French West Africa

This documentary covers the most important events that happened in the century following the Columbian American exchange. Significant issues are addressed; Native american slavery, and exploitation of people for resources, such as the ”8 million slaves died working in silver mines.” After the new world was founded in 1493 by Christopher Columbus, the “two worlds” collided in a massive exchange of ideas, diseases, agriculture, animals, beliefs, and traditions. It really was like discovering an…

third-world countries such as Africa, where people die from drinking infected water or from disease outbreaks. Outside of the glass bubble are human beings, sick from treatable diseases, who need help. Help that I plan to provide. Malaria, a disease carried by infected mosquitos, cause the death of one African child every thirty seconds. This disease has taken a large toll on third-world countries, but is hardly seen within our glass bubble. While 90% of premature deaths in Africa are due to…

struggling in their own country, the ones that are barely making it day by day. Like most people from Mexico and Africa. The people from those countries have to work hard everyday to keep their families alive. In Africa, so many people starve to death and are being killed by Al Shabaab. This makes them want to leave their country and move somewhere else. I recently interviewed a young girl from Africa, and the most valuable takeaway for me was that it’s incredible to see her so happy here in…

or it will rot. This plant was first discovered in New Guinea, then was grown in Asia. It was not traded widely until around 1317 where the Europeans first tasted it, and became obsessed, starting the sugar trade between South America, Europe, and Africa. Many factors drove the sugar trade, including African slave labor, European capital and Europeans demand for sugar. Humans are naturally greedy for foods that taste good, and the Europeans exploited that greed to make money for themselves…

There is a African girl that watches her village being killed and captured.Her name is Amari. One day she was playing around with her brother but that night she watched her whole family be killed. She was so shocked she couldn’t move she just sat there. She ended up getting captured. She was put on a boat and sold into slavery. She found another slave who helped her way to being able to escape. Through this book Copper Sun, by Sharon Draper it is very emotional and historically driven. Its shows…

To what extent was colonialism to blame for issues in congo today. Congo was colonized by Leopold & the Belgian Government in 1885. Leopold colonized Congo because he wanted their natural resources so then they can stay protected and not be surpassed by other countries. His motives to do this was mostly for self-benefits so then he could be whether and more powerful. He was able to do this by tricking and deceiving people by promising protection through a language barrier they made them…

Medieval African Art Rock paintings from medieval Africa are one of the oldest types of art in the world. Art in medieval Africa came in many forms such as paintings, masks, statues and textiles. Africans made many traditions with their art and influenced many cultures, including their own. These different types of art were used in many religious practices and many are still used today. Cave paintings are Africa’s earliest form of art, thought to be over 27,000 years old. They show many aspects…

through colonialism, the process began during the 19th century when the rural population of Southern Europe grew faster than its resources creating a wide-scale impoverishment, workers and artisans moved to Algeria by the lure of employment and then the French army landed in Algeria in 1930 after 3 centuries of being an Ottoman state. Secondly, European imperialism occurred in…

Africa is the supposed birthplace of the human race. It is here that the Australopithecines, a group of hominins including Australopithecus and Paranthropus, lived from 4.2 to 1.2 million years ago. In the same area but from 1.9 to 0.027 million years ago, Homo ergaster also roamed around. Even though they shared the same geographic location, they each represent very different phases of the evolution to what we are today. It would therefore be interesting to see how they differed, based on the…

Question 3: African Art The African art has several similarities with European art. For instance, due to the influence of Islam and Christianity, most of their art have religious or political purposes. However, wood is the material of their choice. They also used other natural materials, which unfortunately did not survive the pass of time. Moreover, only in special circumstances pottery was created to embellish the houses of their rulers and noble men. For them, pottery was simplistic,…