World Cultures                                                                                                                                                             Mr. Pendergast

 

Quiz Review – Africa Ch. 4 - “African Empires and European Slave Traders”

               

QUIZ Format:

 

I.                  “Multiple Choice” – Use the Chapter Review section to practice.  Questions will not be the same, but will be similar in format.
 

II.               “True or False – Without a Twist”Will be taken mostly from the “Main Points” section of the “Review Outline.”

III.           “Costs of Development Essay -  You’ll have to use at least 10 “Important Terms” from Chapter 4 to answer the following question:

How did the ‘arrival of the Europeans’ effect the history of African cultures?”  In your essay, make sure you describe what these cultures/kingdoms were like before, and what happened to them after the Europeans came. 

 

Handouts & Exercises:

       

                                African Civilizations Chart – Click for attached completed chart.

 

African Distress, by Theodore Dwight – Poem about a mother, son and sister on a slave ship (see handout).

 

                                The African Slave Trade and the Middle Passage - The Terrible Transformation

 

Review Outline:  Chapter 4 - “African Empires and European Slave Traders”



1.       LATER AFRICAN CIVILIZATIONS:

a.      Ghana

 

                                                  i.      Important Terms – Ghana, Berbers, Kumbi-Salik

                                                ii.      Main Points – SEE African Civilizations CHART

 

b.      Mali & Songhai -

                                                  i.      Important Terms – Mali, Timbuktu, Mansa Musa, pilgrimage to Mecca, University of Sankore, Gao, Songhai, Sunni Ali, Askia the Great, chronicles

                                                ii.      Main Points – SEE African Civilizations CHART

 

c.      Kanem-Bornu -

                                                  i.      Important Terms – Kanem-Bornu, cavalry,

                                                ii.      Main Points – SEE African Civilizations CHART

 

d.      Smaller States of West Africa -

                                                  i.      Important TermsHausa, Daura, Gobir, Natsina, Kano, Zaria, Kebbi

                                                ii.      Main Points – SEE African Civilizations CHART

 

e.      City-States of East Africa -

                                                  i.      Important TermsZanj, al-Masudi, Swahili, Zanzibar, Geti, Pate, Mombasa, Sofala, Kilwa, Ibn Battutah

                                                ii.      Main Points – SEE African Civilizations CHART

f.        Empire Kingdoms of East Africa

 

                                                  i.      Important Terms – Kitari, Buganda, Bunyoro

                                                ii.      Main Points – SEE African Civilizations CHART

 

g.      Kingdoms of the Interior -

                                                  i.      Important Terms – Kongo, Sofala, Karangas, Mutoto, Monomotapa, Great Zimbabwe

                                                ii.      Main Points – SEE African Civilizations CHART

 

h.     Noncentralized Societies -

                                                  i.      Important Terms – consensus, age grades, Ibo

                                                ii.      Main Points –

1.       many Africans lived together without a central ruler or king

2.      body of elders makes decisions

3.      because of their traditions of mutual cooperation and respect, these societies tended to be more stable than Africa’s state building societies

 

2.      ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPEANS: Magnet that first attracted Europeans was riches of Asia and desire to control trade routes

a.      Portuguese Success -

                                                  i.      Important Terms – Gold Coast, Diego Cao, Bartholomeu Diaz, Vasco da Gama, circumnavigated

                                                ii.      Main Points –

1.        Portuguese dream of reaching Asia had been achieved – changing the whole course of African history

2.       Many wealthy trading cities looted and destroyed

3.       Eyewitness reports of wealth attracted many other explorers

 

b.      Other Europeans -

                                                  i.      Main Points –

1.        Portuguese sugar plantations off East African coast create demand for slaves in the 1400’s

2.       1600’s – English, French, Dutch, Danes & Swedes challenge Portuguese for control – opened up ports of their own

3.       Basis of trade switches from commodities to slaves

 

c.      Impact on Africa - How did the European arrival affect Africa (“roots of development”)?

                                                  i.      Main Points –

1.       Disturbed traditional trading patterns and established new ones

2.       Decline of kingdoms who relied on trans-Saharan or Indian Ocean trade

3.       Rise of west African kingdoms

 

3.      THE SLAVE TRADE: Slavery and slave trading goe back to ancient times

a.      Growth of the Slave Trade –

                                                  i.      Important Terms – Oman, Zanzibar, Atlantic Slave Trade, Middle Passage

                                                ii.      Main Points –

1.       Role of two groups - Arabs and Europeans

2.      Role of African collaborators in capturing countrymen – how they were captured and transported to coast

3.      The Middle Passage

4.      Legacy of slavery in Africa

 

b.      The End of the Slave Trade -

                                                  i.      Important Terms – Alfonso, Industrial Revolution

                                                ii.      Main Points –

1.       African resistance to slavery

2.       Role of Industrial Revolution in end of slavery

3.       Anti-Slavery Movement and end of slavery - Tanganyika, 1919

 

c.      CASE STUDY: A Slave’s Account -

 

                                                  i.      Important Terms – Ottobah Cuguana

                                                ii.      Main Points – Describes what it’s like in each stage of enslavement.

1.       Capture

2.       Prison

 Slave Ship