Effects of European Exploration
European Footholds
New African States
Portugal Gains Footholds
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Portugal explored Africa's coast in the 1400's they were looking for a trade route to Asia. 
Portugal built outposts in Africa to trade muskets, tools, and cloth for gold, ivory tusks, hides, and slaves.
Portugal attacked the African cities Mombasa & Malindi which were international trading hubs.
Slave trade
Europeans began to think that slaves were important and could be profitable.
Portuguese trades realized that slaves could be profitable to work on plantations which were large estates run by an owner.
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African rulers and traders captured captives on the inside and brought them to trading posts. The captives were traded for textiles, metalwork, rum, tobacco, weapons, and gunpowder.
Some African leaders wanted to stop the transatlantic slave trade. However, it supported Africa too much. One of the leaders who disliked the slave trade was Alfonso I who was the ruler of Kongo in West central Africa. Alfonso, I was taught by Portuguese missionaries who were people who went places to teach about a religon.
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The Oyo empire was an empire that arose from successfully waves of settlement of the Yoruba people in present day Nigeria.
The Asante Kingdom was a kingdom where present-day Ghana is located.
Osei Tutu was a military leader who won control of Kumasi. He also conquered neighboring people and undefined the Asante Kingdom.
The Asante kingdom had a monopoly on the slave and gold trade. A monopoly is where a business or industry has exclusive control of an industry.
European Presence.
The Dutch built a town on the southern tip of Africa named Cape town which was the first permanent European settlement. Cape town