History You Need To Know
History is something we need to know in order acknowledge the importance of the events that led to today. It's important to know what happened in the past so that we can improve in the future. Nothing would have been possible without the innovations that our ancestors created. So we created this site to inform people of the technological innovations that have brought us to this point.
Technology + Math
Phones! Everyone uses them nowadays and we should learn how this great inventions came to be! Originally this invention of communication began with telegraphs. Telegraphs originally a series of taps through a wire on the other end of the cable, the taps could be translated into letters. In this way people could send messages over very long distances, as long as you laid the cable down. Math, everyone loves math and having to do trigonometry in school(sarcastic tone). However it is very useful especially with architects and if you're ever wondering the height of something based on an angle. One of the founding fathers of this math is Nassir al-Tusi a Persian, Arabic, and Islamic scholar and mathematician
Communism vs Capitalism
Karl Marx created an ideology which was communism because he wants to encourage a system that promoted an equal society where everyone is equal and get to share the same benefits from the government. The government controls all aspects of the economy; controls the economy more directly.Communist Countries: China, Cuba, Laos, Vietnam, and North Korea.Adam Smith started an ideology which was capitalism during the Industrial Revolution. This means it's controlled by private owners with competition. Due to this, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. With the rivalry during the Industrial Revolution, many Europeans competed to be the best. With
the competitiveness, it motivated the Europeans to continuously created new technology. In addition, capitalism is when the government doesn't own factories.Capitalist Countries: Singapore, New Zealand, Australia, Switzerland, Ireland, Taiwan, United Kingdom, Estonia, Canada, Denmark, United States, Georgia, and Ireland.
Trade and Goods
Trading routes and goods were an important part in history, they helped civilizations expand and thrive as cultures, traditions, and religions mixed. Here are some examples of that:Trans-Saharan Caravan Route, this route was active from 700 CE to 1600 CE in Ghana. Most common use of travel on this route was using a camel. This route traded goods like gold, salt, cotton, and textiles (cloth). This Route also helped Islam spread.Kilwa active from 1300 CE to 1500 CE in the city of Swahili in East coast Africa. This city traded gold frequently and participated in slave trade. They also would trade Chinese porcelain, silks, Indian spices. and Indian cloth.Indian Ocean Basin would trade gold, exotic animals, and ivory from interior Africa.Enslaved persons were also exported. And common goods would be diamonds, metals, and textiles (cloth).