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Why did Europeans explore the Coast of Africa?

Why did Europeans explore the Coast of Africa?. 2012 Africa 15 th – 18 th Centuries. Turks closed off trade routes to Asia!. Prince Henry Established ‘schools’ to teach Navigation. At time of Prince Henry- 1430-1460.

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Why did Europeans explore the Coast of Africa?

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  1. Why did Europeans explore the Coast of Africa? 2012 Africa 15th – 18th Centuries

  2. Turks closed off trade routes to Asia!

  3. Prince Henry Established ‘schools’ to teach Navigation At time of Prince Henry- 1430-1460 He sponsored expeditions of discovery the down the western coast of Africa.

  4. Portuguese Caravel The caravel was developed in about 1450, under the sponsorship of Prince Henry the Navigator

  5. Vasco da Gama-First to sail to India around Cape of Good Hope- 1498

  6. Establishment of Sugar Plantations on Islands… • Explores first wanted gold from Africa…..late for work on plantations… slave trade By 1500 the Portuguese had transported approximately 81,000 slaves to these various markets. Canary Islands Madeira Islands Cape Verde Sugar Plantations on the Islands needed workers… The era of European slave trading was about to begin...

  7. Triangular TradeTrans-Atlantic Slave Trade

  8. Read Articles on Slave Trade & Video Video on Slave Ship (Discovery Education) After completing assignments continue with presentation.

  9. What were the effects of the Slave Trade to Africa?

  10. Devastation to African Culture and African People • 15 Million of Africa’s strongest & healthiest men and women robbed from the continent! • Wealth of labor taken from Africa to the Americas. • Slave trade destroyed the incentive to develop cash crops and a agrarian revolution occurring in other parts of the world. • Lack of industrial revolution & other sources of wealth- created lack of economic development in Africa. Lack of development of infrastructure; electricity, water systems… • Slave Wars/tribal wars weakened governments. • Africa's ability to defend itself was seriously compromised.

  11. Abolitionist Movement Begin! • 1750- Abolition Movement- Church of England • 1807- End of “Slave Trade” • 1808- illegal for British Ship to be involved in slave trade • 1833- Britain Abolished Slavery • 1863- U.S. Abolished Slavery • 1888- Brazil Abolished Slavery

  12. What brought on Abolitionist movement? Ideas of Liberty- French Revolution Slave Rebellions

  13. Abolitionist movement Church of England- sermons against slavery Money & Industrialization

  14. Around the time slavery was ending, European explorers travel to the interior of Africa 1850- Explores had mapped most of Africa David Livingstone

  15. Pause Here, work on Imperialism Sheet 2nd Phase of European Contact with Africa

  16. Era of the Treaties & Colonization in Africa • For Europeans, these treaties meant that Africans had signed away their sovereignties (rights); • but for Africans, the treaties were merely diplomatic and commercial friendship treaties. • Cartoon depicting the Berlin Conference.

  17. Berlin Conference The Berlin Conference of 1884 regulated European colonization and trade in Africa. 

  18. New Imperialism Direct & Indirect Rule

  19. King Leopold of Belgium & the Congo

  20. Chancellor of German EmpireOtto Van Bismark

  21. Fight Against Colonialism • After discovering that they had in effect been defrauded by the European powers • African rulers organized militarily to resistthe seizure of their lands and the imposition of colonial domination.

  22. Technology- Medicine& Guns New Maxim Gun Medicine to protect against Disease.

  23. Age of Imperialism1850-1919

  24. Ethiopia & Liberia were NOT colonized

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