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When people think of medieval knights & chivalry, they think of European culture. What if I told you chivalry was introduced to Europeans by Arabs? https://t.co/lEujiszM0Y
In one of the largest insurances of Cannibalism in recorded history, European Crusaders slaughtered & ate an entire city of Muslims. According to the Chronicler Ralph of Caen, adu...
-The United States Occupation of Haiti, 1915 - 1934 - Hans Schmidt https://t.co/tJ5MYdBFAP
In reality, Castration was mainly a European practice that was later adopted by the Ottomans. The majority of Eunuchs were European. The Muslim Empires, of course, would later mak...
In 2014, a Congolese man in the tiny village of Kasulo, near the town of Kolwezi in Southern Congo was digging a hole in his backyard for the construction of an outdoor toilet. Abo...
These are the only eyewitness accounts of Mansa Musa & his pilgrimage to Mecca. The first from al-Umari, who was a contemporary of Mansa Musa. The second from Ibn Khaldun, who inte...
A thread on my all-time favorite books on Black/African history Precolonial Black Africa - Cheikh Anta Diop A History Of Upper Guinea Coast - Walter Rodney The Destruction of...
During the New England smallpox outbreak of 1720, renowned Puritan minister Cotton Mather proposed inoculation against the disease. An enslaved African named Onesimus had informed...
Africans taught Americans advanced ironwork techniques. Even the U.S. government admits it. This should be common knowledge. Enslaved Africans made America the leading producers o...
Part 1 of my thread on the abolition of slavery by Britain. Part 1 covers the history of Abolitionism from 1791 to the slave trade abolition act of 1807. Part 2 will cover 1807 t...
Between January 1899 and April 1900, french colonial troops in Africa, under the command of Captain Paul Voulet & Lieutenant Julien Chanoine, committed some of the most brutal act...
I'm doing a series of threads on the role & treatment of women in Ancient societies. I'm going to cover the Ancient Greeks, ancient Egyptians, Nubians, Persians , Romans, Assyrians...