Laos – History of Laos from the Stone Age to today
Fishing in Laos (thanks to the USGS) The first people in Laos People probably first walked or rowed boats to Laos from India, following the coast. Then they came inland [...]
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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 [...]
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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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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Roman North Africa – Carthage to Augustine
Roman North Africa: This is the amphitheater in ancient Carthage where Romans killed Christians during the Decian persecution. Carthage controls the Mediterranean By the 300s BC, the North African port of [...]
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Medieval West Africa
Copper sculpture from Medieval West Africa (Tada, Nigeria ca. 1300 AD). Djenne-Djeno's walls By 800 AD, the people of Djenne-Djeno had built a tall wall of mud-bricks around their town. The wall would protect [...]
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Who built Great Zimbabwe? Central African history
Central Africa in the Middle Ages: Great Zimbabwe Iron comes to Central Africa Besides South Africa, central Africa is the most isolated part of Africa. For many years, the people who [...]
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What does A.D. mean?
What does A.D. mean? Timeline showing BC and AD dates The meaning of A.D. and B.C. A.D. stands for Anno Domini, which is Latin for "year of our Lord," and it means [...]
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Early Cheyenne history – Native Americans
Cheyenne history: For a long time, Cheyenne people lived in Minnesota, along rivers like this one. Algonquin and Cheyenne Cheyenne people are related to the Algonquin people. From the Paleo-Indian period onward Cheyenne people [...]
