12.2 Flashcards
What did North Africa have and who ruled it?
Had enormous Sahara desert; under control of Ottoman Empire
What was Africa like in the early 1800’s?
There were many languages and varied governments, plus many people were fighting for Africa (Europeans)
Who revolted in West Africa to run out European rulers?
The Fulani people for Islamic culture returning
Denounced the corruption of European rulers. Wanted religious and social reform on Islamic laws; inspired people to rise up
Usman Dan Fodis
Sharia
Islamic laws
What did Usman set up?
Powerful state in northern Nigeria
What did Usman improve?
Wars, and trade
Tried with Europeans and Muslims; ruled states
The Asante
What did the states of the Asante want to do?
Defeat the Asante
What did the Islamic acquired from their improved trade?
They got guns and cloth, in exchange for inform and copper
What was the most common thing traded?
Slaves
Ran South Africa; ruled by Shaka
Zulu kingdom
Man that ruled Zulu kingdom, waged war and recruited people from his defeated rival
Shaka
New powerful group of Zulu; descendants of Duran farmers
Boers
What did Shaka’s wars increase?
Wars and migration
Dutch farmers moving north to live their way
The Great Trek
How did the boers best the Zulus ?
With guns
What did Africans want to do with Europeans?
Trade with them but not house them
What initially stopped Europeans from trading?
Geography and disease
What fixed the trading problems with Europeans?
Medicine and the steam boat
What did the Protestants and Catholics do in Africa ?
They followed explorers into Africa to covert people to Christianity, they built churches and medical clinics, and treated Africa’s people as misguided children
Treating people like they don’t know what they’re doing
Paternalistic
Best know explorer and missionary ; believed the end to the slave trade was with christianity and trade
Dr. David Livingstone
Found Livingstone
Henry Stanley
Hired Stanley to explore the Congo River and arrange trade treaties with African leaders
King Leopoldo II
What was King Leopold’s real mission?
To gain profit
How did Europeans avoid war over Africa?
They met at a conference in 1884 with no Africans
How could Europeans gain land in Africa?
Only if they had a government set up and officials control their land
Who gained Congo for the goods?
Belgians and Leopold
Lasted from 1899 through 1902; boers and Brits fought for land in the south
Boer war
What happened after the boer war?
A constitution and segregation
