seduce me with your history knowledge

[vintagecongo]

The Bantu migration/expansion (view interactive map) 

Bantu is a label given to around 600 African ethnic groups who speak Bantu languages and whose ancestors migrated from West Africa about 3,000 years ago. The Bantu migration displaced many of the earlier inhabitants such as the Mbuti, Twa, Baka and Khoisan people (!kung, Ju‘|hoan, Kwadi, Khoekhoe, K’wa). 

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bantu ethnic groups make up over 80% of the population with the Luba (Baluba), Mongo and Kongo (Bakongo), Songye people making up the largest percentage and the Nilotic people (the Bari, Alur and Kakwa people) Sudanic people (such as Mangbetu, Azande, Ngbandi people) the indigenous Mbuti/Bambuti, (which is used to refer to the Sua, Efe and Asua as a collective), the Mongo Twa, Kasai Twa/Cwa, Great Lakes Twa and Baka people making up the rest of the ethnic Congolese population. (see a list of Congolese ethnic groups)

Map showing the languages of D.R.Congo (source) the map also shows the ethnic population but doesn’t include the indigenous people

Blue = people who identify as Sudanic (Adamawa-Ubangi), Green = Bantu, Pink = Nilo-Saharan, Grey - Unclassified

Other Bantu ethnic groups also include, Swahili/ Waswahili (or Muswahili = singular and Baswahili = plural as they’re called in D.R.Congo), Zulu, Kikuyu, Mbole. Lokele, Suku, Herero, Shona, Xhosa people and hundreds of others

Pre-colonial Bantu kingdoms and states include the Kongo Kingdom, Zulu kingdom, the Swahili City States (which includes Comoros, Mombasa, Zanzibar, Kilwa Kisiwani, Lamu, Pate, Malindi) Kingdom of Zimbabwe/Great Zimbabwe, Luba kingdom, Mutapa kingdom, Rozwi kingdom, Kuba kingdom, Butua kingdom, Ndongo kingdom and many others

(this isn’t meant to be a detailed post, if you want to add relevant commentary then do so)

[the-real-ted-cruz]

[rhubabby]

who decided popcorn was the official movie food

[wyvernsdreams]

I actually have a serious answer for this. Popcorn was such a cheap but highly popular in demand food, and people loved it as a treat because it was fast, buttery, and salty.  While a lot of other businesses at the time were failing because of the Great Depression, the business for production and sale of popcorn thrived because it was so cheap and popular.  When WWII came around, other snacks and candies became harder and harder to obtain due to strict rations during wartime, which only encouraged the production and sale of popcorn to compensate.  Which… no one seemed to mind.  It was a tasty treat everyone loved, and it helped out agricultural businesses and so much more. In any case, popcorn became the official movie food because movie theatres, just like many other business venues during this particular era, weren’t really doing so well with as tight as things were.  And with the popcorn business booming and its huge surge in popularity, movie theatres took advantage of the opportunity and started selling this tasty treat as concession.  Not only did the sale of popcorn in movie theatres encourage people to come and buy movie tickets, but the concession sales for popcorn just by itself was enough to keep theatres in business. Basically, popcorn is the official movie food because the popcorn industry is what kept the movie industry afloat by keeping theatres and the demand for cinema alive.

[jhameia]

how to food history

[fer1972]

[kangn-deactivated20130708]

Know where you stand.

[multicolors]

Wow

[historyandmemes]

All of Europe @ Germany post-WW1

[tareekhna]

european history

austria: shit hold on i wasn't ready

ottoman empire: shit hold on i wasn't ready

france: shit hold on i wasn't ready

russia: shit hold on i wasn't ready

prussia: i dont know whats going on but my army is on the way

[gagarin-smiles-anyway]

The Massandra Palace, residence of Emperor Alexander III of Russia, Massandra, Crimea

[bxgdanow-deactivated20170102]

if you ever think history isn’t an important subject just remember that my friend’s solution to poverty was to “just print more money”

[imjustagirllivinginherownworld]

Well isn’t it?

