#congos caper

[swiftsmash]

Join Congo as he embarks on a platforming journey filled with excitement in this captivating GamePlay video! 🎮🦖

[nintendometro]

Run! 'Congo's Caper' Super Nintendo

[oldgamemags]

An Evolution Revolution ‘Congo’s Caper’ Super Nintendo

[viciogame]

🎮 Joe & Mac 2 (Super Nintendo)

Complete Gameplay: https://youtu.be/3ArZzvYdVMo

#JoeAndMac #SNES #SuperNintendo #SuperNes #SuperFamicom #Nintendo #JoeAndMac2 #JoeAndMac3 #CongosCaper #DataEast #ニンテンドー #スーパーファミコン #戦え原始人 #Caveman #Ninja #CavemanNinja #戦え原始人2 #戦え原始人3 #Viciogame #Gameplay #Walkthrough #Playthrough #Longplay #LetsPlay

[hellman55]

Congo's Caper | SNES | 4K60ᶠᵖˢ UHD🔴 | Longplay Gameplay Walkthrough Full Movie Game

[fatehbaz]

In 1678, a Chaldean priest from Baghdad reached the Imperial Villa of Potosí, the world’s richest silver-mining camp and at the time the world’s highest city at more than 4,000 metres (13,100 feet) above sea level. A regional capital in the heart of the Bolivian Andes, Potosí remains – more than three and a half centuries later – a mining city today. [...] The great red Cerro Rico or ‘Rich Hill�� towered over the city of Potosí. It had been mined since 1545 [...]. When Don Elias arrived [...], the great boom of 1575-1635 – when Potosí alone produced nearly half the world’s silver – was over, but the mines were still yielding the precious metal. [...]

On Potosí’s main market plaza, indigenous and African women served up maize beer, hot soup and yerba mate. Shops displayed the world’s finest silk and linen fabrics, Chinese porcelain, Venetian glassware, Russian leather goods, Japanese lacquerware, Flemish paintings and bestselling books in a dozen languages. [...]

Pious or otherwise, wealthy women clicked Potosí’s cobbled streets in silver-heeled platform shoes, their gold earrings, chokers and bracelets studded with Indian diamonds and Burmese rubies. Colombian emeralds and Caribbean pearls were almost too common. Peninsular Spanish ‘foodies’ could savour imported almonds, capers, olives, arborio rice, saffron, and sweet and dry Castilian wines. Black pepper arrived from Sumatra and southwest India, cinnamon from Sri Lanka, cloves from Maluku and nutmeg from the Banda Islands. Jamaica provided allspice. Overloaded galleons spent months transporting these luxuries across the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic oceans. Plodding mule and llama trains carried them up to the lofty Imperial Villa.

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Potosi supplied the world with silver, the lifeblood of trade and sinews of war [...]. In turn, the city consumed the world’s top commodities and manufactures. [...] The city’s dozen-plus notaries worked non-stop inventorying silver bars and sacks of pesos [...]. Mule trains returning from the Pacific brought merchandise and mercury, the essential ingredient for silver refining. [...] From Buenos Aires came slavers with captive Africans from Congo and Angola, transshipped via Rio de Janeiro. Many of the enslaved were children branded with marks mirroring those, including the royal crown, inscribed on silver bars.

Soon after its 1545 discovery, Potosí gained world renown [...]. Mexico’s many mining camps [...] peaked only after 1690. [...] Even in the Andes of South America there were other silver cities [...]. But no silver deposit in the world matched the Cerro Rico, and no other mining-refining conglomeration grew so large. Potosí was unique: a mining metropolis.

Thus Don Elias, like others, made the pilgrimage to the silver mountain. It was a divine prodigy, a hierophany. In 1580, Ottoman artists depicted Potosí as a slice of earthly paradise, the Cerro Rico lush and green, the city surrounded by crenellated walls. Potosí, as Don Quixote proclaimed, was the stuff of dreams. Another alms seeker, in 1600, declared the Cerro Rico the Eighth Wonder of the World. A [...] visitor in 1615 gushed: ‘Thanks to its mines, Castile is Castile, Rome is Rome, the pope is the pope, and the king is monarch of the world.’ [...]

