Africa 1
name for the eastern coast where language that was Arabic and African emerged
Swahili
Raw goods to the east, manufactured goods to the south, and slaves to the west. What is this cycle called?
Triangular trade
He reigned from 1865 to 1909, was a controversial figure known for his brutal exploitation of his personal colony, established in 1885, became a site of widespread atrocities. His regime forced people into brutal labor extracting rubber and other resources. Millions died due to harsh working conditions, starvation, and violence. Leopold's reign is remembered as one of the darkest chapters in Belgian history, and his legacy is a stark reminder of the horrors of colonialism.
King Leopold
Scottish explorer/missionary
David Livingstone
Trained at Oxford
Purchased De Beers mines
Cecil Rhodes
Mansa Musa's capital
Timbuktu
In the Trans-African slave trade, these people clarifed slaves could be POWs’ and with certain rights
Islam/Muslims
What did not enable Imperialism?-
Quinine
Steamships
Automobile
Railroads
Infrastructure (telegraph, telephone)
Automobile
In the Belgian Congo, locals were required to produce ________or have their hands or feet...or those of their children
rubber sap or rubber trees
a Boer exodus away from British, came in contact with Zulu
Great Trek
The first trading Empires emerged in 300 ad. iron smelting allowed for weapons which made this place very powerful.
the first empires to emerge from trading gold and salt.
Ghana
Why did Europeans turn to Africans for slave labor in the new world?
Africans were relatively immune to European disease
They were less familairnnwith the terrain
1 National pride
National pride begets racial pride, racism
2 Economic competition
Social Darwinism- “superior societies”
3 Spreading Christianity
the alliterative short version....
"God Glory Gold"
Who did not attend the Berlin Conference?
England
France
Germany
Russia
Belgium
Russia
Southern African ethnic group descended from predominantly Dutch
Afrikaners
initially Portuguese attempted slave raiding here but soon discovered it easier to trade weapons for slaves, provided by African traders.
Dealt with several authorities besides here.
Kings of the African empire appealed (without success) to slow, not eliminate, the slave trade.
Improved slave market developed in the south.
Kongo
Portuguese sailors came into contact with the Kingdom of Kongo, which occupied vast territory along Congo River in central Africa, in 1483.
Good relations with Portuguese beginning 1483
The Kongo King;s name was...
King Nzinga Mbemba (Afonso I, r. 1506–1542)
What is not a motive of colonialism?
Social Darwinism
Industrialism
Socialism
Nationalism
Neocolonialism
Socialism
After independence, this military organization was retitled the Congolese National Army.
Force Publique
The Maji Maji rebellion was an armed rebellion against ________in East Africa, today, today’s Tanzania.
Germans
1500 bce to 1000 ce
85 million people who speak over 500 languages
migrated to the Congo
Bantu
From an early age, he experienced the horrors of slavery firsthand. But, after gaining his freedom, he gained British citizenship and wrote about his experiences..
Olaudah Equiano
this battle was an example of technological superiority
near Khartoum on the Nile
1898
Five hours of fighting
British: six gunboats, twenty machine guns
British force lost a 200 men; close to 20,000 Sudanese killed
Battle of Omdurman
Year of the Berlin Conference
1884-1885
The ancient name for Ethopia
Abyssinia