The takeover of a country or territory by a stronger nation with the intent of dominating the political, economic, and social life of the people.
What is Imperialism?
100
Mansa Musa
Who is the richest emperor known in all of history?
100
"Cradle of humanity"
What is Africa's "call to fame"?
100
Vasco da Gama
who was the first person to sail to India around cape of good hope?
100
In the 1400's Europeans needed trading points on the way to Asia
Why did explorers first explore the coast of Africa?
200
The belief that one race is superior to others
What is racism?
200
Africans did not use written history which was considered uncivilized.
Why is there a biased history of Africa?
200
East Africans abandon their city states instead of surrendering to Portuguese.
What is the decline to the East Africans city states?
200
The man who discovered the Victoria Falls and gave them a British name
Who was David Livingston?
200
West Indies/Caribbean and Brazil
where were Africans mainly brought?
300
Theory of “survival of the fittest”
What is Social Darwinism?
300
Gold and Salt
What were the main part of west Africa's economy?
300
Boers/Dutch
Who were the first to settle Cape Town?
300
Portugal
What is the first country to explore Africa?
300
Where slaves were transported from Africa to the Americas
What is considered the middle passage?
400
Britain, France, Spain, Belgium, Portugal
What are the 5 main countries that tried to take over parts of Africa?
400
Ethiopia and Eritrea
What are the East African City States?
400
Europeans try to say that white men built it and not Africans
What was the issue with the Great Zimbabwe Empire?
400
West African trading posts
What were the first trading posts in Africa?
400
Slave rebellions and French Revolution
What are the events that brought on the Abolitionist movement?
500
Meeting of 14 European nations in 1884–85 to determine rules for dividing Africa
What is the Berlin Conference?
500
a Bantu language used in east Africa
What is Swahili?
500
Slaves were very tightly packed with little food water or space
How were the living conditions like on slave ships?
500
Sub-Saharan parts of Africa
what area of Africa was not well known by Europeans so they decided to explore it?
500
15 million of Africa's strongest people were taken, weakened African government, lack of industrial revolution in Africa, gun trade in Africa, break down of African family