Chapter 4 Flashcards
What African nation was created by Great Britain for freed African slaves?
Sierra Leone
What Africa Nation was established by the United States after slaves were freed?
Liberia
What type of European rule controlled all aspects of an African colony?
Direct
What type of European rule allowed African leaders to enforce laws?
Indirect
What two trade items allowed African nations to create large kingdoms in the West?
Gold and Salt
How did the people of Africa preserve their history?
Oral traditions
Extended families in Africa included whom?
Parents, children, spruces, other relatives
What two societies did most Africans live in?
Farming and herding
How was the land viewed in African culture
Community property
What is it called when the husband gives gifts to the brides family
Bride wealth
What were most religions of Africa?
Monotheistic (one god)
During the height of the slave trade how many Africans were sent into slavery each year?
60,000
What continents were linked during the slave trade
Africa, Europe, America
What did Europeans use to pay slave rulers?
Guns
How did the slave trade destroy many villages of Africa?
Took strong hands preventing farming
What was the religious motive behind European imperialism
Spreading Christianity
What two innovations helped Europeans advance into Africa?
New medical knowledge
The maxim gun
What was the main discussion during the Berlin conference?
How to divide Africa
What country did resist European imperialism by buying European technology?
Ethiopia
The discovery of what two resources sent Europeans into South Africa?
Diamonds and gold
What did the European money economy encourage African farmers to produce?
Cash crops
What new systems of communication and transportation did colonial rule bring to Africa?
Roads
Railroads
Telegraphs
