Africa's great civilizations
Connected Africa to the rest of the world, allowed them to gain wealth that could be used for advancements in technology or even art for example.
In colonial education, what type of history and influences were taught?
European history was taught and was used as a way to remove the natives identities and make them more “civilized,” which meant Western.
King Leopold send him to scout out the Congo
Who was Henry Morton Stanley
What two continents was Timbuktu connected to by trade
What is Europe and the Americas
What is the Trade Fort System
Caused Europeans to increase the demand for raw materials to Colonize Africa and collect it’s natural resources
What was the Industrial Revolution
goals of the schools in colonial Africa for after decolonization
Schools in colonial Africa were used to make natives more European so after decolonization former African colonies could be integrated into a more Western world.
Profited from the rubber business and lived in Scotland
Who was John Dunlop
The colonization of most of the african continent by European powers
What is the Scramble for Africa
No single African was present at this event that decided the future of Africa
What is the Berlin Conference
Meeting at which the major European powers negotiated and formalized claims to territory in Africa.
What was the Berlin Conference
underlying purposes of European colonial education
A underlying purpose of colonial education was to create a rift between African culture and the educated Africans
Who was Cardinal Gibbons
What resource became more expensive due to the industrial revolution
Rubber
Ideas that white people are scientifically more superior than people of color.
What is scientific racism
Striking differences between the French and British imperial policies
What was imperial vs colonial policies
What did Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja mean when he said, “Anticolonial resistance in the Belgian Congo…was a resistance in which the masses?”
When Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja said, ““Anticolonial resistance in the Belgian Congo…was a resistance in which the masses,” he was countering the claim that African resistance was only because European education taught Africans of revolution and democracy in Europe and the Americas.
What was cutting off limbs
Money, Power, Competition between other european countries, Ideological beliefs
What are the 2 main goals of the creation of border by European countries
Who is G.W. Williams
The ethiopian empire had trade routes set up with the mediterranean sea, middle east and South Asia
What were international connections in pre-colonial Africa
Why was European history taught in colonial education systems rather than African history?
The colonial education systems were teaching European history rather than African history so that Africans could lose the sense of identity towards their African culture and so show a sense of respect and submit to the European people.
Amount of Congolese people estimated to have died during King Leopold's control
10 million
What 2 hardships did Africa face when Europe implemented a partition
What are the borders encouraged civil war and different ethnic groups were forced to stay together
Political rationale for military intervention and for colonization purporting to facilitate the Westernization of indigenous peoples, especially in the period from the 15th to the 20th centuries.
What is the Civilizing Mission