Saturday, 1 October 2016

A Chunk of History Before Age of Exploration

Stone age

·         Agriculture revolution (Neolithic revolution) >>cities>philosophy (12,000 years ago)
·         Egypt (fertile casent)>Palestine>Syria>Iraq>>>>>>>>>rivers fertile land
·         Man learnt →agriculture, pottery, home (muddy), use of some animals,
·         Use of DARANTI made of stone →made of iron
·         Kalahari →stone
Syria city: Aleppo 9400 BC probably first city
 First temples → people start living around
Jericho (a place in Palestine) 1100 years ago (almost 8000 BC)
Bible and Dura has also described it
Where 2000-3000 people were lived that was called city at that time
  • Susa 6000BC (250 East of Tigris River in Iran)
  • Egypt 5000-6000BC > Firons
  • Harappa and Manjodaro 5000-6000BC
  • Xia Dynasty, China 4000BC

 Bronze age 6000BC

Bronze → cupper +Tin =>bronze more strong →more productive instruments=>surplus food/product and good weapons→
( Assyians soldiers of Mesopotamian era 2500-605BC)
·         Gradual old tribes ruling→ upper ruling class formation →state →king system (Tutankhamen Egyptian Pharaoh 1332-1323BCE)
·         Man dominated over women due to his surplus product weapons etc.
·         Attacking on other tribes and made them ‘’Slave’’  System of Slavery


Iron Age 300 BCE

→Nigeria was first where Iron used to make instruments, tools
→iron+ carbon=>steel more strong than bronze
→plough=>steel depth plan=> more agriculture
→writing discovered alphabets                    
(Writing bogan in 3200BCE) etc
·         Literature=> first history started


Ascent of Ampire

Slavery system=>
·         Rich ruler
↕ Political conflict
·         Demagogue (Old tribe) →Greek term  demos
→include (demos) those heroes who were not slave and didn’t have slave.
(However today demos meaning is different)
·          Other more wise group group (less money) named oliga or bruka….. oligarchy; Oligos means  ‘few’’ & Arkho ‘’To rule’’
·         Aristocracy pariander, Tyrant of Corinth (625-587BCE)
Tyrant meaning at that time a person who takes money from rich ruler to
 Slave

He was a Aristocratic

Philosophy starts from Miletus (Ancient Greek wealthiest city near Anatolia dating back to 3500BCE. 

Friday, 30 September 2016

Dutch Colonization

Dutch Empire
17th century to the 1950s
→ new discovery in
Arctic Sea, North America, Pacific, Australia, and New Zealand.
→lost its colonies   French Revolutionary Wars (1792 until 1802)
→remaining portion remained under control till Second World War
→1950-Kingdom of Netherlands
→2010-it consist of Aruba, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten.

Monday, 26 September 2016

French Colonialism

French 1st colonial empire→1500-1814
→  (1600onward) colonies in North America, the Caribbean, and India
→ (1700 onwards) wars with Britain
→(starting 1800 ) lost its coloniesFrench 2nd colonial empire→1830-1960
→   (1850 onwards) Africa, Indochina, South Pacific
→1920 one of the  largest empires in history.  11,500,000 km2  in 1920,
→with a population of 110 million people in 1939
→1945 anti-colonial movements began
→ Wars in Vietnam (1955) and Algeria (1962)
→Hence its colonization ends

Sunday, 25 September 2016

First Over the Sea Lands Discovery



The age of exploration is the years in which world e.g America being explored to European colonists. In the age of exploration one of the most important personalities was  Christopher Columbus. Lets try have a visit of age of exploration in few posts step by step.   
Christopher Columbus

→1492 Moors were expelled  
                                                             
→Aug 1492 set off 3 ships
→12 Oct landed on Caribean he called this place Sansalva
then  went to Cuba and Hispaniola 
→sailed back Home
→Many voyages
→Realized he had not discovered East
 Indies


America is named after 
Amerigo Vespocci,an
 Italian explorer who
described as  ‘’Mundus
 Norus’’
  
a member of a NW African Muslim
 people of mixed Berber and Arab
descent. In the 8th century they
conquered the Iberian peninsula,
 but were finally driven out of their last stronghold in Granada at the end of the 15th century.                                  

Discovery of India

The age of exploration is the years in which world e.g America being explored to European colonists. In the age of exploration one of the most important personalities was Vasco da Gama. Lets try have a visit of age of exploration in few posts step by step. 
Vasco da Gama
→Born on 1460 at Sines
→Exploration of India all water rout
→July 1497 set off from Lisbon (Lisbon is Portugal’s hilly, coastal capital city)
→Took rout of South Atlantic
→ May,1498 reached India
→9 Sep. 1498 back to Lisbon
→55/170 survived
→Two voyages to India

→He opened the rout from Western Europe to East 

Ferdinand Magellan Death

The age of exploration is years in which world e.g America being explored to Europe colonists. In the age of exploration one of the most important personalities was  Ferdinand Magellan. Lets try to have a visit of age of exploration in few posts step by step   
Ferdinand Magellan

→1515 struggled for a position in Navy                                                                                                            
→At  37years another service
→1518 Magellan agreement with Charles V and permission to travel
 →1519- set off
→March 1521 arrived at Guam(Guam is a U.S. island territory in Micronesia, in the Western Pacific)
Philippines…
→Magellan was killed while trying to snatch one of the island for Spain
→Surviving men on two ship
→Sep 15,1522 one ship Victoria arrived back home
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