HIS102Y1 Lecture 2: Lecture 2.docx
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Study and find out where the mediterranean sea is. All historical accounts have an element of subjectivity. All historical accounts showcase an event as it might have happened. It is not only individual but also a personalized version of events: the historian is a factor in how history is told. African historiography can be looked at from three main periods. Pre-15th century: the writing of history goes back to the origins of history itself, north africa appears in the writings of countries that border the. Chronicles of wars in that area as well as african history as both a. 15th century 19th century process and discipline: by the 17th century, west africans provided their own histories, the 18th century was the main period of european expansion. In the 18th century there were chronicles written in modern day ghana. Transforms the african continent into what it became today.
