Globalization
This is the movement of people, stuff, and ideas around the world.
What is globalization?
This is the resource that made the West African kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai rich.
What is gold?
This man was the king of Mali and was one of the wealthiest humans to ever live.
Who is Mansa Musa?
This is to establish complete control of a foreign state or territory.
What is colonialism?
This is the IDEA of extending a country's power and influence by force.
What is imperialism?
Buying a mango grown in Ecuador is an example of this.
What is globalization of STUFF?
This person told stories, sang songs, and kept the history of the West African kingdoms.
What is a griot?
This is a trip that every Muslim makes to the holy city of Mecca at least once in their lives.
What is a hajj?
The trans-Atlantic slave trade did this to Europe.
A small percentage of European bankers, ship captains, and slave traders were much richer.
The trans-Atlantic slave trade did this to Africa.
Left it weaker by taking its healthiest and strongest men and encouraging war between African groups fighting for more slaves.
Learning to speak Portugese from a Brazilian YouTuber is an example of this.
What is globalization of IDEAS?
Trans-Saharan trade networks went through these two regions in Africa.
What are North Africa and West Africa?
During his hajj, Mansa Musa spent his gold on these three things.
What are charities, mosques, and schools?
This was the sale of raw goods like cotton, sugar, and tobacco; the sale of finished goods like guns and beads; and the sale of slaves between Africa, the Americas, and Europe.
What is triangular trade?
Europeans came to Africa from the 1600s to 1900s to help make life better for these people.
Who are other Europeans and definitely not Africans?
These things are what make globalization possible.
What is transportation technology like cars, boats, and planes and computer technology like laptops, smart phones, and the internet?
These were North Africans who controlled salt mines and were very good at crossing the Sahara.
Who were the Berbers?
He donated so much gold to the poor that he crashed the Egyptian economy.
These were the people who were enslaving, buying and selling Africans in the 1600s and 1700s.
What are Africans AND Europeans?
Slavery in Africa was different from slavery in the Americas for these two reasons.
What is African slaves could earn their freedom and were protected by law from being harmed?
These are the two main types of ideas that are spread through globalization.
What are culture and knowledge?
As a result of this, West African kingdoms were introduced to a new religion and language, had more money, and learned a lot more about almost every subject.
What is trans-Saharan trade?
Overall, between the years 500 CE and 1600 CE, this was good for West Africa and helped it grow richer, more powerful, and more connected.
What is globalization (like the trans-Saharan trade and Mansa Musa's hajj)?
These two things are the result of colonialism and imperialism in Africa.
What is re-drew the borders starting war between different groups of people and left Africa with less wealth than before?
When Europeans in London or Paris chose to buy sugar from the grocery store in the 1700s, they were supporting this.
What is slavery?