1. Africa Art
Between 500 and 800 A.D. they shifted to a sea-based trading economy and began to migrate south by ship. ... However, the scramble for Africa of the late 19th century, during which the European powers divided East Africa among themselves, the hegemony of the sultan in Zanzibar gave way to European overrule. ... When European settlers discovered ruins of great civilizations at Mapungubwe in South Africa and Great Zimbabwe in Zimbabwe (then the British colony Rhodesia), they concluded that black Africans could not have built these marvelous stone cities. ... In fact, until the recent end of the ...
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