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.