We take a look at the timeline to the 17th century and Europe was firmly in its Age of Exploration. The Dutch East India Company was settling on the cape Peninsula, where the Boer War would begin.

A short biography of Nelson Mandela, human rights activist and 27-year prisoner who challenged the Apartheid system in South Africa and became the country's first black president.

The joseon Kingdom would become the empire of korea. Totally independent but all knew this would be short-lived with russian and japanese imperoal interests strongly butting heads on the peninsula war would be inevitable. Japan had refromed and modernized following the example of western imperialism to carry out the ambitions of the empire would require following this example closely and so asia in the 20th century would know war

Chanda walks by herself through the South African terrain. This clip shows some geographic features of Africa, including mountains and plains.

The area today known as Texas was a part of Mexico, the US has yet adopted manifest destiny and the frontier was very much alive. Spain and France would both claim the region, but the french would be the first to settle it in the 17th century, but everyone died so the fertile plains of texas were untapped. We explore the development of this land