In 1770, while expanding eastwards the whites ran across Bantu tribes for the first time by the coast of the Great Fish river. ... Many Boers settled between the Orange river by the south- and the Vaal - by the north. This settlement eventually made up the Orange River Free State. Others settled north of the Vaal (Transvaal) river, founding a Southafrican Republic. ... He exhausted the enemy devastating the Boer farms which sheltered the guerrillas, taking the civil populationmainly women and children to concentration camps and building an extraordinary strategic chain of small iron forts ...

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• Approx Pages: 8

The youngest son of a village leader, Equiano was born among the Ibo people in the kingdom of Benin, along the Niger River. ... Two men and a woman climbed over the walls of the house and captured the children. ... One of the children survived to inherit an estate of around &160,000 from Susanna's father. ...

• Word Count: 944
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• Grade Level: High School

From 1750-1914 western civilizations conquered the world by implementing their culture and routines upon smaller and weaker nations. Countries like Africa, and India, were severely impacted both positively and negatively from the imperialism by the west. In both nations wars and violence had arose b...

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On April 13, 1919, around 20 thousand unarmed men, women, and children gathered in a public square in Punjab's capital to protest these acts. ... Great Britain dominated North America at the end of the French and Indian War in which the French and Indian allies had to surrender the entire Ohio River Valley. ...

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In 1803, the Mughal kingdom down-fell. This conclusion happened from many days before due to the inner weakness of the Indian- subcontinent. The Mughal rule, in one word, had been easily turned in the hand of British Imperialism very easily, the power was given to the british , even before they ...

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A whole subcontinent was picked up without half trying Images of the British raj in India are everywhere of late. On television reruns, the divided rulers of Paul Scott's Jewel in the Crown sip their tea in scented hill stations and swap idle gossip in the palaces of local princes. At movie houses, we can savor all the hot intensities that blast a decorous English visitor the moment she steps ashore after A Passage to India, to be engulfed in a whirlwind of mendicants, elephants, snake charmers and crowds. In New York, British director Peter Brook's nine-hour production of an ancien...

• Word Count: 5127
• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Introduction Derek Walcott's "A Far Cry from Africa," published in 1962, is a painful and jarring depiction of ethnic conflict and divided loyalties. The opening images of the poem are drawn from accounts of the Mau Mau Uprising, an extended and bloody battle during the 1950s between European settlers and the native Kikuyu tribe in what is now the republic of Kenya. In the early twentieth century, the first white settlers arrived in the region, forcing the Kikuyu people off of their tribal lands. Europeans took control of farmland and the government, relegating the Kikuyu to a ...

• Word Count: 4862
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate