years ago. The indigenous population was forced by the Spanish to work in the gold mines and many died through their lack of … Read...
a global impact,” McGovern says. “Europeans had a long period of famine”—like Scotland’s infamous “seven ill years” in the 1690s, but worse. “The onset was somewhere just after 1300 and continued into the 1320s, 1340s. It was pretty grim. A lot of people starving to death....