Africa: European Partitioning of Africa

Europeans first got interested in African for this reasons (Pick All that Apply)

• for trade route purposes.

• It was a popular tourist spot

• The great fishing and hunting

• Avoid the taxes of the Arab and Ottoman empires

Why didn't the Europeans just sail completely around Africa for their trade routes?

• Too many sea monsters

• Pirates

• It was a long journey and they needed to re-supply their ships

• they didn't have ships that were able to make the long journey

Europeans created these along Africa's coast.

• Monuments to their kings and queens

• ports to re-supply their ships

• Centers of worship that went along with African culture

• Banking systems for Africans

During the 16th century, Portuguese explorers became engaged in this

• Adopting the African culture and bring it back home

• Teaching other cultures to build ships

• Helping the poor in Africa

• African slave trade

The Portuguese did this to African tribes people

• Taught them to be more civilized and dress like Europeans

• They kidnapped Africans and forced them to work on plantations and mines in their colonies in the New World.

• Helped to educate them and teach them to read

• How to hunt and fish

Many European countries were involved in the African slave trade

• True

• False

European countries kidnapped African slaves and

• forced them to work on plantations and mines in their colonies in the New World

• made them go to schools throughout Europe

• made them dress like Europeans and speak English

• imprisoned them in African jails

The trans-Atlantic slave trade lasted from the

• 1930-1950

• 1400-1490

• 1000 BCE-2020 CE

• 1500s to the mid-1800s.

European countries saw that Africa was a continent

• that needed a better government and economy

• that needed European culture and wealth

• full of vast natural resources and mineral wealth.

• that should be left alone to develop at its own pace

The end of the 19th century is called the “Age of Imperialism”, which refers to

• Kings and Queens

• European countries competing for land and power.

• Developing farmlands for the poor

• Creating a monetary system for other countries