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Effects of European Exploration - Coggle Diagram
Effects of European Exploration
European Footholds
Malindi
An important port in East Africa. There were large plantations with fruits, coconut palm trees, vegetables and cattle. Slaves and ivory were exported. Malindi has traditionally been a port city for foreign powers.
Mombasa
The city and chief port of Kenya, situated on a coralline island in a bay of the Indian Ocean. before it became an important trade area, it had ong been the site of settlements inhabited by Bantu-speaking people who farmed, fished, and local trading
Cape Town
The first permanent European settlement, to supply ships sailing to or from the East Indies. Dutch settlement on the southern tip of Africa that sold supplies to ships in the East indies trade.
Boers
Dutch farmers who settled in South Africa around Cape Town. Over time, they ousted, enslaved, or even killed people who lived there
Slave Trade
Plantations
Large estates run by an owner or an owner's overseer. Europeans also brought slaves as exotic household servants.
Affonso I
Ruler of Kongo in west-central Africa. He wanted to establish a modern Christian state and end the slave trade.
Missionary
Person sent to do religious work in a territory or foreign country
New African States
Asante kingdom
The Asante kingdom emerged in the area occupied by present-day Ghana. United by Osei Tutu in the 1600s
Osei Tutu
A military leader who won control of the trading city of Kumasi. After gaining control of Kumasi he conquered neighboring peoples and unified the Asante kingdom. He created an efficient, powerful kingdom.
Monopoly
A monopoly is the exclusive control of a business or industry. The Asante traded with Europeans on the coast exchanging gold and slaves for firearms. They also played rival Europeans against each other to protect themselves.
Oyo Empire
Late 1600s kingdom of Yoruba in present-day Nigeria
European Exploration reading
Age of Exploration (Crash Course)