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For all its glory, Potosí was also the stuff of nightmares [...].

Almost a century before Don Elias visited Potosí, Viceroy Francisco de Toledo revolutionised world silver production. Toledo was a hard-driving bureaucrat of the Spanish empire [...]. Toledo reached Potosí in 1572, anxious to flip it into the empire’s motor of commerce and war. By 1575, the viceroy had organised a sweeping labour draft, launched a ‘high-tech’ mill-building campaign, and overseen construction of a web of dams and canals to supply the Imperial Villa with year-round hydraulic power, all in the high Andes at the nadir of the Little Ice Age. Toledo also oversaw construction of the Potosí mint, staffed full-time with enslaved Africans. [...] Toledo’s successes came with a steep price. Thanks to the viceroy’s ‘reforms’, hundreds of thousands of Andeans became virtual refugees (those who survived) and, in the search for timber and fuel, colonists denuded hundreds of miles of fragile, high-altitude land. [...] The city’s smelteries belched lead and zinc-rich smoke [...].

The Habsburg kings of Spain cared little about Potosí’s social and environmental horrors. [...] For more than a century, the Cerro Rico fuelled the world’s first global military-industrial complex, granting Spain the means to prosecute decades-long wars on a dozen fronts – on land and at sea. No one else could do all this and still afford to lose. [...]

By [...] 1909 [...], mineral rushes had helped to produce cities such as San Francisco and Johannesburg, but nothing quite compared for sheer audacity with the Imperial Villa of Potosí, a neo-medieval mining metropolis perched in the Andes of South America.

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Text by: Kris Lane. “Potosi: the mountain of silver that was the first global city.” Aeon. 30 July 2019. [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me.]

[sightandhearing]

fyeahblackhistory:

100 things that you did not know about Africa - Nos.1 - 25

1. The human race is of African origin. The oldest known skeletal remains of anatomically modern humans (or homo sapiens) were excavated at sites in East Africa. Human remains were discovered at Omo in Ethiopia that were dated at 195,000 years old, the oldest known in the world. 2. Skeletons of pre-humans have been found in Africa that date back between 4 and 5 million years. The oldest known ancestral type of humanity is thought to have been the australopithecus ramidus, who lived at least 4.4 million years ago. 3. Africans were the first to organise fishing expeditions 90,000 years ago. At Katanda, a region in northeastern Zaïre (now Congo), was recovered a finely wrought series of harpoon points, all elaborately polished and barbed. Also uncovered was a tool, equally well crafted, believed to be a dagger. The discoveries suggested the existence of an early aquatic or fishing based culture. 4. Africans were the first to engage in mining 43,000 years ago. In 1964 a hematite mine was found in Swaziland at Bomvu Ridge in the Ngwenya mountain range. Ultimately 300,000 artefacts were recovered including thousands of stone-made mining tools. Adrian Boshier, one of the archaeologists on the site, dated the mine to a staggering 43,200 years old. 5. Africans pioneered basic arithmetic 25,000 years ago. The Ishango bone is a tool handle with notches carved into it found in the Ishango region of Zaïre (now called Congo) near Lake Edward. The bone tool was originally thought to have been over 8,000 years old, but a more sensitive recent dating has given dates of 25,000 years old. On the tool are 3 rows of notches. Row 1 shows three notches carved next to six, four carved next to eight, ten carved next to two fives and finally a seven. The 3 and 6, 4 and 8, and 10 and 5, represent the process of doubling. Row 2 shows eleven notches carved next to twenty-one notches, and nineteen notches carved next to nine notches. This represents 10 + 1, 20 + 1, 20 - 1 and 10 - 1. Finally, Row 3 shows eleven notches, thirteen notches, seventeen notches and nineteen notches. 11, 13, 17 and 19 are the prime numbers between 10 and 20. 6. Africans cultivated crops 12,000 years ago, the first known advances in agriculture. Professor Fred Wendorf discovered that people in Egypt’s Western Desert cultivated crops of barley, capers, chick-peas, dates, legumes, lentils and wheat. Their ancient tools were also recovered. There were grindstones, milling stones, cutting blades, hide scrapers, engraving burins, and mortars and pestles. 7. Africans mummified their dead 9,000 years ago. A mummified infant was found under the Uan Muhuggiag rock shelter in south western Libya. The infant was buried in the foetal position and was mummified using a very sophisticated technique that must have taken hundreds of years to evolve. The technique predates the earliest mummies known in Ancient Egypt by at least 1,000 years. Carbon dating is controversial but the mummy may date from 7438 (±220) BC. 8. Africans carved the world’s first colossal sculpture 7,000 or more years ago. The Great Sphinx of Giza was fashioned with the head of a man combined with the body of a lion. A key and important question raised by this monument was: How old is it? In October 1991 Professor Robert Schoch, a geologist from Boston University, demonstrated that the Sphinx was sculpted between 5000 BC and 7000 BC, dates that he considered conservative. 9. On the 1 March 1979, the New York Times carried an article on its front page also page sixteen that was entitled Nubian Monarchy called Oldest. In this article we were assured that: “Evidence of the oldest recognizable monarchy in human history, preceding the rise of the earliest Egyptian kings by several generations, has been discovered in artifacts from ancient Nubia” (i.e. the territory of the northern Sudan and the southern portion of modern Egypt.) 10. The ancient Egyptians had the same type of tropically adapted skeletal proportions as modern Black Africans. A 2003 paper appeared in American Journal of Physical Anthropology by Dr Sonia Zakrzewski entitled Variation in Ancient Egyptian Stature and Body Proportions where she states that: “The raw values in Table 6 suggest that Egyptians had the ‘super-Negroid’ body plan described by Robins (1983). The values for the brachial and crural indices show that the distal segments of each limb are longer relative to the proximal segments than in many ‘African’ populations.”

