Botswana: Botswana, or Bechuanaland, received its name from its major ethnic group the Tswana. The Tswana came to this flat region by 1800. They took over making the San (the tribe that lived there) leave. In 1885 the British came and took over Bechuanaland, as it was then called, under protection...
AFRICA ART Since the beginning Africa Art has played in integral part in American history. There are a variety of Africa art. Such variety includes rock art, images, wood sculptures, pottery masks and paintings to name a few. Africa contributed largely to one of the world's greatest civiliz...
In 1859, Charles Darwin published his famous research, "The Origin of Species".1 His findings brought rise to the theory of evolution, inferring that humans came from lower forms of life. It is safe to say that if this is true, the organism that which humans rose from would share some traits with hu...
When he first took over the empire, he ruled over 350 warriors and 1,500 people, however by the time of his death, he led over 50,000 trained warriors, 250,000 citizens, and claimed two million square miles of territory for his people, making his kingdom perhaps the most powerful African empire since Ancient Egypt. ...
British Imperialism And the Boer War European politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries endured controversy and problem over the ideas of imperialism and nationalism. Changes in Europe politically, intellectually, economically, and socially, radically conditioned new response to the issues of imperialism, nationalism, and war. Britain, at its imperial zenith, faced a war that sprung from both ideologies of imperialism and nationalism. The Boer War (1899-1902) would change imperialistic relations between England her colonies, and open their eyes to the country's m...
