Colonization
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COMING TO AMERICA—Abu Bakar—1310 AD—The Fula, Hausa, & Tuareg Mansa Musa reported that for the first voyage, "Abu Bakar equipped 2000 ships filled with men and the same number eq...
What #CBSE history books tell us- #VascoDaGama was the first #European to reach India by sea. What they don't tell us 1. When he arrived in Calicut in Sep 1500, he #burnt other s...
The Portuguese Government showed no signs of leaving Goa, Daman and Diu— their overseas possessions in India—even after August 1947. On the other hand, it seemed that they were neg...
Muslims cry about Western colonization, our ancestors were engaged in the very same practises at the same level. Muslims took slaves, looted, and erased cultures. In an alternate...
From Indian Occupied Kashmir: New Colonies set up in Dewar to further settler colonial projects: https://t.co/Bo6fKn1jCu
Paratroopers in Goa 1961 Even after the last British soldier had left India in 1947, the country was not entirely free from foreign rule. The French and the Portuguese still clung...
THEY CAME FOR BENIN... Let's be clear, the Nigerian Kingdom with the longest history of interaction with Europeans wasn't the Great Oyo Empire, not Kano emirate, not the Arochukwu...
All these comparisons with Singapore, China, US etc are asinine. Pretty much every major economy on earth achieved a high level of development before becoming a full democracy or a...
STORY OF JAJA OF OPOBO: THE SLAVE BOY WHO BECAME KING AND WAS ENVIED BY THE BRITISH A THREAD Retweet To Educate Someone https://t.co/u0dorPiLVO
Certain vested interests see India's logic defying diversity of tribes & languages as a weakness to be exploited. But it is a true 5000 year wonder. Modern India tries its best to...
This was the vast expanse of India before crooks divided it using crayons. In the west it had direct access to Iran, in north to Russia, in East to Tibet:China & SE to Malay-Kore...
(1/9) The enslaved appear in the first known document commemorating Christopher Columbus' first voyage in 1492, a significant moment in global history. https://t.co/48As8DwEaB
You could add Russia to the list. Strange it may sound, its pattern of expansion was similar. Except it was potamic rather than oceanic. In this respect it kinda resembled Portugu...
Fascinating to read De Gaulle's view on colonization in a book written by his confidant Alain Peyrefitte. Not because he was a humanist, he definitely wasn't, but because unlike m...
German colonizers in Namibia, due to their interest in evolutionary theory & missing links executed inmates and decapitated them. Herero women were required to remove all flesh f...
Horace Walpole IVth Earl of Orford (In England) said this about the Marathas: "Marathas are a nation of Banditti, very proper to scourge the heroes of Europe, who go so far to plu...
Greece was conquered by Islamic Ottoman Turks in the 15th century. After 300+ years, Greeks got their freedom. The first thing Greece did after Independence was purge the Turkic &...
A thief steals hundreds of millions of dollars of artwork from you Decades later, he sells the stolen art to other collectors and makes a fortune Over 120 years later, he returns...
“Badzaat Kashmiri” coined by the memoir-writers of the Mughals after invading Kashmir and later popularised throughout other non-native regimes. Jean Paul Satre often explains how...
Until 19th century in India, there was a group of selfless scholarly Brahmins whose job was treating people during Pandemic. They used to travel village to village & vaccinate eve...
Thread : Zimbabwean 🇿🇼 🇿🇼 History. From the origins of Shona and Ndebele Ancestors, 900 AD to 1890. Colonization, White Minority Rule, Liberation War, Independence from Britain in...
Quick History Lesson: The severity of the Bantu Expansion (🧵) https://t.co/UQqyzcdVQO
I always find the “Africa is better off from the results of colonization” arguments amusing. What do people think happened with African empires & their European counterparts prior...
Depictions of historical victories over colonizers https://t.co/KFfHFCO9mM
