HIST 10B Lecture 2: HISTORY 10B - Week 2
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Week 2 lecture 4 04/04/2016: there are many stereotypes that exist about africa, three travelers" accounts of young men, two from great britain, and one from north. Books written for children: the seven champions of christendom , travels in the interior of africa . William brown wrote journal about his travel to dafur, produced a map of south sudan based on information from local informants as well as his own travels like how joseph. Dupuis created a map of trading routes in west africa (esp. the sahara) that was based on interviews that he had with african merchants in ashanti"s capital, kumasi. Can get a sense of what africa was like in the 1800s. What did it look like to people in the 19th century: maps. 1802 drawn by aerosmith: same image we see in airline magazines, outline precise, based on seafarers track, but did not know about the interior of.
