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Effects of European Exploration, Africa, Malindi, Mombasa_ferry, Cape town…
Effects of European Exploration
European Footholds
Europeans empires build strategic outpost to control the spice trade
The Portugueses attecked existing East Afrikan coastel cities such as....
....Mombosa and Malindi, the hubs of international trade which is placed in Kenya
What's the story behind the spice islands?
Portugal was the first European power to gain a foothold in Asia
The Dutch were the first one to challenge the Portuguese domination of Asian trade
Europeans Gain Footholds in Asia
Slave Trade
Background info
1500s and 1600s European began to view slaves as the most important item of African trade
The english word "slave" comes from the large number of Slavs that was taken from Southern Russia to work as unpaid laborers in Roman times
Europeans Enter the Slave Trade
THE TRIANGLE TRADE LINK TO ARTICKLE:
https://www.studentsofhistory.com/the-triangle-of-trade
The Plantations:large estates run by an owner or an owner's overseer
Europeans bought large numbers of slaves to perform labor on their PLANTATIONS
Another reason why the slaves were both: the slaves were also bought by rich Europenas as exotic household servants
AFRICAN LEADERS RESIST: Some African leaders tried to slow down or stop the transatlantic slave trade
The system that supported the trade was to strong for them in the end
AFFONSO 1: he was the ruer of Kongo in west-central Africa. He was an early voice that raised against the slave trade
He wantet to maintain contact with Europe but end the slave trade
His appeal failed, the slave trade continued
Affonso had been tutored by Portuguese missionaries as a young man
New African States
Background info
The Slave Trade had major effects on African states in the 1600s and 1700s
Some consequences: Some smaller states disappered forever because of the loss of countless numbers of young woman and men
The Asante Kingdom
was in the area occupied by present day Ghana
Osei Tutu, an military leader, won control of the trading city of Kumani
From there, he conquered neighboring peoples and unified the Asante kingdom
He claimed that his right to rule came from heaven
The Asante traded with Europeans on the cost, exchanging gold and slaves for firearms
Monopoly = the exclusive control of a business or industry
The Asante Kingdom managed the royal monopolies on gold mining and the slave trade
The Oyo Empire
It began as a small forest kingdom and began in the late 1600s
The leader used wealth from the slave trade to build up an impressive army
The empire used their army to conquer the neighboring kingdom of Dahomey
At the same time, it continued to gain wealth by trading with European merchants at the port city of Porto-Novo
Cape Town, the first permantented European settlement. It was built to supply ships sailing to or from the East Indies
Boers, dutch farmers, settled around Cape Town
Duch East Indian Company
Why they call it the Cape of Good Hope?
