zomba, Zanzibar haikuwahi kuitawala Oman. Oman ilihamishia tu utawala wake Zanzibar na sio utumbo ulioandika pale. Tofauti yako na Mulugo ni majina tu, lakini kichwani kwako hamna kitu. Ukikaa na wanao we wafundishe wakajibu hivyo kwenye mtihani kuwa Zanzibar iliitawala Oman halafu ujiandae kumnunia Ndalichako utadhani yeye ndio aliwafundisha ujinga watoto wako.
Mwarabu alitawala sana akili zenu sasa hamwezi kufikiri nje ya utawala wake. Watumwa watiifu
Mnaambiwa someni hamtaki, ipate zenj kidogo hapa, wewe hata neno Zanzibar limetoka wapi hujui:
CHRONOLOGY OF ZANZIBAR
BC I
AD I
Chinese Visit I
Arrival of Alawis I
Ibn Batuta I
Vasco da Gama I
Francis Drake I
Omanis defeat Portuguese I
Albusaid Dynasty begins I
Said bin Sultan born I Livinstone born I
Omanis in Zanzibar I
Stanley born I
Seyyid Said dies I
UMCA arrive Zanzibar I
Majid dies I
Livingstone dies I
Alawi dynasty ends I
Germans arrive EA I
Barghash dies I
British Protectorate I
Bombardment I
Stanley dies I
Slavery Abolished I
WWI begins I
Revolution
B.C.
1000 BC For the last three thousand years at least, sailors and traders from Arabia and the Persian Gulf used the north east monsoon winds (from mid December until the end of February and called "Kaskazi" - they herald the long or "Masika" rains) to voyage to the east coast of Africa bringing knives, spears, metalwork, beads and later firearms.
Between April and September, the south west monsoon (called the "Kusi", which brings the short, or "Vuli" rains) blew the sailors back again across two thousand miles of the Indian Ocean, carrying their cargoes of gold, tortoise-shell, ivory and slaves.
700 BC The first mention of the land of "Zinj". This was controlled by the Sabaean kingdom of Saba or Sheba whose queen visited Solomon and marvelled at his wealth. The Sabaeans were a maritime people, the descendants of Joktan (Genesis 10: 26-9) who lived in Southern Arabia. They dominated the carrying trade of the east, controlling the spice trade and supplying the eastern world with gold, slaves, tortoise-shell, ambergris, ebony and ivory, brought in dhows from the coast of Zinj to Arabia.
The Sabaean kingdom lasted until the 1st century B.C. when the Indian trade ceased to be carried by sea and went by land. Their decline was speeded by a disaster to the great dam which irrigated the country. The whole land dried up and the capital city, Marib, became a ruin.
45 BC Hippalus the Egyptian revealed the existence of the monsoons and trade winds to the world and gave the West the key to the East. The Phoenicians, the Arabs, the Persians and the Hindus had kept their knowledge of these winds secret for centuries.
At about this time certain African tribes from the mainland made small separate settlements on Unguja and Pemba. They crossed over to the islands in their dug-out outrigger canoes - similar to the ngalawas of today. They were taller than the present day people and they worshipped trees and the sun.
100 BC An anonymous seafarer wrote the "Periplus of the Erythraean Sea", or Circumnavigation of the Indian Ocean. This is probably the earliest firsthand account of the East African coast to have survived and it mentions an island called "Menouthias", off the shores of Azania. This may have been Pemba.
Source:
Zanzibar - Chronology
Ukimaliza sema nikuongeze, hiyo ya juu nimekupa ujuwe kuwa Zenj Empire ilikuwepo kabla ya ujio wa wa Oman.