11. The ancient Egyptians had Afro combs. One writer tells us that the Egyptians “manufactured a very striking range of combs in ivory: the shape of these is distinctly African and is like the combs used even today by Africans and those of African descent.” 12. The Funerary Complex in the ancient Egyptian city of Saqqara is the oldest building that tourists regularly visit today. An outer wall, now mostly in ruins, surrounded the whole structure. Through the entrance are a series of columns, the first stone-built columns known to historians. The North House also has ornamental columns built into the walls that have papyrus-like capitals. Also inside the complex is the Ceremonial Court, made of limestone blocks that have been quarried and then shaped. In the centre of the complex is the Step Pyramid, the first of 90 Egyptian pyramids. 13. The first Great Pyramid of Giza, the most extraordinary building in history, was a staggering 481 feet tall - the equivalent of a 40-storey building. It was made of 2.3 million blocks of limestone and granite, some weighing 100 tons. 14. The ancient Egyptian city of Kahun was the world’s first planned city. Rectangular and walled, the city was divided into two parts. One part housed the wealthier inhabitants – the scribes, officials and foremen. The other part housed the ordinary people. The streets of the western section in particular, were straight, laid out on a grid, and crossed each other at right angles. A stone gutter, over half a metre wide, ran down the centre of every street. 15. Egyptian mansions were discovered in Kahun - each boasting 70 rooms, divided into four sections or quarters. There was a master’s quarter, quarters for women and servants, quarters for offices and finally, quarters for granaries, each facing a central courtyard. The master’s quarters had an open court with a stone water tank for bathing. Surrounding this was a colonnade. 16 The Labyrinth in the Egyptian city of Hawara with its massive layout, multiple courtyards, chambers and halls, was the very largest building in antiquity. Boasting three thousand rooms, 1,500 of them were above ground and the other 1,500 were underground. 17. Toilets and sewerage systems existed in ancient Egypt. One of the pharaohs built a city now known as Amarna. An American urban planner noted that: “Great importance was attached to cleanliness in Amarna as in other Egyptian cities. Toilets and sewers were in use to dispose waste. Soap was made for washing the body. Perfumes and essences were popular against body odour. A solution of natron was used to keep insects from houses … Amarna may have been the first planned ‘garden city’.” 18. Sudan has more pyramids than any other country on earth - even more than Egypt. There are at least 223 pyramids in the Sudanese cities of Al Kurru, Nuri, Gebel Barkal and Meroë. They are generally 20 to 30 metres high and steep sided. 19. The Sudanese city of Meroë is rich in surviving monuments. Becoming the capital of the Kushite Empire between 590 BC until AD 350, there are 84 pyramids in this city alone, many built with their own miniature temple. In addition, there are ruins of a bath house sharing affinities with those of the Romans. Its central feature is a large pool approached by a flight of steps with waterspouts decorated with lion heads. 20. Bling culture has a long and interesting history. Gold was used to decorate ancient Sudanese temples. One writer reported that: “Recent excavations at Meroe and Mussawwarat es-Sufra revealed temples with walls and statues covered with gold leaf”. 21. In around 300 BC, the Sudanese invented a writing script that had twenty-three letters of which four were vowels and there was also a word divider. Hundreds of ancient texts have survived that were in this script. Some are on display in the British Museum. 22. In central Nigeria, West Africa’s oldest civilisation flourished between 1000 BC and 300 BC. Discovered in 1928, the ancient culture was called the Nok Civilisation, named after the village in which the early artefacts were discovered. Two modern scholars, declare that “[a]fter calibration, the period of Nok art spans from 1000 BC until 300 BC”. The site itself is much older going back as early as 4580 or 4290 BC. 23. West Africans built in stone by 1100 BC. In the Tichitt-Walata region of Mauritania, archaeologists have found “large stone masonry villages” that date back to 1100 BC. The villages consisted of roughly circular compounds connected by “well-defined streets”. 24. By 250 BC, the foundations of West Africa’s oldest cities were established such as Old Djenné in Mali. 25. Kumbi Saleh, the capital of Ancient Ghana, flourished from 300 to 1240 AD. Located in modern day Mauritania, archaeological excavations have revealed houses, almost habitable today, for want of renovation and several storeys high. They had underground rooms, staircases and connecting halls. Some had nine rooms. One part of the city alone is estimated to have housed 30,000 people.

