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Effects of European Exploration - Coggle Diagram
Effects of European Exploration
European Footholds
Mombasa & Malindi:
Two East African coastal cities that were hubs of international trade. Both cities were originally controlled by the Arabs, but were taken over by the Portuguese.
Missionaries:
Europeans who tried to convert Africans to Christianity. Affonso I was tutored by Portuguese missionaries.
Cape Town:
The first permanent European settlement in Africa, which was built by the Dutch after they arrived at the southern tip of Africa in 1652. It was constructed to supply ships sailing to or from the East Indies, and was settled by the Boers.
The Boers:
Dutch farmers who settled around Cape Town and ousted, enslaved, or killed the people who lived there over time. They held a Calvinist belief that they were God’s chosen, and saw Africans as inferior. Began to push north from the Cape Colony in the 1700s, which would eventually lead to battle with several African groups.
Slave Trade
Plantations:
Large estates that typically grew cash crops and were run by an owner or an owner’s overseer. Many African slaves were taken to Europe or the Americas to work on these plantations.
Affonso I:
The ruler of Kongo, located in west-central Africa, who was against the slave trade. He became king in 1505, and soon called upon Portugal to help him develop Kongo as a modern Christian state. He wanted to maintain contact with Europe but end the slave trade. However, Europe didn’t accept his demands.
Monopoly:
The exclusive control of a business or industry.
The Transatlantic Slave Trade (Reading)
New African States
Asante Kingdom:
A wealthy, powerful kingdom in the late 1600s that emerged in the area occupied by present-day Ghana. It was made up of conquered peoples united under Osei Tutu. This kingdom had a monopoly on gold mining and the slave trade in the area, and traded gold and slaves for firearms with Europeans on the coast. To protect their kingdom, they played rival Europeans against one another. They also defeated a powerful enemy kingdom, the Denkyera, giving them access to many people to trade for firearms.
Oyo Empire:
A relatively small kingdom that used wealth it gained from the slave trade in the late 1600s to build up an impressive army and conquer the neighboring kingdom of Dahomey. Continued to gain wealth by trading with European merchants at Porto-Novo, a port city. Settled by the Yoruba people of present-day Nigeria.
Osei Tutu:
The leader of the Asante kingdom. He won control of the trading city of Kumasi in the late 1600s, then conquered neighboring peoples and unified them under the Asante kingdom. He claimed that his right to rule came from heaven and that his people were linked by spiritual bonds to promote unity, as well as supervising an efficient bureaucracy.
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