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The town of Takeda in the Niger Bend was a centre for copper mining and trade in Egyptian goods, like cloth. [1] The routes from Morocco to Egypt were large distribution centres for gold. [1] Map of Ibn Battuta's route into West Africa . In his memoirs, Battuta also described the dangers of the trade routes.
The Dutch established a patroon system with feudal-like rights given to a few powerful landholders; they also established religious tolerance and free trade. The colony's capital of New Amsterdam was founded in 1625 and located at the southern tip of the island of Manhattan , which grew to become a major world city.
The history of the territories which since ca. 1900 have been known under the name of Nigeria during the pre-colonial period (16th to 18th centuries) was dominated by several powerful West African kingdoms or empires, such as the Benin Kingdom, Oyo Empire and the Islamic Kanem-Bornu Empire in the northeast.
1500: Charles of Ghent (future Lord of the Netherlands, King of Spain, Archduke of Austria, and Holy Roman Emperor) was born. 1500: Guru Nanak begins the spreading of Sikhism, the fifth-largest religion in the world. 1500: Spanish navigator Vicente Yáñez Pinzón encounters Brazil but is prevented from claiming it by the Treaty of Tordesillas.
By this treaty, France ceded its territories east of the Mississippi River to Britain. This area was made a part of the expanded British West Florida colony. [11] The British changed the name of Fort Condé to Fort Charlotte, after Queen Charlotte. [12] The French were eager to explore North America but New France remained largely unpopulated.
West African hunter-gatherers occupied western Central Africa (e.g., Shum Laka) earlier than 32,000 BP, [3] dwelled throughout coastal West Africa by 12,000 BP, [7] migrated northward between 12,000 BP and 8000 BP as far as Mali, Burkina Faso, [7] and Mauritania, [8] and persisted as late as 1000 BP [7] or some period of time after 1500 CE.
The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD 500), the Middle Ages (AD 500–1500), and the modern era (since AD 1500). The first early European modern humans appear in the fossil record about 48,000 years ago, during the Paleolithic era.
There were numerous Spanish explorers and conquistadors who explored the Southwest of North America (including present-day west and central United States) and crossed the continent (east to west) in its southern regions, mainly from the second quarter to the middle of the 16th century, such as Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and Francisco ...