Not too long ago, Africa was a country of wealth, attracting many European countries. However, the wealth did not come without a cost. Europeans had little knowledge of Africa because of the dangers of disease such as malaria. Europeans did not explore Africa either because they only needed Africa for slaves. After slavery was outlawed, Europeans decided to explore more of Africa.…
From as early as 863 C.E. the first interactions of Asian and African cultures have been documented, with the Chinese explorer Duan Chengshi, Arab trader al-Mas’udi and later Zheng He, an admiral for the Ming Dynasty, traveling to parts of Africa. I was able to gain knowledge of the two interacting, trading with one another and the influence it had…
Predominantly the African continent also did not have any forms of sophisticated governments causing no negotiations or counter offers to be made to the muslim superiors. Having no centralized governments caused tribes to appear scattered and discombobulated showing once again no defense against their…
Ancient Africa has had many achievements over the years and these are what made Africa strong and powerful. From gaining wealth to upgrading their army, and making more farms, these all helped to make Africa stronger and more powerful. And here are the achievements of Africa ……….. One of Africa's achievements is that Africa had many trade routes going through it so that meant more people would buy their goods and help them to gain wealth. For example, in document 8 there were trade routes connecting Kilwa, Zimbabwe, Sofala, Mombasa, Malindi, Mogadishu, Aksum, Lalibela, Zelia, Jidda, Aden, Calicut, and Muscat.…
Jared Diamond, in Chapter 19 of the novel Guns, Germs, and Steel, proposes that the black Bantu ethnic group was able to exert dominance over the other four cultural groups in Africa in areas that food production was viable because the Bantu’s sedentary lifestyle was greatly advantaged compared to hunter-gatherers living in the same area. Diamond supports his claims by illustrating the major societal and organizational difference between the Bantu and hunter-gatherer groups and pointing to the methods by which the Bantu expansion was carried out. The author’s purpose is to show what environmental factors led to certain peoples asserting dominance over others in order to support his theory about geographic determinism and refute racist explanations about the fates of human societies. The author writes in a logical scientific tone for an educated and intellectually honest audience. The factors all come together to allow Diamond to create a convincing argument about the factors that led to the Bantu expansion in Africa.…
One huge result of this trade was the introduction of Islam to the West African…
Effect of European Control The large continent of Africa is the home to many African tribes. Africa has many resources that other countries desire to have for themselves. During 1884, these European countries met at what was called the Berlin Conference, where they discussed how they were going to divide the continent up between themselves. They gave no say to the people living in Africa.…
Being the center of trade, West Africa had many connections to the Islamic trade networks, meaning that they had access to many trade routes and could make even more money off of trade. There were many stories of the overflowing amounts of gold in Mali, and that attracted merchants and traders from all over…
What was the main cause of the European Imperialism in Africa? The European imperialism lasted over 300 years from 1500’s to the 1800’s. It started to change in the 1800’s because as European explorers took over and pushed their way to the interior and central Africa. By the 1880’s Africa was taken by the European settlers. Some reasons the Europeans wanted Africa because they have a lot of good natural resources.…
The Africans were the first to race who accepted Islam which changed The West African Kingdom greatly. West African Muslims created school, the teachers and students used the Arabic language for reading, writing, and possibly…
The subject of Judith Carney’s one section of The Journal of African History is about how and where rice came from in the Americas, and the contribution African indigenous rice cultivation played in shaping the food/economic systems of the New World. The problem Carney propels in her paper is that very little attention was given to African plant domesticates, which played a huge role in the Columbian Exchange. her main argument is that Africans are the main agent of the rice coming to the Americas, but they are not given the credit for bringing rice and the cultivation method in the Americas. The structure of the reading is chronological, because she starts off with the plants grown in Africa, diffusion of plants during slave trade, domestication…
The District Commissioner represents European ignorance of African culture and society. The fact that he uses the term “pacification,” implies that the native African population is a savage and untamable one, and that he is a conquering hero that has domesticated these beasts. On the matter of the other missionaries in relation to the District Commissioner, there are some similarities although they aren’t truly comparable. Mr. Brown is the first missionary that is sent to Umuofia. He takes the peaceful route and does not attempt to force the Umuofians to convert to Christianity, but instead respects their culture, allowing them to choose to convert by their own will.…
Coastal African kingdoms increased their riches by sell of men that they had captured for free, it produced high profits for little economic resources. This increased the amount of money in circulation in Africa and increased their economic interactions with Europe who bought the slaves form the coastal kingdoms. African society’s marriage changed from marriages between two people to marriages of one man and many women, this occurred as a result of a lack of availability of men due to the slave trade capturing and taking young African men who would have been marrying. In parts of the Americas new social groups were created as a result of the new contacts in the…
One of the main reasons the Europeans took over the land was for the good trading and resources in Africa. There were many important resources in Africa that would be useful to the Europeans, like cotton, gold, rubber, sisal, coal, zinc, copper, ivory, etc. Europeans wanted to take over the land so they could use the resources in Africa to make useful things like fabrics, fuel, food products, rope, coins, and other useful items (Doc D). If Europeans took over Africa, they'd be able to trade with a larger variety of people and countries, which meant getting a larger variety of resources (Doc A). After the Europeans took over Africa, they used the resources there to their best advantage; the Europeans sold and traded lots of the resources in…
INTRODUCTION: The book How Europe underdeveloped Africa is written by Walter Rodney and it was published in 1972. The book explains the relation that existed between Africa and Europe during the 15th Century to after the colonization of Africa. The book takes the view that Africa was deliberately exploited and underdeveloped by the European Colonial Regimes.…