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steviepliss on January 4, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 african's problema | they had to unite to become free |
| pan-africanism | the movement to unify all africans |
| negritude movement | strengthened and encouraged africans to value their culture. strengthened pan africanism. |
| why did europeans want to establish colonies in africa? | economic motives, political motives and religous motives. |
| most african countries began to win independence when? | after ww2 in 1945, 1950's, 1960's, and some 1970's. |
| cecil rhodes | british imperialist, founded rhodesia, his dream was the cape to cairo railway. |
| berlin confrence | 1884-1885, no africans were invited, represenitives from european countries met to set up african territory, varranged by otto van bismark. |
| aboliton | the movement to end slavery |
| prince henry | cartographer(mapmaker), payed and organized trips, at first interested in exploring and his ships to reach india, visionary, house of aviz:the porueguese royal family, he was a navigator. |
| caravel, circumnavigate | type of ship, to go around. |
| imperialism | control by 1 country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region. |
| colony | a territory under the direct control of another country. |
| effects of the slave trade | increased warfare in africa, european slave traders set african tribes against each other and they introduced guns, destroyed communities, slave traders captuerd young and healthy while old and weak were left to starve, african diaspora spreads to other places. |
| tippu-tib | became wealthy (african ruler) gained wealth and power by trading slaves |
| mirambo | same defenition as tipputib |
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