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Friday, 2 September 2016

HAITIAN REVOLUTION

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The Haitian Revolution (French: Révolution haïtienne [ʁevɔlysjɔ̃ ajisjɛ̃n]), used to be a triumphant anti-slavery and anti-colonial riot that took situation in the former French colony of Saint Domingue that lasted from 1791 except 1804. It impacted the tuition of slavery for the duration of the Americas. Self-liberated slaves destroyed slavery at house, fought to maintain their freedom, and with the collaboration of mulattoes, situated the sovereign state of Haiti. It led to the greatest slave rebellion when you consider that Spartacus, who led an unsuccessful insurrection towards the Roman Republic just about 1,900 years prior.

Friday, 19 August 2016

AFRICA: THE BEGINNING OF HUMANITY

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Can you tell which is a modern human skull, and which is one of the earliest human skulls?

Scientists found fossils from the earliest humans in Africa. So we know the earliest humans came from Africa. We found human bodies that are more than one million, five hundred thousand (1,500,000) years old.
The earliest people we know anything about lived in the Sahara Desert about ten thousand (10,000) years ago. The Sahara is a desert today, but 10,000 years ago, it had plenty of rain and plants. We know about these people because of their cave paintings. When the Sahara area started to dry up and become desert, the Saharan people traveled to other places and disappeared.