HIS101H5 Lecture 4: Regional Histories
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Historiography: the history of history, how history is written, the use of history to justify or explain a separate history. Africa: also known as the cradle of humanity. Currently contains the most diverse language families: mercator projection (the current world map we have) An inaccurate world map (size wise shape wise it is very accurate) Africa is actually 14 times larger than greenland but this is not depicted on the map: gall-peters projection. This map is accurate in size, but not in shape: africa is made up of different regions, west africa and east asia fought a lot over egypt and who the region belonged to. Routes of sea, sand and silk: india to africa. Sailing was aided by monsoons: axum. Used to be considered a part of asia. Trade occurred through the nile to the mediterranean and through the. Copper, silver and gold coins were trades: the most valuable (gold) coins were found in yemen and.
