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- 261: British Colonialism
- ... and politics. By the end of the 18th century the British Empire included Australia, Canada, Guinea, part of India, Senegal, Gambia, Sierra Leone, and Malaysia. One hundred years later Egypt, Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, and South Africa where added to the British Empire. The British took advantage of their colonies and became one of the strongest nations in the world. However the British trafficked on the natives. The natives hated their oppressors ... the guts to raise a riot, but if a European woman went through the bazaars alone somebody would probably spit betel juice over her dress. (Muller 77) The situation was even worse for countries in Africa. According to Barbara Ward, in many areas of Africa, the Europeans came, as they came to Asia, as traders and they stayed for many of the same reasons: the opening up of promising lines of export, the collapse of local authority under their ...
- 262: Hot Zone
- Hot Zone Imagine walking into a tiny village in Africa, suffering and dying from some unknown virus. As you approach the huts you hear the wails of pure agony from the afflicted tribe members. Coming closer, you smell the stench of vomit mixed with the ... one primate or another. Gene Johnson, the civilian virus hunter working for the army who specialized in Ebola, perhaps showed the most fear and total respect for its destructive capabilities and unpredictable nature. Having visited Africa, researching, studying, and actually staring the virus in the face, Gene knew the virus all to well. In the winter of 1989, the foreigner made its first appearance on the North American continent via an ... Dr. Joseph B. McCormick, chief of the Special Pathogens Branch of the C.D.C., who perhaps, in a sense, personifies the human race's attitudes toward nature. McCormick, like Gene Johnson, had been to Africa and treated patients suffering from Ebola in Sudan. He had spent days on end inside the blood-spattered huts, breathing the smell of warm blood, blood infested with Ebola viruses and was never, himself, ...
- 263: History of the World
- ... The changes brought about by agriculture took thousands of years to spread widely across the earth. By about 3500 B.C., civilization began. It started first in Southwest Asia. Three other early civilizations developed in Africa and in south and east Asia. All these early civilizations arose in river valleys, where fertile soil and a readily available water supply made agriculture easier than elsewhere. The valleys were (1) the Tigris- Euphrates ... four valleys, people in most other parts of the world were still following their old ways of life. Little cultural progress was being made in such regions as northern and central Europe, central and southern Africa, northern and southeastern Asia, and most of North America. In parts of Central and South America, the people were developing some new ways of life. But advanced civilizations did not appear there until hundreds of ... boundaries far beyond the Nile Valley. At its height in the 1400's B.C., Egypt ruled Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, and part of the Sudan. As a powerful state at the junction of Asia and Africa, Egypt played an important role in the growth of long-distance trade. Egyptian caravans carried goods throughout the vast desert regions surrounding the kingdom. Egyptian ships sailed to all the major ports of the ...
- 264: The Neandertals
- ... in Altamura, Italy and Vindija, Croatia. These are major sites for the European caves the Neandertals lived in. Although the Neandertals went to the southern tip of Italy, they never crossed the Mediterranean Sea to Africa. They migrated from central Europe to central Asia to the Middle East and always came back. Their main mode of moving around was on their feet, and they usually travelled in bands of no more ... Neandertals. All anthropologist know is that 35,000 years ago the Neandertals migrated one last time to the caves on the southern tip of Spain, and yet they never once tried to get over to Africa. Why not? I see them again, chipping at flints and gazing down at herds of elk and aurochs that grazed the rich grasslands below. Now, where their prey once wandered, the ships of many nations anchor. Beyond them, Africa looms through the haze, filling me with wanderlust and questions. (Rick Grey, pp. 35)
- 265: Amistad
- ... the process of cultural division (and eventual extinction) resulting from the middle passage , efforts to conquer the African people were worthless. Films like Amistad, and the few presentations and rhetoric that portray realistic viewpoints of Africa in the past and present, illustrate the physical, emotional, and spiritual strength of African people. They enable African Americans to be proud of their heritage, and eliminate the false pretenses set by many that African Americans have no connection to the motherland . Learning about Africa from coast to coast, and seeing the array of environments from the most primitive tribes, to the big cities and metropolitan areas annul many whites efforts to continue to enfeeble African Americans by portraying the entire continent as uncivilized . By attempting to continue to divide African Americans from their people in Africa, whites continue to conquer them, by controlling their minds.
