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Africa in Transition
World History Duiker/Spielvogel, 4th Edition. Chapter 14
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History
9th Grade
10/12/2009

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Name 4 reasons why exploration took off in the 1400's?
Definition

-navigation (compass, ect.)

-better boats

-guns

-printing press

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Why did the Spanish explore?
Definition

GOLD-mainly


  glory and god

(said, not  true)

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What was the effect of European arrival on native population...
Definition

BIG EFFECT

- 95% of population died

     -small pox

     -1 million left

 

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When was the Treaty of Tordesillas written?
Definition

1494

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What was the Treaty of Tordesillas?
Definition

Spain got everything west but Brazil, Portual got routes around Africa.

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Africa was induring internal conflict when the Europeans came...

 

TRUE or FALSE

Definition

 

TRUE or FALSE

 

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Which coordinal direction was slave trade occuring in Africa
Definition

N

W       E

S

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Where was colonization occuring in Africa?
Definition

N

W      E

S

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Who was migratinging in Africa in the 1400-1500
Definition

Bantu

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When do Europeans arrive in Mozambique and what do they control? How?
Definition

-Arrive 1500's

  -Controlled Gold Trade

    -Zambezi River

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What do the Europeans create in South Africa and where?
Definition

-Estab. Way Station

  -Discover area,thinly populated by Khosan

   

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Who arrives in West Africa in the late 1400's
Definition

-Potugese exploring by late 1400's

 

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 Where was the expansion of the slave trade mainly happening?
Definition
New World($$$)
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Name 3 cash crops and who was picking them, and what happened to them (the crops)
Definition

- Slaves

  -sugar

  -cotton

  -indigo (true blue)

    -Went to Europe to be planted and sold

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About how many Africans were slaves in the 1500's
Definition
275000
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About how many Africans were slaves in the 1600's
Definition
1000000
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About how many Africans were slaves in the 1700's
Definition
6000000
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About how many Africans were slaves in the 1800's
Definition
2000000
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About how many Africans were slaves total from 1500-1800
Definition

10,000,000

Year Amount
1500 275000
1600 1000000
1700 6000000
1800 2000000
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Where was the peak in slave trade from 1500-1800
Definition
1700's - 6,000,000
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Name 3 Asian islands
Definition
Malaysia, Indonisia, Philipenes
Term

The Asian islands were heavily populated

TRUE or FALSE

 

Definition

TRUE or FALSE

They were thinly populated

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Ancient Trading Network...
Definition
Islam, Hindusim & Buddhism
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Arrival of Europeans was in what year
Definition
1500
Term

True or False

Europeans kicked out Muslims with weapons

Definition
TRUE or FALSE
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What is the VOC
Definition

Dutch East India Company

 

VOC is actually Dutch and is translated to DEIC

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Who was moving south in Africa and why
Definition

-domino effect (population)(climate)

  -cattle movers-southern

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True or False

Bantu speakers were pushed out of their land and into the Atlantic Ocean to drown

Definition
False, they were only pushed out of their land, not to the Atlantic
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What do the Mwene Matpa do?
Definition

-Mwene Metpa

  -dirve Portugese out

    -controlls coast line until 1975

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What was Khosan like, who lived there (what were they known as) and what did they speak?
Definition

 -mild climate

  - migrating Dutch, slowly

    -known as BOERS-speak Afrikaans

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What did the Portugese do in West Africa
Definition

-arrived & started to buy people

    -1000 Africans a year (small amount)

      -used a servants

-changes with discovery of New World

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