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Africa 1

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Shaka
a Zulu chief in 1816 who used highly disiplined warriors and good military organizationto create a lage centralized state.
Social Darwinism
the application of Darwin's ideas about evolution and the survival of the fitest
Racism
the attitude/belief that one race is inferior to another race
Triangular Trade
The translantic trading network along which slaves and other goods were carried between Africa, Europe, England,the West indies and the colonies in the Americas.
How did the enslaved Africans resist their bondage?
They made themselfs less productiveby breaking tools, uprooting plants,and working slowly.
Berlin Conference
A meeting from 1884-1885 at which representatives of European nations agreed on rules for colonization of Africa , without any African nations' participation
Imperialism
A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries poitically, socially, and economically.
Middle Passage
The Voyage that brought captured Africans to the West Indies. And later to North and South America to be sold as slaves-so called because it was considered the middle leg of the Triangular trade.
What effect did the spread of Islam have on the slave trade?
Muslim rulers in Africa justified enslavement with the Muslim belief that NON-MUSLIMS prisoners of war could be bought and be sold as slaves.
Alantic Slave Trade
euorpean colonists in the U.S. needed cheap labor so they forced transportation of at least 10 million enslaved Africans from their homeland in Africa.
How did African slaves contribute to the development of the Americas?
Without backbreaking labor colonies such as Haiti and Barbados would have not survived. Africans brought their expertise in agriculture and they have also brought their culture.

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