- 266: Reform Movements Of The Nineteenth Century
- ... South. The movement to free black slaves accelerated in 1817 with the founding of the American Colonization Society. The goal of this society was to move the freed slaves from America to a colony in Africa. The group felt that this would end some of the hostilities between blacks and whites in America (Tindall and Shi 631). When the freed slaves were allowed to vote on the proposal, it was an astounding “no”. Even though the freed blacks felt that America was now their homeland, a land charter was organized and the first freed slaves arrived in West Africa in 1822. Eventually the colony gained their independence and formed a republic named Liberia. This new republic never gained a high status of popularity, with approximately 15,000 freed blacks migrating to Africa (Tindall and Shi 632). By the 1830s, the antislavery movement changed their strategy from gradualism, to abolitionism. Abolitionists were not only antislavery, but were morally against it (Moloney 11/17/97). In 1831, William ...
- 267: Socialism
- ... indigenous cultures. In India, for example, the largest socialist movement has partially adapted the pacifist teaching of Mahatma Gandhi, and distinct native brands of socialism exist in Japan, Burma (Myanmar), and Indonesia. Similarly, in black Africa native traditions were used in the adaptation of socialist, mainly Marxist, doctrines and political systems based on them. Noteworthy instances were the socialist system of Tanzania (decentralized under an internationally supported economic reform program of ... and Sekou TOURE of Guinea. Socialism in these theories is usually understood as a combination of Marxism, anticolonialism, and the updated tradition of communal landownership and tribal customs of decision making. Most of sub-Saharan Africa's socialist countries adopted free-market reforms in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Arab socialism likewise represents an effort to combine modern European socialist ideology with some Islamic principles. The BAATH PARTY in Iraq ... however, socialism has often been simply an ideology of anticolonialism and modernization. Overtly Marxist movements, aided by the USSR, China, or Cuba, nevertheless seized power in such African countries as Angola, Ethiopia, and Mozambique. South Africa's AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS (ANC) was also strongly influenced by Marxist ideas. THE NEW LEFT In the West in the 1960s a radical socialist movement, known as the New Left, arose principally out of ...
- 268: Dams And Resources
- ... on the water. About 20% of the world's recognized 8,000 freshwater species are threatened with extinction. The floodplain itself is also affected by dams. Studies on the floodplain of a river in South Africa has shown a reduction in diversity of forest species after it was dammed. And forests along Kenya's largest river appear to be slowly dying out because of the reduction in high floods due to ... been banned in the country of origin. At dam conferences, the talk these days always centers around finding "fresh markets" to exploit and new ways to sell dams to a skeptical public. The new South Africa has the opportunity to devise a water policy that builds on what the world has learned in the past fifty years of unchecked river development, and that involves civil society in the decision-making process. In the longterm, such an approach is the only one that doesn't diminish one of Africa's most treasured resources--its rivers.
- 269: Gold And Its Uses
- ... due to higher prices and new technology. Although gold is mined in almost sixty countries, the following are the major producers. George Harrison discovered gold on Langlaagte farm near Johannesburg in February 1886. Soon, South Africa was the world's premier producer, a position that it has held almost continuously ever since. In just over a century, more than 45,000 tonnes of gold have been mined in South Africa, about 40% of all gold ever produced. The gold was found in an arc of "reefs" stretching from 40 miles east of Johannesburg to 90 miles west, then swinging down to the Orange Free State ... five years to bring into production. The peak year for production was 1970 when output topped 1,000 tonnes. Since then it has fallen to around 550 tonnes (under 25% of world output), but South Africa is likely to remain the foremost producer into the next century. The California gold rush began in January 1848 after the discovery of gold in the tailrace of Sutter's Mill in Sacramento Valley. ...
- 270: The Influence of Black Slave Culture on Early America
- The Influence of Black Slave Culture on Early America The Black slaves of colonial America brought their own culture from Africa to the new land. Despite their persecution, the "slave culture" has contributed greatly to the development of America's own music, dance, art, and clothing. Music It is understandable that when Africans were torn from ... frowned upon religious imagery in the church as being worldly. Thus, there was little opportunity for the slave to express his creativity in graphic and plastic art for the church as he had done in Africa where religion and art were inseparable. Moreover, the slave was afforded few opportunities to carve on his own or his master's time." This repression of the slave's creativity doubtlessly impeded the development of ... Blacks were simply not heralded with interest. It was not until much later, after the slaves were freed, that Blacks would be respected as scientists. It may be that Africans had scientific methods native to Africa that they brought to the New World, but these were overlooked by supremacist slave-owners and gradually disappeared. Linguistics Of course, African slaves had their own language before they came to America. But what ...
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