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The concept of Germany as a distinct region in Central Europe can be traced to Julius Caesar, who referred to the unconquered area east of the Rhine as Germania, thus distinguishing it from Gaul.
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The Kingdom of Diafuni was a province of the Ghana Empire and the Mali Empire. The area now consists of Gambia, a country surrounded by Senegal on all sides except for the western part, which is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean.
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The Akan people are a Kwa group living primarily in present-day Ghana and in parts of Ivory Coast and Togo in West Africa. Akan was one of the sons of Ezer, descendant of Seir the Horite, who lived in Edom.
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The Greek Dark Ages refers to a period of Greek history at the beginning of the collapse of civilization in the Eastern Mediterranean world.
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Before the arrival of Europeans, Grenada was inhabited by the indigenous Arawak peoples from South America, Martinique, and several small islands.
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The history of Guatemala traces back to the Maya civilization an area that today comprises southeastern Mexico, all of Guatemala and Belize, and the western portions of Honduras and El Salvador.
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What is now Guinea was on the fringes of the major West African empires. The Ancient Ghana Empire, called Wagadu, is believed to be one of the earliest of these.
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The megaliths and stone circles of Guinea-Bisseau may have been built by the ancestors of the Serer people. They have been historically noted as an ethnic group practicing elements of both matrilineality and patrilineality.
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Cuffy, also known as Kofi Badu, was an Akan man who was captured in his native West Africa and sold into slavery on the plantations of present-day Guyana. The Baoulé are an Akan people and one of the largest ethnicities in Côte d'Ivoire.
Akan was one of the sons of Ezer, descendant of Seir the Horite, who lived in Edom.
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Ceramics were and continue to be significant to many aspects of life in Africa. One of the constants is that they are usually hand crafted without the use of a wheel, utilizing coiling and molding techniques.
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Toussaint L'Ouverture, one of the leaders of Haiti's slave rebellion, is said to have been the son of a chieftain in the kingdom of Dahomey in West Africa.
Henri Christophe (r. 1811-1820 AD) was a key leader in the Haitian Revolution and the only monarch of the Kingdom of Haiti.
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Copán was a powerful city ruling a vast kingdom within the southern Maya area. The city suffered a major political disaster in 738 AD when King Uaxaclajuun Ub'aah K'awiil (r. 695-738) was captured and executed by his former vassal, the king of Quiriguá.
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The Magyars are considered to have been the descendants of the ancient Scythians and Huns.
The earliest Hungarian chronicles adopted the idea that the Huns and Hungarians were closely related.... referring to Attila the Hun as a ruler "from whose line Prince Álmos", the supreme head of the Magyar tribes, descended.
The Scynthians were descendants of Ashkenaz, the son of Gomer, the grandson of Japheth, a nomadic people who migrated through the Caucasus (c. 800 BC).
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Archaeological evidence indicates Gaelic monks, called the Papar, from Ireland, may have settled in 874 AD. Viking explorers settled in the late ninth century.
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The Indus Valley Civilization was one of three early civilizations together with ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia of the Near East and South Asia. Its sites spanned an area including much of modern day Pakistan, northwestern India and northeast Afghanistan.
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This week's beYOUteous blog post features Queen Adad-Guppi, the daughter of King Ashurbanipal II and Ashursharrat l of Assyria… and mother to King Nabonidus, father of Biblical King Belshazzar.
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The earliest known inscription in which the Srivijaya Kingdom appears dates from the 7th century in the Kedukan Bukit inscription found near Palembang, Sumatra (c. 682).
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Iran is home to one of the world's oldest continuous major civilizations, with historical and urban settlements dating back to 4000 BC. The Iranian Empire began with the rise of the Medes, who unified Iran as a nation and empire in 625 BC.
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Some of the oldest surviving African textiles (leather, fur and raffia) were discovered at the archaeological site of Kissi in northern Burkina Faso, a country in West Africa.
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Iraq largely coincides with the ancient region of Mesopotamia. The Lakhmid Kingdom was an Arab kingdom in Southern Iraq and Eastern Arabia, with al-Hirah as their capital, from the late 3rd century to 602 AD.
