Warfare & Diplomacy in Pre-colonial West AfricaUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 1989 - 164 pages This new edition of the well-known innovative study of the relations of the peoples of West Africa in the precolonial period covers a period of some four or five hundred years, up to the last decades of the nineteenth century.& Smith takes account of outside influences but focuses primarily on what happened between African states before the partition of the area and the establishment of colonies. |
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... North and North - East Africa from the eleventh century onwards , or even before , and affecting mainly the savannah region . The second was that of Western Europe , whose officials , traders and missionaries began to arrive from the ...
... North and North - East Africa from the eleventh century onwards , or even before , and affecting mainly the savannah region . The second was that of Western Europe , whose officials , traders and missionaries began to arrive from the ...
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... North Africa and the Near East.62 The first firearms to be seen in West Africa were probably the handguns carried by the Portuguese expeditionary forces who arrived on the coast in the last two decades of the fifteenth century . On ...
... North Africa and the Near East.62 The first firearms to be seen in West Africa were probably the handguns carried by the Portuguese expeditionary forces who arrived on the coast in the last two decades of the fifteenth century . On ...
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... North Africa . These were mostly brought across the Sahara but there was also some seaborne import of horses ( from the Iberian Peninsula as well as from Barbary ) by the Portuguese . It was the trade in North African horses , first men ...
... North Africa . These were mostly brought across the Sahara but there was also some seaborne import of horses ( from the Iberian Peninsula as well as from Barbary ) by the Portuguese . It was the trade in North African horses , first men ...
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their Causes Consequences | 28 |
Armies Canoe Fleets | 42 |
Arms Armour | 64 |
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