[bxgdanow-deactivated20170102]

tell that to the weimar republic

[transkieran]

[horrified german screaming in the distance]

[lovecastsoutfear]

Ok so many people may not know what this is about.  After World War I in Germany the country was pretty much bankrupt and on top of that they were being forced by the allies to pay restitution for the war.  In order to try to fix these problems the Weimar Republic which was the government that took over after the war decided to just print more money.  Because of this the country faced hyperinflation which basically means that everything became majorly expensive and the money was pretty much worthless. This is a picture of a man that is  literally carrying money around in a wheelbarrow because that is how much money it took to pay for things: 

These are some children playing with stacks of money because they were cheaper than toys:

And here is another:

So in short no you cannot fix poverty by printing more money.  

[sister-whaleton]

I used to think that was a solution so I’d like to thank this post for explaining it to me

[darkseid-deactivated20190806]

today i learned that the first use of “omg" occurred in 1917 in a letter to winston fucking churchill

[darkseid-deactivated20190806]

in case you think im fucking with you:

[immigra-deactivated20130728]

Why are the ‘world wars’ called the ‘world’ wars when it was only a bunch a white countries beefing over who gets to control and fuck up the world the most? Why does everything white suddenly become the world?

[princess3hunna-deactivated20130]

ah yes 

the world wars were white

remember the white countries japan, china, egypt, libya, morocco, iraq, brazil, the phillipines, thailand, vietnam, burma and ethiopia in the world wars

so white

[bravenheart-deactivated20141230]

study study study

[spectreofcommunism]

To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong

V.I. Lenin, The Junius Pamphlet, 1916 (via spectreofcommunism)

[1800snostalgia]

Mugshot of a 2-year-old Francois Bertillon, arrested for eating a basket of pears

Follow for more 1800s nostalgia

[jkottke]

Unlikely simultaneous historical events

A poster on Reddit asks: What are two events that took place in the same time in history but don’t seem like they would have?

[quantumblog]

Spain was still a fascist dictatorship when Microsoft was founded.

There were no classes in calculus in Harvard’s curriculum for the first few years because calculus hadn’t been discovered yet.

Two empires [Roman & Ottoman] spanned the entire gap from Jesus to Babe Ruth.

When the pyramids were being built, there were still woolly mammoths.

The last use of the guillotine was in France the same year Star Wars came out.

Oxford University was over 300 years old when the Aztec Empire was founded.

[seasonsmayklaine]

Pablo Picasso died the year Pink Floyd released “Dark Side of the Moon” (1973) 

Prisoners began to arrive to Auschwitz a few days after Mc'Donalds was founded. 

Coca-Cola is only 31 years younger than Italy. 

Marilyn Monroe and Queen Elizabeth II were born in the same year. 

The Ottoman empire still existed the last time the Chicago Cubs won the World Series.

[historyofromanovs]

The first wagon train of the Oregon Trail began heading out the same year the fax machine was invented.

Nintendo was founded at the same time Jack the Ripper was on the loose.

We put a man on the moon before we put wheels on a suitcase.

Oreos were invented the same year the Titanic sank.

The Mongols fought the Crusaders and the Samurais at the same time.

Cleopatra lived closer to the moon landings than she did to the building of the Pyramids of Giza.

[historicaltimes]

Three Nurses Carry Babies Cocooned in Gas Masks During a Drill. London, 1940.

via reddit

[historyandmemes]

The Cold War in a nutshell… 

[life-magazine-scrapbook]

First month of the Korean War.

Source: LIFE July 17, 1950

[z4howard]

Forever Repost every time I see it

[danielle-mertina]

Really, it isn’t $0. It’s -$ however much when you take into account that DC slave owners were given money by the government ($300/ slave) when slavery was abolished there.