Wessex , one of the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England whose rule The dynasty eventually became kings of the entire land. At its permanent core, its land approximated that of the modern counties of Hampshire, Dorset, Wiltshire, and Somerset. At times his lands extended north of the Thames
Biafra , secessionist West African state that unilaterally declared its independence from Nigeria in May 1967. It formed the former eastern region of Nigeria and was mainly inhabited by Igbo (Ibo) folks. Biafra ceased to exist as an independent state in January 1970. Britannica Quiz
Dayr al-Baḥrī , also Deir el-Bahri , Egyptian archaeological site in the necropolis of Thebes . It consists of a bay in the cliffs on the western shore of the Nils east of the Valley of the Kings . Its name (Arabic for Northern Monastery) refers to a Monastery erected there
Third Reich , official national socialist Label for the regime in Germany from January 1933 to May 1945 as the putative successor to the medieval and early modern Holy Roman Empire from 800 to 1806 (First Empire) and the German Empire from 1871 to 1918 (the Second Empire).
Hadar , site of paleoanthropological excavations in the lower Awash River Valley in the Afar region of Ethiopia . It is in the northernmost part of the eastern (Great) Rift Valley Africa , about 300 km northeast of Addis Ababa . The lower valley of the Awash River, ie the Hadar
Kingdom of Rwanda , traditional East African state, now Republic of Rwanda . The area is believed to have been settled by Hutu sometime between the 5th and 11th centuries and then from the Tutsi from the 14th century. The Tutsi, a pastoral people, dominated the Hutu, who were farmers.
Arzawa , ancient kingdoms of western or southwestern Anatolia (the exact position is disputed). Although Arzawa has long been a rival of The Hittite The kingdom was occasionally conquered and vassaled by some of the more powerful Hittite kings, such as Labarnas I ( approx. 1680–
Matamba , historical African kingdom on the Cuango River northeast of Luanda , Angola . Founded by Kimbundu-speaking people ( see Mbundu ) before the 16th century it was up to about 1550 loosely under the orbit of the Congo Kingdom . The Matamba kingdom was notable in that it
Tassili-n-Ajjer , an area in Southern Algeria, in which prehistoric rock paintings (and many engravings) were first discovered in 1910 and subsequently in the 1930s and 1960s. Britannica Quiz Destination Africa:Fact or Fiction? Is Africas northernmost point further north than Europes sout
Canaan , an area used in the historical and biblical literature is defined differently but always focused on Palestine. The original pre-Israelite inhabitants were called Canaanites. The names Canaan and Canaanite come in wedge-shaped , 15th-century Egyptian and Phoenician scripts v
Punt , in ancient Egyptian and Greek geography, the south coast of the Red Sea and the adjacent Coasts of the Gulf of Aden , corresponding to the modern coast Ethiopia and Djibouti . Britannica Quiz Exploring Africa:Fact or Fiction? Though this continent is teeming with na
Mahra Sultanate , full Mahra Sultanate of Qishn and Socotra , former semi-independent state on the South Arabian Peninsula , including the island Sokotra in Indian Ocean , in todays East Yemen . The mainland part of the sultanate on the coast of the Arabian Sea had its capit
Kush , also Cush written , the southern part of the ancient region known as Nubia . Read more about this topic Sudan:The Kingdom of Kush … provincial capital in Aswān and Kush (also spelled Cush) in the south with headquarters in Napata (Marawī). Nubia...
Ndutu , north location Tanzania, known for a 400,000-year-old human skull and associated Stone Age Tools , discovered there in 1973. The skull has features of Homo erectus and H. sapiens on , where brain size is intermediate between the two types. Like H. erectus it has a
Copán , old ruin Maya Far West City Honduras near the Guatemalan border. It is located on the west bank of the Copán River, about 56 km west of the modern city Santa Rosa de Copán . The page has been added to World Heritage List 1980. Copán began as a small agricultural se
Portuguese India , Portuguese Estado da Índia , name once used for those parts India was used the from 1505 to December 1961 under Portuguese ruled. Portuguese India consisted of several isolated areas:(1) the area of Goa with the capital, a considerable area in the middle of
Sikyatki (Hopi:Yellow House), ruined pueblo covering 4 to 6 hectares in present-day Navajo County northeast of Arizona , United States. The site was occupied by members of the USAs Firewood or Kokop clan Hopi during the regressive Pueblo stage (c. Ad 1300-1700) the Ancestral Pueblo
Midlothian , Southeastern Township and Historic County Scotland , south of the Firth of Forth. The historic county and township includes slightly different areas. The municipal area includes a suburban and rural area south and southeast of Edinburgh . The northern part of the parish
Waldeck , a former circle (county) and state Germany , between Westphalia and Hesse-Nassau. It was a principality for centuries and a republic from November 1918 to March 1929 and on State of Weimar Republic . On April 1, 1929, at the request of its people, it was merged with Pr
Hausa , a group of neighboring African states occasionally linked by loose alliances from the mid-14th century. Their territory was above the confluence of the Niger and Benue rivers (todays north) Nigeria ) between the Songhai Empire to the west and that of Kanem-Bornu or Bornu to th
The pre-colonial period took place from 1500 to 1535. Its main characteristic was the almost absence of effective colonization policies by Portugal in relation to Brazil. The period that began in 1500 with the arrival of Pedro Álvares Cabral to Brazil and it was until the mid-1530s with the creatio
Krupa is a small town in todays Bosnia-Herzegovina. In 1565 things were different as the city was a border fortress between the Habsburg Empire and the Ottoman Empire which was still ruled by Suleiman the Magnificent, who was rather petty and dishonorable... The death of Ferdinand of Habsburg, ki
Hunting habits led the first humans to change their diet in Prehistory, influencing their evolution and the environment in which they lived. By Me. Tales PinroSeveral species of the genus homo evolved over millions of years until the arrival of the species homo sapiens , which scientists say we con
Its launch power compensated for its slow reload speed compared to the traditional bow (see The English longbow versus the Genoese crossbow in Desperta Ferro Antigua y Medieval #32:The Hundred Years War I ) and its apparently simple mechanism made it easy to use and maintain, so the soldier did not