Africa: European Partitioning of Africa

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

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

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Europeans created these along Africa's coast: ports to re-supply their ships, monuments to their kings and queens, centers of worship that went along with African culture, banking systems for Africans.

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ports to re-supply their ships

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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

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African slave trade

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The Portuguese did this to African tribes people

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

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Many European countries were involved in the African slave trade

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True

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European countries kidnapped African slaves and

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

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The trans-Atlantic slave trade lasted from the

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1500s to the mid-1800s.

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European countries saw that Africa was a continent

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full of vast natural resources and mineral wealth.

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

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European countries competing for land and power.

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Imperialism is a system where

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a strong country takes wealth and raw materials from another country.