By Robin Walker 

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[xolta]

recommended games list Part 2

Xolta's Big old recommended games list Part 2 gen 4 edition

Gameboy: Pokemon Red, Blue, yellow(Monster raising rpg) Dargon Quest monsters(monster raising rpg) Adventures of Lolo(puzzle) Tetris(puzzle) Centipede & millipede(arcade/ the music goes so hard) Donkey Kong 94(arcade platformer) Donkey Kong Land(platformer) Game & Watch Gallery 1-3(mixed bag) Kirby's Dream Land 1&2 (platformer) Pokemon trading card game(tgc) Quarth(shoot em up puzzle hybrid) Revenge of the 'Gator (pinball) Super Mario Land 1&2(Platformer) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Radical Rescue (metroidvania) Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3(GREED) Metroid 2 samus returns(metroidvania)

Game gear: Devilish(arcade) Gunstar Heroes (run and gun) Pengo(puzzle) Power Strike II (shump) Sonic Triple Trouble(platformer) Tails Adventure(metroidvania)

Lynx: Battle Wheels(combat racing) S.T.U.N. Runner(racing)

Genesis/megadrive/Cd/32x: Alien Soldier(run and gun) Alisia Dragoon(Platformer) Beyond Oasis(Action adventure) Burning Force(rail force) Castlevania Bloodlines(platformer) Enteral Champions(fighting) Columns III(puzzle) Comix Zone (beat em up) Contra: Hard Corps (run and gun) Crusader of Centy(adventure/ zelda like) Decap Attack(platformer) Sonic Cd(platformer) Android Assault(shoot em up) Lords of Thunder (shoot em up) Shining Force CD (Srpg) Snatcher(Adventure/interactive comic movie thingy) Dynamite Headdy(platformer) Elemental Master (shoot em up) Gunstar Heroes(run and gun) Jurassic Park and rampage edition(dinosaurs/dumb fun) Landstalker (action rpg) Mega Turrican(action platformer) Forbiden worlds( shoot em up) M.U.S.H.A. ( shoot em up) Outrun 2019 (raceing) Phantasy Star 3 (prg) Phantasy star 4(rpg) Sonic 1-3(platformer) Punisher (beat em up) Mortal Kombat 1-3(fighting) Road Rash(combat racing) Rocket Knight Adventures (platformer) Streets if rage 1&2(beat em ups) Strider (platformer) Super Hang-On(racing)Snow Bros(Platfromer) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist (beat em up) Shinboi 3(platformer) Thunder force 3(shoot em up) Virtua Racing (racing) X men(platformer)

