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Kami Export - Wiley Jones - CH 25.2 Notes Outline
Kami Export - Wiley Jones - CH 25.2 Notes Outline
North Africa
- Close ties to the _____________
Muslim world
- Most of it controlled by declining ___________________
Ottoman Empire
West Africa
- Islamic reform movement- jihad-
- Controlled by the _______________
Asante kingdom.
o Traded with Europeans and Muslims and controlled several smaller states.
▪ Smaller states willing to turn to European control to help them topple the
Asante.
East Africa
- Slave trade headquarters
cloth
- Ivory and copper exchanged for _____________ firearms
and _________________.
Southern Africa
-Shaka- united Zulu nation- result → _____________________________.
mass migrations and wars (ex- Boer War)
o Facinated by __________________________
African geography
o Little understanding of the peoples they met.
Livingstone
30 years.
- studied Africa for _____
- Wrote about? Africans with more sympathy and less bias than most Europeans.
King Leopold II- Belgium King. Sent Henry Stanley to Africa to? explore the Congo River and arrange trade
treaties with African leaders.
- Dreamed of conquest and profit.
- Set off a scramble by other European nations to make claims in the region.
RESULT→ Europeans scrambled to make claims around the entire continent Redrew the map of Africa with little
regard for traditional patterns of settlement or ethnic boundaries.
- Leopold and wealthy Belgians exploited riches including copper, rubber and ivory and
treated locals brutally.
o International outrage → Leopold turned over control to the ________________
Belgian
government. → Belgian Congo- 1908- Worst was over, but exploitment
continued.
▪ Impact on Africans?- given limited if any control over the colony.
French Expansion
- Other European countries interested in improving their image and sustain economic
growth and influence.
o Portuguese- carved out colonies in Angola and Mozambique
o Italy- occupied Libya and the "horn" of Africa
o Germany- took lands in the eastern and southwestern Africa