Key events in African history: a reference guide
Provides information on thirty-six key events from the prehistoric past to the dawn of the twenty-first century which have shaped the history of Africa.
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- Full title :Key events in African history : a reference guide / Toyin Falola.
Summary
Provides information on thirty-six key events from the prehistoric past to the dawn of the twenty-first century which have shaped the history of Africa.
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- Publication Date:2002.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Greenwood Press
- Place of Publication:Westport, Conn
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2002.
Notes
"An Oryx book."
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xxiii, 347 p.) : : ill., maps
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0313313237, 9780313313233, 0313006687, 9780313006685
- oclc:ocn928430125
- LC Classification:DT20
- Dewey Decimal:960
Table of Contents
Timeline of historical events -- The prehistoric past: the evolution of homo sapiens sapiens, 40,000 B.C. -- The agricultural revolution, 5000 B.C.+ -- The civilization of ancient Egypt, 3100 B.C.+ -- The iron age and the spread of Bantu speakers, 730 B.C.+ -- The rise of Kush and Aksum, 730 B.C.+ -- The Greeks and Romans in North Africa, 332 B.C.+ -- Ethiopia: the emergence of a Christian kingdom, 1250 A.D.+ -- The spread of Islam, 622 A.D. onward -- Kingdoms of West Africa: Ghana, Mali, and Songhay, A.D. 1000-1600 -- The rise of the Swahili city-states of East Africa, tenth-fourteenth century A.D. -- The Atlantic slave trade, 1440-1870 -- The organization of societies, fifteenth century A.D. onward -- The outbreak of Islamic jihad, 1804 -- Wars and revolution among the Yoruba, 1817-93 -- The spread of Christianity, 1804 onward -- The rise of Muhammad Ali of Egypt, 1811-47 -- The Mfecane: Shaka and the Zulu kingdom, 1816-40 -- European conquest and African response, 1885-1900 -- The colonial experience, 1900-39 -- The entrenchment of Apartheid in South Africa, 1948 -- Africa drawn into the Second World War, 1940-45 -- The end of European rule, 1951-90 -- Violence to gain national…
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