Georgia is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Named after King George II of Great Britain, the Colony of Georgia covered the area from South Carolina south to Spanish Florida and west to French Louisiana at the Mississippi River. Founded in 1733 as a British colony,…
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Delaware is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. The state takes its name from the nearby Delaware River named after Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, an English nobleman and Virginia’s first colonial governor. Before its coastline was explored by Europeans in the 16th century,…
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Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the United States. The state is named for the Connecticut River which approximately bisects the state. The word “Connecticut” is derived from various anglicized spellings of “Quononoquett (Conanicut),” a Mohegan-Pequot word for “long tidal river”. Connecticut’s first European settlers…
View More United States of America: ConnecticutColorado is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. The word “Colorado” comes from the Spanish word for “colored red.” The region has been inhabited by Native Americans for more than 13,000 years, with the Lindenmeier Site containing artifacts dating from approximately 9200 BCE to…
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Arizona is a state in the Western United States. Arizona is the 48th state and last of the contiguous states to be admitted to the Union, achieving statehood on February 14, 1912. Historically part of the territory of Alta California in New Spain, it became part of independent Mexico in…
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Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. The driest country in Sub-Saharan Africa, Namibia has been inhabited since early times by the San, Damara and Nama people. Around the 14th century, immigrating Bantu peoples arrived as part of the Bantu expansion. Since then, the Bantu groups,…
View More NamibiaSouth West Africa (Suidwes Afrika) was the name for modern-day Namibia when it was under South African administration, from 1915 to 1990. Previously the colony of German South West Africa from 1884–1915, it was made a League of Nations mandate of the British-ruled Union of South Africa following Germany’s defeat…
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German South West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) was a colony of the German Empire from 1884 until 1915, though Germany did not officially recognise its loss of this territory until the 1919 Treaty of Versailles. German rule over this territory was punctuated by numerous rebellions by its native African peoples, which culminated…
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Ohio is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. The state takes its name from the Ohio River, whose name in turn originated from the Seneca word ohiːyo’, meaning “good river”, “great river”, or “large creek”. Ohio arose from the lands west of Appalachia that were contested from…
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New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. New Jersey was first inhabited by Native Americans for at least 2,800 years, with the Lenape being the dominant group by the time Europeans arrived in the early 17th century. Dutch and the Swedish colonists…
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