What was the most significant event,invention,person that made a HUGE differnce in the way Aferica turned out. Like something that made an everlasting differnce. I have a project on this so im looking for ideas. Thanks. Nick Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Colonialism certainly had a huge effect. Agriculture transformed nomadic societies into a sedentary farming culture, making them helpless against drought. It is thought that language was needed before the original humans began to travel out of Africa. There's three quickies.
When David Duke, Louis Farraken, Reverend Moon and Ziggy Stardust united in protest over parliamentary acts that placed high taxes on Lord Grey tea, hashish, and contraceptives by the government of King Tut, and disguised as Zulu warriors, climbed aboard triremes moored in the Congo River and hurled 2 tons of Trojans overboard, which led to open revolution and resulted in the Congo winning its independence from Upper Egypt and establishing the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Easily the most significant event in Aferican history.
Ok first off, if you're doing a project on this, please spell it Africa. You'll at least get one point right. I'd have to say colonialism to be one of the biggest significant events in Africa as it could be seen to be one of the biggest influencing events in Africa's history. It completely altered the African landscape and the economy and societies existing on the continent. I was going to say the evolution of man, but that would have been cheesy Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
The selling of the African people to the white man by their own leaders. It was common for the chiefs of certain tribes to sell their "overstock" to the white slave traders to earn goods to make those chiefs more powerful and rich.
From our point of view, the most significant event in Africa was the evolution of our own species- homo sapiens.
Berlin conference (1884-1885) or the Maxim gun (in one battle 50 soldiers fought off 5,000 warriors with just four Maxim guns).
The end of colonialism. Before colonialism Africa had no borders, after it they had to be defined. Badly as it happens, by western(European) powers who just put a ruler accross a map. They don't fit with geological, demographic, natural or traditional boundaries and they are the source or at least contributing factor of much of todays issues in Africa.
Spyke, you are full of crap, Reverend Moon had nothing to do with the Congo, having had all his appendages removed during a disasterous raid by intoxicated pigmies 3 years before... Seriously, the most significant event was the climate change that caused humans to shift their habitat and lifestyle to the plains, and eventually out of Africa.
