Pre colonial period

West Africa - Nigeria

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Money has come a long way in 5,000 years. While people once bartered for the items they desired, today people are buying and trading in cryptocurrencies like the bitcoin.

An overview of what 21st century Philippine literature was like in the Pre-colonial period. Their contributions sparked a change in our lives especially in the way we see literature today. 𝕤𝕦𝕓𝕞𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕖𝕕 𝕓𝕪: 𝘗𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢 𝘕𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘈𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘯𝘢 𝘍𝘢𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘭 𝘉𝘦𝘢 𝘊𝘰 𝘑𝘢𝘴𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘈𝘯𝘯 𝘗𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘧𝘰𝘹

King Frederik VII was married to Swedish Princess Lovisa (Louise), and had 7 children: Louise, Christian, Ingeborg, Carl, Harald, Thyra, ...

The Spanish Arrive in the Philippines In 1521, Portuguese-born Spanish explorer Ferdinand Magellan arrived in the Philippines. The land that had previously belonged to natives and Asian settlers soon became a key location for Spanish trade and military bases. A 356 year long occupation of the Philippines would follow, during which the Filipinos were subjected to severe oppression while Spain worked toward its imperial goals which primarily included the spread of Catholicism. With the…

Mindanao still keeps its pre-colonial culture alive.

The Philippines were ruled by Western powers - first the Spanish and later the United States, for some 350 years.

Alaafin Orompotoniyun of the Oyo Empire of modern-day Nigeria has been described as the first person on earth to perform a successful transgender operation on herself within 7 days. Orompotoniyun did this in 1540, over 400 years before the white man could even venture into that. Referred to as the first female king of Oyo Empire, Orompotoniyun...

The architecture of the Philippines is a combination of the influences that impacted it during its pre-colonial and colonial periods.