Oral tradition is significant in all cultures and societies. ... Other myths account for the organization of the world and society, for instance how men and women were created and why they are different from one another. ... A historian can take this information and record it so that everyone around the world could learn the history of the great kings and queens of Africa. " Without us the names of kings would vanish into oblivion, we are the memory of mankind; by the spoken word we bring to life the deeds and exploits of kings for younger generations." ... "My word is pure and free of all u...

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• Grade Level: High School

"The trade of slaves is in a more peculiar manner the business of kings, rich men, and prime merchants, exclusive of the inferior sort of Blacks.... It proves that slavery was a high commodity and there were powers, involving kings, merchants, and even production empires in Africa contributing to it. ... Inspection was an important process in slavery, "when the Europeans are to receive them, every part of every one of them, men and women being all stark naked.... There was also different categories slaves fell under, like household slavery categorized women, and agriculture productio...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In this photo Africa is in the center of it all. All the white men want parts of Africa. ... There were no white men in the villages. ... In both Things Fall Apart and "Document E," the white men force the Africans to be under the kings rule. ... The white man said, "This great king is now your king, and this land is all his land" (D). ...

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When one imagines the trans-Atlantic slave trade, it is easy to see the typical vision of European men probing the wilds of Africa for selections of potential slaves. ... History often likes to portray all Africans of this time period as helpless victims when in actuality come of them were just as, if not more, ruthless in the slave trade than their European counterparts. ... The image of European men delving deep into the interior of Africa to capture slaves is simply not true. Many European men chasing after slaves were too terrified of foreign illnesses that lurked deep in the African jungl...

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All history is a current event." ... This is the technique used to map when all the living things die. Due to the fact that all living things contain carbon. ... Basically all the components needed for the development of a rich and vast civilisation. For any civilisation as massive and prosperous as Egypt would grow, there becomes a need for a complex and intricate hierarchy to be put in place, which created a social structure of kings, nobles and common folk. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate