Pre-Colonial Africa
This pre-colonial west African Kingdoms was well known for its vast network of trade in Gold and Salt across the Sahara Desert.
What is Ghana, Mali, or Songhai?
This is the word we use for growth in cities.
What is Urbanization?
This is a country or territory governed internally by a foreign power.
What is a colony?
This is the idea of survival of the "fittest", leading Europeans to believe they are superior to "less evolved" civilizations.
What is Social Darwinism?
This was the richest man in the world, and considered to be the best Kind of Mali.
Who is Mansa Musa?
This West African city was known for its grand cultural, religious, and economic center.
What is Timbuktu?
The industrial revolution started here, due to its geographic, social, and economic advantages.
What is England/Britain?
This meeting was held by 14 European powers who wanted to determine how they were going to divide up Africa without fighting. Too bad African leaders weren't invited.
What is the Berlin Conference?
For Western Powers, Imperialism was about the 3 C's:
What is Commerce, Civilization, and Christianity?
This Muslim traveler and scholar wrote a travel log, which taught historians about pre-colonial Africa.
Who is Ibn Battuta?
This dynamic culture is a blend of African, Arab, and Asian linguistic and cultural elemets.
Poor working and living conditions, unequal social classes, and growth in cities were all a result this.
What is industrialization?
This type of control is seen when colonial powers would rule through existing local leaders and institutions, rather than direct administration by foreign powers.
What is indirect control?
This is a policy in which a nation forces or encourages a subject people to adopt its culture and ways (such as schools, language, courts, businesses that follow the systems of an invading country)
What is Assimilation?
This King is the reason that Europeans decided to hold the Berlin Conference to divide up Africa.
Who is King Leopold of Belgium?
What is Great Zimbabwe?
To raise money, entrepreneurs sold stock. People who bought stock would become part owners in this business model.
What is a corporation?
In the 1400s, this country did not initially stake claim to African soil to colonize. They took over hubs of the East African trade, sometimes by force.
Who are the Portuguese?
This type of control is where an area in which an outside power claims exclusive investment or trading privileges.
This king of Songhai did not adopt Islam and instead kept it's nations traditional religious beliefs.
Who is Sonni Ali?
This empire became isolated as it remained Christian despite Islam spreading around it throughout Africa.
What is Axum or Ethiopia?
This invention of the Industrial Revolution was one of the first to power stationary factories like textile mills, and later was used for locomotives.
What is Watt's Steam Engine?
This country was the first to reach Africa's interior and establish a colony, kicking of the scramble for Africa.
What is Belgium?
This is a country or territory with its own internal government but under the control of an outside power.
What is a protectorate?
This Portuguese prince has been mentioned in both Unit 2 and 3 and is known for being a famous explorer, and was the first to explore the African Coast in 1400 by trying to find an easier way to Asia.
Who is Henry the Navigator?