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10 historical timeline of Lagos

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Nothing supersedes  history in the past experience of humans, and as historical occurrences is so important for the upcoming generation, the usefulness cannot be neglected. Today on we explore 10 historical occurrences that made Lagos, Nigeria the king of all Nigeria States from the facts that Lagos state was usurped by the Oba of Benin in the late 13th century to the fact that Lagos states only becomes part of Nigeria in 1914. Let go down the Timeline in history. 1300-1400AD: CITING OF HUMAN Long before 13th century, humans have been inhabiting the present site of Lagos state and the people the who got credited for that are a partition of Yoruba ethnicity CALLED THE AWORIS. EARLY-1400AD. PEACE TREATY At some point when the 14th century is still young, when the immersive Benin Empire was a real dominant force to reckon with, the Oba of the Benin Empire, received a formal complaint submitted to him about disturbances along the trade routes on hearing such the king sent a sea

christopher columbus fourth voyage: 1502- 1504

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The disaster that was the third voyage essentially brought to a close the Columbus Era in the New World. While other explorers, such as Amerigo  Vespucci , believed that Columbus had found previously unknown lands, he stubbornly held to the claim that he had found the eastern edge of Asia and that he would soon find the markets of India, China and Japan. Although many at court believed Columbus to be mad, he was able to put together a fourth voyage, which as well as his previous three voyages will be financed by the Spanish crown. and as promised we bring to your face the fourth and last visit and exploration of the great sealord to the 'new world'.     the fourth voyage:

the third voyage of Christopher Columbus: imprisoned and acquainted

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After the discovery on his  maiden voyage  in 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed to the Americas the second time, and this time was with large fleet and the only reward was the discovery of the island of Santo Domingo situated in the present day Dominican republic, stumbling upon many problems in the journey, but the creation of the settlement at santo Domingo where Christopher Columbus became the governor general, but he have to go back to Spain due to shortage of resources. Columbus has thought of selling the slaves he acquired in the islands on getting back to Spain but to his uttermost dismay his patrons king Ferdinand and queen Isabella did not allow for taking of slaves in the islands.

the second voyage of Christopher Columbus: a taste in slavery

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  some days ago we posted about this great captain that soar on the great atlantic to find the new world, and the importance of his four voyages cannot be belittled. having promised you that we will post the four voyages in succession, so here is the second and more larger voyage than the first. enjoy! christopher columbus docked from his first voyage in march 1493; and according to him the the santa maria first voyage has been some kind of fiasco, as Christopher Columbus did not realize he had found the new world; he thought he has just barged into some uncharted virgin land. and secondly he has lost two of the ships entrusted to him, so the first voyage was noting but a kind of loss to him, even more hilarious because he thinks the uncharted islands that he found was somewhere around japan or china;  he concluded that more exploration would be needed and this been the base for the great explorer's second exploration to the new world.

The maiden voyage of Christopher Columbus: the quest to find trade routes

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if Christopher Columbus is to be alive today, no one could imagine how famous and influential he would be; some people will say the significance of the voyage of Christopher Columbus can not be over-emphasized, explorers and great seafarers have been know to engage on the voyages in search of west indies, but Christopher Columbus maiden voyage to the west indies can not be seen as insignificant on the discovery of the vast empire and civilization that has been in existence for thousands of years. today on HistoricalForte we explore the great explorer's first voyage to the Americas.

The british west african conquests

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At the beginning of the 19th century, Britain's main interest was in trade with India, which it had come to dominate by the end of the 18th century. The British interest in Africa was incidental to this--ships bound to and from India had to pass along the African coast where they obtained supplies and occasionally became shipwrecked. Only a few spots in West Africa, like the Gold Coast and the Slave Coast (modern Nigeria), offered enough profit to make them attractive in their own right, so that by the end of "the Scamble" the British occupied only the Gambia, Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast and Nigeria. Naturally, the British also acquired extensive holdings elsewhere in Africa, notably in Egypt, Kenya and South Africa, but in West

