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Three Worlds Collide: Columbus' Effect on the Old World and the New Flashcards

1
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Center of the world trade from 1200-1450?

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The Abbasid Empire in Saudi Arabia

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What were gold and slaves from Africa traded for?

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Steel and salt

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3
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The gold was sent to China and India and traded what?

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Spices, silk and tea

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4
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Prince Henry the Navigator learned about what in 1417? Where?

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the gold trade while on crusade in Ceuta in 1417

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5
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Prince Henry decided to find the source of the gold by exploring where?

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The coast of Africa

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6
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In 1417 who controlled gold?

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The Kingdom of Mali controlled the gold

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Why couldn’t Prince Henry establish colonies on the Mali coast?

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The Islamic rulers of Mali drove Prince Henry’s men out

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Where did Henry look after? Why?

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Henry looked further south for a trading partner

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Songhai was a tribute state to the Mali Empire

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Songhai

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10
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Songhai was willing to trade ___ for ___

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Songhai was willing to trade GOLD for GUNS

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What did Songhai used its new weapons for?

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To take control of the Mali Empire

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By 1450 what did Portugal and Songhai manage to do?

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They managed to take the gold trade over entirely

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Why couldn’t Songhai keep Portuguese ships full?

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Songhai did not have enough gold

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What and to who did Songhai begin to sell by the 1460’s?

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Songhai began selling prisoners of war to the Portugese as slaves

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These slaves were brought to Portugal where rich elites bought them to use as house servants and personal attendants

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Under Islamic law, non-muslim prisoners of war could be kept as slaves

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17
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These slaves were used as personal servants, and were considered a symbol of status for successful nobles and warriors

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Under Islamic laws, these slaves were freed after seven years of service.

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Many remained free servants of their owners by choice.

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20
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When Columbus got to the new world he instantly realized there was tremendous money to be made by building colonies there

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But he had a little trouble getting the natives to help build them

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22
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Africans proved more robust against the disease and back breaking labo Europeans demanded.

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23
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By 1500 the Portugese began using enslaved Africans to build sugar plantations in Brazil

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The Spanish quickly copied them

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25
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Suddenly a slave was no longer a personal status symbol- he/she was raw anmal labor, and a source of massive profits

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In the mid 1500’s Songhai tried to kick the Portugese out of Africa and put an end to the slave trade.

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27
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Portugal cut off trade with Songhai, and started trading guns for slaves with Benin instead.

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With Songhai’s supply of guns cut off they were quickly conquered by Benin

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29
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The Shift from the gold-salt trade to the transatlantic slave trade destroyed the economies of Mali and the Middle East- both are still poor today

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30
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Paying one African nation after another to capture and enslave other Africans started a cycle of perpetual warfare that still exists in much of Africa today

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As many as 40 million Africans were forced from their homes between 1450 and 1878. Nearly 80 million died in wars during this time, preventing most African nations from achieving a large enough population to build a strong self-sufficient economy. All of the poorest nations in the world today are in Africa as a result

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The production of sugar, bananas, and cotton on North and South American plantations robbed African nations of their most valuable agricultural exports- further damaging the African economy.

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33
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The discontinuation of trans-Saharan trade routes led to the decline of most major interior cities in Africa

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