History of Cambodia
Coming from India along the coast, the first people probably got to Cambodia around 45,000 BC. They Funan With the rise of the Silk Road sea trade, India's traders sold things to [...]
History of Vietnam from the Stone Age to today
Early Vietnam History of Vietnam: Fishermen's wicker boats on the beach at Danang, in Vietnam The first people, with their dogs and baskets, probably reached Vietnam around 45,000 BC, coming along [...]
History of Korea
History of Korea: Early Korean pottery Stone Age Korea The first modern people, and their dogs, probably reached Korea about 40,000 BC. Some of them came east across Central Asia [...]
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Early African warfare – mercenaries and catapults
Early African warfare: Nubian archers in the Middle Kingdom (from the Nubian museum in Aswan, Egypt) The beginnings of war There has been fighting in Africa since the early Stone [...]
Science in Islamic Africa – medieval African science
Medieval African science: The walls of Timbuktu, in Mali, West Africa Medieval African science In the 700s AD, the Islamic Empire conquered North Africa and began to trade a lot with East Africa. Islamic government did [...]
African map project – al Idrisi and Ptolemy’s maps
African map project: Al-Idrisi's map of the world (1100s AD) What's new about al Idrisi's map? Check out this copy of al-Idrisi's map of the world, created in the 1100s AD. Who was [...]
Ships and sailing in ancient Africa – early boats
Early boats: A person in a boat (Barramiya, Upper Egypt, ca. 4000 BC) Early boats: When did people invent boats? African sailing has a long history. People were probably using [...]
Medieval African history – Timbuktu and Great Zimbabwe
Mansa Musa of Mali After the 400s AD, the Bantu expansion slowed down. They had already settled most of the good farmland in southern Africa. What was left was mainly desert [...]
Islamic North Africa – caravans across the Sahara
Islamic North Africa: Kairouan mosque (ca. 800 AD) The Eastern Roman reconquest of North Africa in the 530s AD ended the Vandal kingdom there. But trade declined until the Islamic invasions of North [...]
