... English as their "mother-tongue". The most common languages in South Africa are Xhosa, Tswana, Zulu, and Swahili (African Languages). Zulu is one of nine Bantu languages spoken in East Southern Africa. Approximately 8.8 million people speak this language (African Languages). Swahili is spoken as a mother language vast along the coast of East Africa. It is the national language of Tanzania and the official language ... of Kenya (African Languages). It is also the official in German East Africa (Reader 265). Approximately 50 million people speak this language (African Languages). Art is v...

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... in different languages and sent paintings to China. It is easy to see that they were literate and had a passion for arts, proving they had their own culture. Traders in East Africa had good trade relations with other cities. They traded peacefully and interacted with diverse kinds of people while they traded. In Kilwa was one of the most beautiful and well ... constructed towns with structures that resemble a modern city today such as mansions, public fountains, police force, mosques, arched walkways, and town squares. Zimbabwe was a city located in South Africa that characterizes a cit...

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... the earliest times masks have played an important role in the culture of Africa. Masks have varied in appearance and function. Many masks are associated with religious ceremonies, myth, dance, rituals or are concerned with spirits of the dead, rites, or even curing sickness. ... man can deceive the viewer. Masks representing harmful spirits were often used to keep a required balance of power. This type of mask was often associated with secret societies, especially in Africa, which has the greatest variety of masks on Earth. In ancient Egypt priests used masks to represent gods. Masks w...

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... mass movements to achieve better lives for the people of their countries. Before Mohandas Gandhi, India was controlled by the British, more specifically the British East India Company. Prior to the British government ruling India, the British East India Company controlled it, using both Muslims and Hindus for war purposes. These soldiers rebelled in the Sepoy Mutiny, when the company did not ... required a lot of passes. Not having these passes meant arrest or more, and where someone could live and work was determined by their race. This system was everywhere in South Africa. As a young...

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... Sundiata, now king of the vast region that was to become the Mali Empire. Under Sundiata and his immediate successors, Mali expanded rapidly west to the Atlantic Ocean, south deep into the forest, east beyond the Niger River, and north to the salt and copper mines of the Sahara. The city of Niani may have been the capital. At its height, Mali ... city, Mecca, the city on the Arabian Peninsula where the faith was started. It was under Mansa Musa that Timbuctu became one of the major cultural centers not only in Africa but the entire world. This was no ordinary hajj. It involved a retinue...

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... Ocean could fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. Living animals in widely separated lands are similar. Fossil plants and animals in India, South Africa, Australia, Antarctica and South America are similar to each other and different from plants and animals found in other parts of the world at the same time. ... There are numerous geological similarities between eastern South America and western Africa. Paleomagnetism tells us how far from the poles rocks were when they formed, by looking at the angle of their magnetic field. ... contradictions can only be explained if we assume the contin...

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... this happened mainly because European countries wanted to add more land to their empire for the fame. The two major countries that were colonizing Africa were Britain and France. Britain started from north and south, while France started from east and west. Both countries had the ambition of ruling the whole continent, but in 1898 they met each other in Fashoda. France backed ... off and Britain continues, but she never completed her dream of conquering Africa from "the Cape of Good Hope to Cairo"- Rhodes, because Germany and Belgium ... had already occupied parts of central Africa. Af...

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... by cheap black labor and plentiful natural resources; as the advertising jingle had it: " they go together in the good old RSA: braaivleis; rugby; sunny skies and Chevrolet". Even as south Africa began to succumb to inevitable changes in the 80's, most whites simply enjoyed the good fortune, a handful where drawn into opposition to the regime; through different routes and with varying ... goriest scenes in south Africa's history. The majority of their photographs where taken at political rallies; police raids; skirmishes between warring tribes and any other politically or racially motiv...

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... Exploration, was first started by the Portuguese. They began a huge race to build a commercial empire by exploring the coast of West Africa. They established trade in that of gold and slaves. Other trade items encouraged the exploration of more places. In the North Atlantic, ... enormous trade in fish encouraged the European nations to search for farther fishing grounds. Meanwhile, merchants were trading around the south tip of Africa to the East to get spices needed to preserve thier meats. The merchants could avoid expensive taxes from the rullers of every country between ... this, Eu...

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... agreed to end it after a few years. In 1817, Spain signed a treaty agreeing to immediately end the slave trade north of the equator and south of the equator in 1820. Despite agreements and legislation, some slave trading still continued. The Slave Trade and Islam The Quran describes a humanitarian approach to ... was remarked upon by western travelers in North Africa and Egypt. Black Africans were transported to the Islamic empire across the Sahara to Morocco and Tunisia from West Africa, from Chad to Libya, along the Nile from East Africa, and up the coast of East Africa to the Persian...

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The term Middle East refers to South Western Asia and North Eastern Africa The Middle east has many very interesting features and aspects about it such as the way there economy is organized, the type of religion that they practice, the various geographical aspects of the land, and the way that society is in general. The economy of the Middle East is somewhat similar to the ... economy of India. The Middle East mainly imports ... ever experienced in the United States. Temperatures in the Middle East seem to be very extreme and unbearable to what we are used to. In the summer temperatures ofte...

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... into the tree-dwelling apes and the ground-dwelling types known as hominids ("prehumans"). The remains of Australopithecines, the earliest known hominids, were discovered in South Africa in 1924. Australopithecines had an erect posture but an apelike brain. Various sites in East Africa have produced a remarkable collection of Australopithecines fossils that can be dated back 3.9 million years. Because they are the oldest hominid fossils ... , Africa is called "the cradle of mankind." In 1974 an expedition led by Donald Johanson found a female skeleton. This skeleton was named Lucy. Lucy ...

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... The tassel contains the last tailbones fused together. The teeth of this magnificent beast are extremely sharp and adapted to kill its prey (Lions of Africa). The whiskers are used to sense their surroundings in the dark and they use their rough tongue to clean themselves and drink water from pools and ... puddles. The African Lion lives in groups called pride and used to live all throughout Africa but now they are only found in the south Sahara desert and the east and south parts of Africa (Defenders of Wildlife). These lions are mostly found in the dry areas like the savanna grasslands...

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... in lands where ancient civilizations and states existed like India, Malaya, Indonesia, and the Inca lands of South America. The emigration of European settlers to the Western Hemisphere and Africa was known as colonization. As the Europeans came so did their attitude of assumed superiority. The Europeans ... over control without large-scale settlements. From the 15th to the 17th cent, the Portuguese and the Dutch built "trading empires" in Africa and the East for the exploitation of the resources. Then Spanish and Portuguese established important colonies in the New World hoping to explo...

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... the seeds they eat. Hot deserts can be found in the southwest of the United States, along the coast of South America, in northern Africa, and in the Middle East. There are cold deserts to the west of the Rocky Mountains, in eastern Argentina and throughout central Asia. They are ... seeds, as well as lizards and snakes. Chapparal is found in the Mediterranean region, as well as along the coastlines of California, Chile, southwestern Africa, and southwestern Australia. Mild rainy winters and long, hot, dry summers. Savanna Plant life is composed of low growing grasses with scattered decid...

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... holiday in Uganda is Independence Day, which is on October 9th. James Makubuya was born and brought up in the culture of the Baganda, Buganda Kingdom. In the south central region of the East African nation of Uganda. He has a Master of Music degree in Western Music, a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology and currently an Associate Professor of Music, Department of Music, Wabash College ... many different types of instruments, and he is an accomplished dancer and choreographer. He has studied with several master musicians from various East African musical traditions. James has traveled to various am...

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... cultures living in every area of the world. Research shows that we can all be traced back to share a common ancestry with one female who lived in Africa around 150,000 years ago. Modern science found that we all share mitochondrial DNA with this "genetic Eve." Mitochondrial DNA is passed on by the female; ... therefore our genetic lines can be traced back to this Eve. Eve lived in Africa some 150,000 years ago. Times became hard and the people were forced to move to the coast along the Red Sea. Here they lived off the ... Some went the opposite way from the Middle East and headed to the...

