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sources and importance of history:

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TOPIC ONE SOURSES AND IMPORTANCE OF HISTORY ·        Meaning of history ·        Importance of history ·        Sources of history History; is the study of the past events collected by historians based by verifiable facts. OR History; is the study of man and his activities in different periods. IMPORTANCE OF HISTORY: 1. To understand how societies were formed and developed. 2. Help in understanding and appreciation of culture, political, economic and technological development. 3. To learn how people depended to each other. 4. To learn when and where important events took place. 5. To understand the level of development at different stages of human development. Discussion questions; Qn1. why do we study history? QN2. What is history? Qn3. Mention five importance of history, SOURCES OF HISTORY:      1.   Oral tradition ...
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Describe with examples the differences between Artifacts and Acofacts. (Ay 304)

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Archaeology, like most disciplines, relies on various sources to obtain its archaeological information. In archaeology, such sources are material remains of the past which are, normally, excavated from different sites and critically analyzed to provide reliable archaeological information that can be used for different purposes including supporting research in various other disciplines. According to Hines (2004:9) such material remains of the past notably; ecofacts, artifacts, structures and features are a huge source of information such that academic discipline of archaeology is, at most, the study of these. In his book “Field Archaeology: An introduction”, Drewett (2012: 100) documents the importance of each individual type of material remain as having different value and role to archaeologists. In his account, however, such material remains are considered to have slight demarcations that are unclear to most people. It is from such pretext that this paper attempts, among...
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Why some areas in Africa experienced more intensive scramble than others?

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The scramble for colonies in Africa was the intense competition or struggle for the control of African territories, which took place among the European capitalist nations in the 1880s and 1890s. Before the 1880s   European countries were not much interested to establish colonialism in African continent, while they had only trade relationship with Africans and to spread Christianity religion. Also before the 19 th century European had no idea if African continent had other things to offer rather than forestry materials and slaves. During the scramble for and partition of Africa some areas experienced more scramble than others; this was due to the following factors: 1. Some areas were potential for agriculture; the objective of controlling African continent was for the exploitation of agriculture raw materials. European countries occupied areas with soil fertility and enough rainfall. Example of areas which were potential for agricultural raw materials includes Niger b...
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