History of North Africa

West Africa By: West Africa is know for its rich trading empire, natural landmarks, for their beautifully designed cloth, and jewelry. To begin with, West Africa is known for its interesting land features, landforms, and its gradually changing climate. For example, Lake Chad is one of West Africa's well known features. Lake Chad is one of Africa's largest freshwater lake, and is know for its shrinking over time in

the beaches (ddaymuseum.co.uk). America provided enough men to make a heavy impact. Even with thousands of American deaths, it was less detrimental to them than it was to the Germans, who had a limited amount of manpower (History Net: Where History Comes Alive - World & US History Online). Without the Americans, the Allies would not have had enough power to break through German forces. The Battle of Normandy resulted in an Allied victory that boosted both country's spirits, resulting in more victories

In “A Painful Divide Facing an Impossible Task”, By Benjamin Hegeman, we are brought to a realization of how influential the Islamic presence has been in North Africa, now and in its past. It all began in 312 AD when Islam completely wipes out the Christians in North Africa. Doc. Hegeman shows us through his presentation that Islam became a predominate movement; not only through force, but also through economic enterprise and political moves. Due to the economic power of the Islam visitors, many

of West Africa, but little do they know African Americans were trading themselves way before then. Portuguese explorer Prince Henry, known as the navigator, was the first European to methodically explore Africa and the oceanic to the Indies.[1] Many Europeans thought that Africa 's history was not important. They argued that Africans were inferior to Europeans and they used this to help justify slavery. However, the reality was very different. A study of African history shows that Africa was by no

of the capitalist West, a vestige of Euro-American imperialism, Christianity is now rooted in the Third World, and the religion’s future lies in the global South”.[1] The distinctions of global North and global South describe the groupings of Europe, North American, and Japan (global North) and Asia, Africa, and Latin America (global South). [2] This ten chapter book can be divided into two major sections. In the first five chapters, Jenkins traces the historical

developed in isolation from the rest of the world.”(P. 4) Christopher Columbus and other European voyagers ended all this beginning in 1492 as they searched for treasure and attempted to spread Christianity. For the first time people from Europe, Africa, and the Americas were in regular contact. This 1492 event brought together three worlds politically, culturally and environmentally and led to what historians refer to as The Columbian Exchange which acted as a merging of European and American natives’

Africa is a place rich with diverse culture, languages and people, Western Africa in particular. Much of this area of African history however had been heavily impacted by Europe. Initially most Europeans came as traders, establishing trading posts and engaging in commerce with the native Africans, this began in the late 1400’s. With colonies being started in the New World with the intent of gaining resources, cheap labor was needed. This sparked the trade of slaves out of Africa to the Americas

The continent of Africa has many diverse groups filled with astonishing and heartbreaking historical records. To start off, the Maasai, the Tuareg and the Bambuti are three major cultural groups belonging to Africa. The Maasai and the Tuareg are nomadic pastoralists, and the Bambuti consist of four groups; the Sua, the Aka, the Efe, and the Mbuti. These four branches of the Bambuti are known to be quite short and stocky. It is also believed that humankind migrated from Africa to the rest of the world

nineteenth century by the end of the colonial period, nearly every fifth American had some type of ties to an African migrant slave. Nonetheless, the introduction of slavery into the United States was one of the major means of immigration for Africans into North America

The slave trade in the North American colonies began to grow in the 1600s. The African slave trade sourced their slaves from many different West African villages and countries. The business of slavery was a growing and profitable field, not only for the slavers, but also for the slaveholders. With the decrease of indentured servants, settlers in the English colonies looked for a new source of labor to satisfy their growing labor demands. The next source was Africa. “By the 1690s slaves outnumbered