Zero wing(shump/memes) king of the monsters 1 & 2(kaiju fighting)

Super Nintendo/ Super Famicom: F zero(racing) Super mario world(platfromer) Crono Trigger(rpg) Terranigma(rpg) Breath of Fire(rpg) Congo's Caper(platformer) Mortal Kombat 1-3(fighting) The Lost Vikings (puzzel platformer) Primal Rage(fighting) Evo Search for Eden(rpg) ActRaiser (god sim/ action platfromer) ActRaiser 2 (action platformer no god sim sadly) Arkanoid: Doh it Again (barkeout clone) Axelay (shoot em up) Batman Returns (beat em up) Biker Mice From Mars(racing) Contra 3(run and gun) Sparkster(platformer) Demon's Crest(platformer) Donkey Kong Country 1-3(platformer) Mega man X `1-3(platformer) Megaman 7(platformer) Doom Troopers (run and gun) Doom (fps) Illusion of Gaia(action rpg) Joe & Mac (platfromer) Judge Dredd (i am the law em up) Killer Instinct(fighting) Kirby's Avalanche (puzzle) Kirby's Dream Land 3 (platformer) Kirby super star(platformer) Super mario rpg(rpg) Marvel Super Heroes: War of the Gems (beat em up) Metal Warriors (mecha action) Yoshis safari(light gun) Battle Clash 1&2(light gun) Jacki Crush(pinball) Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers(beat em up) Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: The Fighting (Fighting) king of the monsters 1 & 2(kaiju fighting) Pocky & Rocky(run and gun) Secret of Mana(action rpg) SimCity (sim) Sonic Blast Man II (beat em up/ kinda trash but fun trash) Star Fox 1&2(3d rail shooter) Stunt race fx(racing/kinda lag fest) Sunset Riders(cowboys) Super Bomberman games (bomber man) Super castlevania 4(action platformer) Castlevania Darcula X(action platformer/botched port) Super Mario All-Stars (collection) Yoshis island(platformer) Super Metroid(metroidvania) Super Punch-Out (boxing) Super Street Fighter II turbo(fighting) Street fighter Alpha 1&2(fighting/impressive port for the system) Tetris Attack (puzzle) Tmnt 4: Turtles in Time(beat em up) Magical quest staring mickey mouse(boner wizard em up) The Legend of the Mystical Ninja (adventure platformer) Zelda Link to the past(adventure) The Ninja Warriors (beat em up) Wild Guns(run and gun) X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse (beat em up) Der Langrisser(Sprg) Dragon Ball Z - Hyper Dimension(fighting) Front Mission: Gun Hazard (rub and gun) Godzilla: Monster War(kaiju fighting)

Turbo Graph 16/pc engine/cd: Air Zonk (shump) Alien Crush(pinball) Blazing Lazers (shump) Bonk adventure(platformer) Devil's Crush(pinball) The Legendary Axe (platformer) Castlevania: Rondo of Blood(platformer)

[gamewtfs]

Night and day, you are the one an adorable chimpanzee.

[thebestchatman]

Congo’s Caper!!! I love this game.

[cwgames]

I have never seen this game before but I have seen JonTron review it before. This Super Nintendo game was also made by Data East.

[nintendometro]

Swinging Around 'Congo's Caper' Super Nintendo

[narutodvs]

Inktober Day 27: Congo’s Caper...Old Snes game really fun to play =D

[viciogame]

🎮 Congo's Caper (Super Nintendo)

Complete Gameplay: https://youtu.be/7ldVYFMFbQQ

#Viciogame #CongosCaper #SNES #Gameplay #戦え原始人2ルーキーの冒険 #JoeAndMac #prehistory #Walkthrough #ルーキーの冒険 #SuperNes #jurassic #Playthrough #戦え原始人 #SuperFamicom #スーパーファミコン #DataEast #dinosaurs #Longplay #戦え原始人2 #Nintendo #dinosaur #LetsPlay #ニンテンドー #SuperNintendo #CavemanNinja

[hellman55]

Congo's Caper (SNES) Playthrough