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... factors combined, Lucy became known as one of the most remarkable finds of science. Australopithecus afarensis lived from approximately 4 to 2.7 million years ago along the northern Rift valley of east Africa, and perhaps even earlier. Fragments of more than 300 individuals of Australopithecus afarensis have been discovered so far, including the remarkably complete skeleton of an adult female, "Lucy" She ... human intelligence. "Lucy" was the earliest Hominid species discovered until 1994. At that time, remains of another species, tentatively called Australopithecus anamensis, was disco...

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... is in the northeast corner of Africa and is 1,001,450 sq km. The land is divided up into Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt. These names come from where the Nile River is flowing. Land that is downstream or to the north is Lower Egypt and land that is downstream of the Nile or to the south is called Upper Egypt. The ... protected on all sides by natural barriers. The Mediterranean Sea is in the north, the Sahara desert is in the west, the Sudd swamp is in the south, and the Red Sea protects the east. Also the only two ways to get into Egypt by land are the Gaza strip in the northeast and El-Al...

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... learning about that particular region of the world. For instance, South East Asia. I am fascinated with how the authors exemplified the social systems and historical impact of exchange networks that developed between 300 B.C.E. and 1100 C.E in Europe, Asia and Africa. According to the importance of the matter, unequivocally feel that ... the two civilizations of China and Rome. This trade route underwent periods or intense exploitations, where is very relevant to my topic in South East Asia. The Silk Road was an important element in the history of "Asian Trade". The authors described thi...

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... learning about that particular region of the world. For instance, South East Asia. I am fascinated with how the authors exemplified the social systems and historical impact of exchange networks that developed between 300 B.C.E. and 1100 C.E in Europe, Asia and Africa. According to the importance of the matter, unequivocally feel that ... the two civilizations of China and Rome. This trade route underwent periods or intense exploitations, where is very relevant to my topic in South East Asia. The Silk Road was an important element in the history of "Asian Trade". The authors described thi...

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... and political and economic discrimination against non-European groups in the Republic of South Africa, is and how it is still affecting the people of South Africa even today. Chapter two is mostly about Africa and its affects with the Cold War. He begins with the colonization of Africa and then goes into Africa's many economic problems and walks us through the decolonization. He discusses the politics ... of Africa and the alliances that are being made. One alliance in particular he brings ... after reading it I had a broader and better idea about this war. In chapter four he begins wi...

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... . Last major turning point of modern world history has to do with WWII. World War II led to the desire of independence along with freedom. Take North Africa for instance, they desired independence back for middle east Africa from Germany. In order to get it back allied generals would have to step in and attack. Luckily Dwight D Eisenhiwer agreed to help out. North ... Africa got Middle East Africa reclaimed back. However we can't forget the Jewish. They desired freedom and Independence. After creating the nazi party Hitler for control he suppressed civil rights ruthlessly and murdered mi...

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... find the Christian, Prester John, who was the king of Ethiopia. Although the King of Portugal had sent explorers on land, Dias was assigned to the exploration around Africa's southern tip (Cape of Good Hope) to see if there really was a way to go around. Kudos to Dias for not throwing a fit about being ... . January 1488, upon leaving the supply ship ashore, Dias heads into a storm which blew the ships away from the coast. Yet still around the tip of South Africa. Without knowing it at the time, Bartolomeu Dias had made it around the Cape of Good Hope, the exploration complete. Because D...

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... , that friendship corrupted really quickly because of the demand of sex and gold. The route was long and difficult and he comes across many hostile armies. Sailings across the south of West Africa and around the Cape of Good Hope, Columbus along with Portuguese explorers solve the problems against the hostile armies. Being the bright and intelligent man Columbus is he had ... idea to sail across the west of the Atlantic Ocean and around the Africa. Columbus was known for his math and astronomy skills so he argued and argued that the Earth was much smaller than he believed it was. Putting...

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