Africa
Songhay Empire
Goa on the Niger River
Traded w/ Trans Saharan
Leader: Sunni Ali
Muslim but not really religiously involved
Died in 1492
Askia Muhammad: Sunni's nephew, took aver
Lasted for about 100 years
Europeans Arrive
Certain Regions of East and West Africa were their targets
Prince Henry The Navigator
Traded slaves (Africa) for gunpowder(Europe)
In charge of the traveling
Financed Expeditions
Africa's Atlantic Coast and Cape of Good Hope
Portuguese ruler
Dahomey(from Africa) raided other villages for slaves(stronger military base)
Portuguese
Vasco De Gama, an explorer invaded the Swahili city-states of East Africa
Atlantic Trade System or Triangular Trade
Enslaved Africans were shipped to the Americas
American tobacco and other cash crops to Europe
European factory goods (firearms) were shipped to West Africa
Middle Passage
Journey Across the Atlantic
Captive Africans;swept from families were taken to barracoons (slave Castle) in West Africa
King Alfonso didn't really have control when the Europeans came
Voyage To The Americas
Little Food and Water
Tight living area
half of the ship died
Took About 6 weeks
North America
Plantation owners recruited European indentured servants that came to work in return for passage, room and board
African Diaspora
dispersion of africans out of africa
Africans managed to keep some of their culture
Language was a mixture of Europeans colonizers' languages and West African language that made CREOLE.
Had aspects of Christanity and theri religion like drumming, dancing etc.
A mixture of the two cultures were Vondun in Haiti , Condomble in Brazil and Santeria in Cuba
Africans brought Okra and Gumbo to the Americans