Early Africa
Driest desert in the World
What is the Sahara?
a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force
What is Imperialism?
This was the decade of the Scramble for Africa.
1880's
Ruler of The Congo Free State
Leopold II of Belgium
Initially, merchants supplied the Dutch ships that passed the Cape on their way to Asia, these people eventually settled and became farmers in the region
The Boers
The transport of slaves from Africa to the new world. What stands out about this leg of the Atlantic slave trade system where the incredibly harsh conditions.
The middle passage
King who was probably the richest man in history
Who was Mansa Musa?
the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same laws of natural selection as plants and animals. Was used to justify political conservatism, imperialism, and racism and to discourage intervention and reform.
What is Social Darwinism?
1884-1885 This event regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period and coincided with Germany's sudden emergence as an imperial power.
The Berlin Conference
The most important natural resource the Congo provided
Rubber
A graduate of Oriole College in Oxford, this gentleman would use the proceeds from diamond mines to establish his own colony in South Africa
Cecil Rhodes
The transfer of slaves to the new world to harvest raw materials which would then be shipped back to the old world to create manufactured goods which would then be sold to African leaders
Triangular trade
Timbuktu became the cultural capital of the world as a result of this Empire's immense wealth.
Mali
Name 3 inventions/discoveries that enabled the Europeans to colonize Africa
What are: Quanine, Steam Engine, Telegraph, Maxim Machine Gun, etc?
This term was used to describe the regions that European powers controlled in Africa.
spheres of influence
This military force of the Belgian Congo and previously the Congo free state was not meant to secure safety but to police the enslaved people in the region
the Force Publique
Displaced from their land, these settlers in the region were forced by the British to retreat to the interiors of Africa, eventually coming into contact with the Zulu. What is the name of this event?
The Great Trek
Rules of the African slave trade prior to the Atlantic slave trade followed guidelines from this sacred text.
The Quran
This was specifically how the Kingdom of Ghana became so wealthy.
Taxing Goods along the gold salt trade route (It is insufficient to simply say "gold salt trade route")
Three specific motives for Imperialism.
What is National Pride; Economic competition; spreading Christianity (Commerce, Civilization, Christianity)
Henry Morton Stanley was looking for David Livingston. This profession led David Livingston into the interiors of Africa where he got lost
He was a missionary.
How many (or what percentage) of Congolese people died between 1880 and 1920?
Provide either a percentage or number within 100,000
10-20 million. Or 50% of the population.
These people were of both Dutch and British descent.
Africanners
These Europeans initially worked with the African leadership of Western Africa to secure slaves before the Atlantic slave trade system
The Portuguese
The Bantu migration took place over how many years?
You need to be within 300 years.
2,500.
from 1500 BCE to 1000 CE
Rudyard Kipling wrote the famous imperialist poem White Man's Burden as encouragement for the United States to declare war against Spain and claim (name at least two territories that belong to the Spanish that the United States would gain)
Fiji Guam Samoa Puerto Rico the Philippines
In searching for David Livingston, Henry Morton Stanley was one of the first Europeans to gays upon this lake. Of course he declared that he discovered it.
Lake Victoria
In 1908, King Leopold sold his colony to...
Belgium
The name of the diamond mine that Cecil Rhodes purchased from a Dutch miner.
De Beers
Author of the only autobiographical account of the Atlantic slave trade system
Oludiah Equiano