6.1 Flashcards
What link do we have with Africa?
Homo sapiens evolved there.
What’s a colony?
A county controlled by another country, which has settlers there.
What’s a coloniser?
A country that takes control of another country for its own benefit and sends people to live there.
What’s independence?
When a country stops being a colony and governs itself.
What’s the raw material the European colonisers wanted from Africa?
Gold, ivory, rubber, timber, cocoa, fruits and slaves.
How did the colonisation of Africa help to make the European colonisers wealthy?
European colonisers would take advantage of Africa’s precious and raw materials that were worth a lot of money.
What were the countries that colonised parts of Africa?
Britain, France, Spain, Germany, Belgium and others.
List 8 African countries
Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, South Africa, Egypt, Madagascar, Angola and Uganda.
How did slave trading and different ethic groups being forced together in countries negatively affect Africa?
Slave trading negatively impacted Africa because it meant that other colonisers would gain more and Africa would lose more because now less and less people were in Africa and the population would decrease and there wouldn’t be enough people to help others out.Different ethnic groups being forced together would mean that a.majority of them would forget their roots and would have to learn how to live with people who they didn’t know about which would cause conflict for Africans meaning that instead of supporting each other in hard times they would sometimes rebel against each other!
What is approximately the population of Africa?
1.3 billion.
