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Title: Africa


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Africa
  • History

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Early Civilizations
  • Bantu migrations2000 B.C., Bantu spread from
    southeastern Nigeria
  • land shortage may have sent them south spreading
    language, culture
  • Migrations created cultural diversity, but
    languages link continent
  • forms of Bantu spoken by 120 million Africans
    today
  • East Africa-Aksum
  • Present day Ethiopia in A.D. 100s
  • Traded with the Eastern Roman Empire and Egypt

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Three Trading Empires of West Africa
  • Ghana, Mali, Songhai empires grow on Sahara trade
    routes (gold, salt)
  • Taxed traders using their routes
  • Morocco invades in 1591 taking over the region

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The Slave Trade
  • Europeans wanted slaves for plantations in
    Americas
  • In 1400s, Portugal established a trading port
  • slave traders exchange guns, goods for captive
    Africans
  • Many African rulers sold slaves to other
    Africans, Arabs, Europeans
  • By end of trade in 1870, millions had been taken
    to Americas, Europe

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Colonization
  • Until mid-1800s, Europeans dont move far inland
  • 19th-century Europeans seek African resources
  • 188485 Berlin Conference divides Africa African
    input denied
  • By the early 1900s most of Africa is divided into
    European colonies
  • Exceptions Liberia and Ethiopia

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Effects of Colonization
  • Belgium, France colonize region most countries
    independent by 1960s
  • European borders disrupt traditional governments,
    ethnic regions
  • new governments face diverse populations, corrupt
    leaders
  • Economic Effects
  • Lost resources cultural, ethnic oppression of
    people
  • Little infrastructure or money for
    transportation, education systems

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