14.2 TURBULENT
CENTURIES IN AFRICA
A Mr. Ayala Presentation
14.2 Turbulent Centuries in Africa
• I) Portugal Gains Footholds
• A) Begin to take land and build
forts for trading.
• 1) Not for colonization only trade
• B) Attacked and controlled East
African trading cities of Mombasa
and Malindi.
14.2 Turbulent Centuries in Africa
• II) African Slave Trade
Expands
• A) African Slaves are seen
as most important item
coming from Africa
• B) Plantation system: labor
intensive farming for cash
crops, increased demand for
slave labor
• C) Relied on the Kings and
Queens in Africa to raid
enemies and trade their
people for manufactured
goods like Rum
14.2 Turbulent Centuries in Africa
• D) Affonso I, ruler of
Kongo, resisted the slave
trade
• 1) Was taught by Christian
missionaries
• 2) Wanted Europe to help him
make a modern Christian state
and end the slave trade
• a) Failed
14.2 Turbulent Centuries in Africa
• III) New African States
(Countries)
• A) Asante Kingdom, present day
Ghana
• 1) Osei Tutu, invaded neighboring
cities and tribes; unfied the Asante
• 2) Stated his right to rule was
based on being chosen by heaven
• 3) People were chosen by merit
rather than birth for the
bureaucracy
• 4) Held a monopoly over gold and
slave trade
14.2 Turbulent Centuries in Africa
III) European Presence Expands
A) 1600s; Britain, France, and
Dutch start to take over trading areas
in Africa
B) Dutch colonize Cape Town
with Boers, or Dutch farmers
1) Boers were
Calvinists that believed they were
the chosen of God. Thus, they
tortured and killed the native peoples
in what would become South Africa