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Chapter 10: The Secrets of Kush — World History 101

The African kingdom south of Egypt that conquered the pharaohs, ruled Sudan and Ethiopia for a millennium, and wrote in a script we still cannot read.
Chapter 30: The Mystery of Great Zimbabwe — World History 101

How a sub-Saharan African city of 18,000 people mined and traded 40 percent of the world’s gold supply for three centuries — and how European archaeologists spent decades refusing to admit it had been built by Africans.
Chapter 45: Imperialism and the Modern World — World History 101

How European empires carved the globe at the Berlin Conference, ran the Scramble for Africa, and left wounds the post-colonial world is still healing.