The aftermath of the abolishing of slave trade in africa

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In 1787, the British helped 400 freed slaves, primarily African Americans freed during the American Revolutionary War, West Indians and Africans from London, to relocate to Sierra Leone to settle in what they called the "Province of Freedom." Some had been freed earlier and worked as servants in London. Most of the first group died due to disease and warfare with indigenous peoples. About 64 survived to settle Granville Town. In 1792, they were joined by 1200 Black Loya After Britain and the United States abolished the international African slave trade beginning in 1808, they patrolled off the continent to intercept illegal shipping. The British resettled Emancipated Africans at Freetown .        lists from Nova Scotia, African Americans and their descendants; some adults had left rebel owners and fought for the British in the revolutionary War. The Crown freed them as promised and resettled 3,000 of the African Americans

ashanti: a country like no other

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foreword warrior in ashanti the asante (otherwise spelled ashanti) people are the akan  empire in the modern day Ghana which thrived in the 1700s through the year 1957 this state which main economic position is trading in gold bars; trade in gold bars that earn the state a name of GOLD COAST , agriculture; mainly cocoa and other cash crops like coffee and kola nuts. The Ashanti Empire expanded from Ashanti to include the Brong-Ahafo, Central region, Eastern region,Greater Accra region, and Western region, of present-day Ghana. Ashanti people used military power due to effective strategy and early firearm adoption to create an empire that stretched from central Ghana to the present-day Ivory Coast. Due to the empire's military prowess, wealth, architecture, sophisticated hierarchy and culture, the Ashanti empire was extensively studied and has more historical studies by European, mainly British, authors than almost any other indigenous culture of Sub-Saharan Afr

THE STATE OF GAUL

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       OVERVIEW The  Gauls  were Celtic peoples inhabiting Gaul in the Iron Age and the Roman period (roughly from the 5th century BC to the 5th century AD). Their Gaulish language forms the main branch of the Continental Celtic languages. wikipedia.com The Gauls emerged around the 5th century BC as the bearers of the La Tène culture north of the Alps (spread across the lands between the Seine, Middle Rhine and upper Elbe). By the 4th century BC, they spread over much of what is now France, Belgium, Switzerland, Southern Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic by virtue of controlling the trade routes along the river systems of the Rhône, Seine, Rhine, and  Danube , and they quickly expanded into Northern Italy, the Balkans, Transylvania and Anatolia. Gaul was never united under a single ruler or government, but the Gallic tribes were capable of uniting their forces in large-scale military operations. They reached the peak of their power in the early 3rd century BC. The rising

THE OYO EMPIRE: the origin, culture, powers of the most vast empire in the Yoruba lands

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 Yoruba state north of Lagos, in present-day southwestern Nigeria, that dominated, during its apogee  Oyo Empire  was one of the Largest Empire in West African state established by Yoruba people in (1650–1750), most of the states between the Volta River in the west and the Niger River in the east. It was the most important and authoritative of all the early Yoruba principalities. the Oyo Empire grew to become one of the largest West African states. It rose through the outstanding organizational skills of the Yoruba, wealth gained from trade and its powerful   cavalry . The Oyo Empire was the most politically important state in the region from the mid-17th to the late 18th century,   holding sway not only over most of the other kingdoms in   Yorubaland , but also over nearby African states, notably
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THE OTTOMAN TURKS: origin

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The creation and the growth of the ottoman empire 1 3 00–1402 In their initial stages of expansion, the Ottomans were leaders of the Turkish warriors for the faith of Islam, known by the honorific title ghazi. which means raider in Arabic , who fought against the liquidating Christian Byzantine state. The ancestors of Osman I, the founder of the dynasty, were members of the Kayı tribe who had entered Anatolia along with a mass of Turkish  Oguz nomads. These nomads, fleeing from the Mongols of Genghis Khan, overwhelmed Byzantium after the Battle of Manzikert in 1071 and occupied eastern and central Anatolia during the 12th century. The ghazis fought against the Byzantines and then the Mongols, who invaded Anatolia following the esta Il-Khanid  empire in Iran and Mesopotamia in the last half of the 13th century. With the disintegration of Seljuq power and its replacement by Mongol suzerainty, enforced by direct military occupation of much of eastern Anatolia, independent Turkish princ

The second nigerian republic: an insight toward a restart

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The Second Republic was the republican government of Nigeria between 1979 and 1983 governed by the second republican constitution. Following the assassination of Nigerian military Head of State, General Murtala Mohammed in 1976, his successor General Olusegun Obasanjo initiated the transition process to terminate military rule in 1979. A new constitution was drafted, which saw the Westminster system of government (previously used in the First Republic) jettisoned for an American-style Presidential system. The 1979 constitution mandated that political parties and cabinet positions reflect the "federal character" of the nation � Political parties were required to be registered in at least two-thirds of the states, and each state was required to produce at least one cabinet member.