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African History Quiz II Study Guide
Exploration
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Why were Europeans looking for a sea route to Asia?
Why was Portugal positioned to be the first European country to explore?
Prince Henry the Navigator
Bartolomeu Dias
Vasco De Gama
What role did new technologies play in exploration?
Why did the Portuguese go into Africa?
Slave Trade
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Why did Europeans begin buying and selling African slaves?
Draw and label the “triangular trade” that included the Atlantic slave trade.
Describe the journey a slave would take on the slave trade, from capture to arrival in the New
World.
“Removing people from genealogy is very important to making a slave.” Explain this statement.
Describe the role that ethnicity and religion played in making someone a slave before the
Atlantic slave trade.
“The New World slave-plantation society was the laboratory of modern racism. The simple fact
is no people can enslave another for four centuries without coming out with a notion of
superiority.” Explain this statement
What was an abolitionist, and why did they want to end slavery?
Identify and describe three economic reasons for the end of the slave trade.
Identify and describe four long term effects of the slave trade.
Imperialism
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Define imperialism
Give four reasons or motives for the development of European imperialism.
Why was European imperialism able to spread so quickly?
For most of history, Europeans could not access the interior of Africa. Give three reasons why
not.
Some Europeans felt they were carrying the “white man’s burden” or “bringing the light” to
Africa. Explain what is meant by this.
Describe the Berlin conference of 1884. What was its purpose, and what was its outcome?
Describe the atrocities committed in the Belgian Congo.
Describe the atrocities committed by the Germans in Namibia.
Describe the four types of imperial rule.