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Effects of European Exploration, European Footholds, Slave Trade, New…
Effects of European Exploration
European Footholds
they were looking for a sea route to Asia that bypassed the Mediterranean. they also wanted to buy goods directly from their source, rather than trading through arab middlemen.
the Portuguese made maps of where resources are and to help them explore Africa's interior. Africans interior was full of gold and many people wanted to control that gold, and that resisted such exploration.
As a result of all the factors the Portuguese empire declined in the 1600, and the Portuguese did not leave a strong legacy in Africa.
https://www.britannica.com/place/western-Africa/The-beginnings-of-European-activity
they were carrying out a strategy in West Africa, building small forts to collect food and water and to repair their ships. they also established trading posts to trade muskets, tools, and cloth for gold they also sold slaves.
the Portuguese sailed around the continent making forts and trading posts. they were also attacked by existing East African coastal cities.
Slave Trade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4UYQsPIqf8
in the 1500s and 1600s, Europeans began to view slaves as the most important item of African trade.
the slave trade blew up, every one try to get in on it, many Europeans got slaves for their plantations and some bought one as a exotic household servant.
Plantation, a large farm or estate in a tropical or semitropical zone, for the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, coffee, sugarcane, etc., typically by enslaved, unpaid, or low-wage resident laborers
New African States
the slave trade had major effects on African states in the 1600s and the loss of countless numbers of young women and men resulted in some states disappearing forever.
the Asante Kingdom emerged in African by present-day Ghana. in the 1600s an military leader, Osei Tutu, won control of the trading city of Kumasi
The Oyo Empire arose from succesive waves of settlement by the Yorube people. It began as a relatively small forest kingdom. but by the Beginning of 1600s its build up a impressive army by using the wealth from the slave trade. and conquer the neighboring kingdom.
