- Enslaved at age eleven and forced onto a slave ship to be sold in Barbados. Later in 1762 in Virginia (a colony of United Kingdom's North America.)
How it Shaped Him:
- It led to a lifelong determination to campaign against the enslavement of African and African descents, as depicted in his autobiography.
The Late Bronze Age (the period between 1600 and 1100 BC) in the eastern Mediterranean was a time of unprecedented contacts . Kings and queens from both sides of the Aegean embarked on diplomatic missions and exchanges of prestigious goods that included objects of gold, silver, copper and tin ingots
Homo erectus appeared about 1.8 million years ago in Africa, then moved to Asia and Europe. He succeeds Homo habilis who, as his name suggests, is skilled and masters the tools. The hominid race evolves little by little. The characteristic of Homo erectus is to be bipedal and above all to stand upri
On July 21, 356 B.C. a man subjected to torture confessed the reason for his crime to the executioner in the presence of the very King of kings, the Achaemenid sovereign of Persia Artaxerxes III. He was not a pusillanimous monarch precisely because, according to the usual custom, he had ordered the
In the British army, the small Scottish military unit of the Scots Guards is one of the elite regiments making up the division of the British Royal Guard the Guards Division, alongside the Irish Guards (North Irish, light infantry ), Welsh Guards (Welsh, infantry), Grenadier Guards (light infantry)