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HISTORICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Slave Trade
African Diaspora: refers to
HISTORICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Slave Trade
Most slaves in Africa were war captives.
By the time Europeans arrived in Africa in the 1400 and
HISTORICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Slave Trade
Captured slaves were brought to castles or forts on the
coast.
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Directions: Color each African country using the color that corresponds with its colonial ruler. If an African country
was colonized by two colonial rulers, then color it in stripes, using the colors for all colonial rulers related to your
country. Example: If a country was colonized by the United Kingdom and France, then color half the country dark green
and half the country dark red.
African Country
1. Algeria
2. Angola
3. Benin
4. Botswana
5. Burkina Faso
6. Burundi
7. Cameroon
8. Central African Republic
9. Chad
10. Democratic Republic of the Congo
11. Republic of the Congo
12. Cote dIvoire (Ivory Coast)
13. Djibouti
14. Egypt
15. Equatorial Guinea
16. Eritrea
17. Ethiopia
18. Gabon
19. Ghana
20. Guinea
21. Guinea-Bissau
22. Kenya
23. Lesotho
24. Liberia
25. Libya
26. Madagascar
27. Malawi
28. Mali
29. Mauritania
30. Morocco
31. Mozambique
32. Namibia
33. Niger
34. Nigeria
35. Rwanda
36. Senegal
37. Sierra Leone
38. Somalia
39. South Africa
40. Sudan
41. Swaziland
42. Tanzania
43. Togo
44. Tunisia
45. Uganda
46. Western Sahara
47. Zambia
48. Zimbabwe
Colonial Ruler
1. France
2. Portugal
3. France
4. United Kingdom, Germany, The Netherlands
5. United Kingdom, France
6. Germany, Belgium
7. United Kingdom, France
8. France
9. France
10. Belgium
11. France
12. France
13. France
14. United Kingdom
15. Spain
16. United Kingdom, Italy
17. Never colonized
18. France
19. United Kingdom
20. France
21. United Kingdom
22. United Kingdom , Germany
23. United Kingdom, Germany, The Netherlands
24. Never colonized (founded by United States)
25. Italy
26. France
27. United Kingdom
28. France
29. France
30. France, Spain
31. Portugal
32. Germany, South Africa
33. France
34. United Kingdom
35. Belgium
36. France
37. United Kingdom
38. United Kingdom, Italy
39. United Kingdom, Germany, The Netherlands
40. United Kingdom
41. United Kingdom
42. United Kingdom
43. Germany, France
44. France, Italy
45. United Kingdom
46. France
47. United Kingdom
48. United Kingdom
MAPPING
COLONIAL AFRICA
Episode One
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The Industrial Revolution was the period in which the production of goods shifted from hand
production methods to complex machines. During the Industrial Revolution, capitalism, an
economic system with the goal of generating profit and wealth took root. Industrialized nations
sought to increase their profit, wealth and power.
In order to continue industrializing and turning a profit, industrialized European nations needed
many things, but two main needs were located outside of Europe. The first need was for raw
materials. Raw materials are the basic material that is used to produce goods such as coal, cotton,
iron, oil, rubber, or metals. Without these raw materials, factories cannot produce goods and
cannot turn a profit. Many of these raw materials are not available in European nations.
Industrialized nations began to look to other regions for the raw materials that were not available
at home. The second need created by the Industrial Revolution was the need for reliable markets.
A market is an area or arena where goods can be bought and sold. Many factory producers were
producing a lot of goods, however, they were producing so many goods that there were more
goods than people to buy them. Their markets were oversaturated. In this case, consumer demand
slowed and this led to economic depressions. Industrialized European nations sought other
markets to absorb or buy the excess supply of their goods.
M O T I V AT I O N S O F
IMPERIALISM
WORKSHEET
Nationalism is a strong feeling of pride in ones country. During the 19th century, this sense of
pride often came from believing that ones nations far surpassed other nations in economic
success and political might.
HISTORICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Imperialism
The Opening up of Africa
Economic Needs: A need for raw materials that were not domestically
Social Darwinism: Only the strongest nations survive and only the
excitement of adventure.
The white mans burden: Europeans felt that they needed to civilize
"Take up the
HISTORICAL CHARACTERISTICS
King Leopold II & Congo
In the early 1880s, King Leopold II of
HISTORICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Berlin Conference (1884)
European countries met in Berlin, Germany
Africa
HISTORICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Effects of Imperialism
1. Breakdown of African
traditional values
3. Infrastructure
2. Loss of culture
4. Religion
3. No attention to ethnic
boundaries
5. Medicine
6. Technology
5. Dependence on Europe
6. Racism
HISTORICAL CHARACTERISTICS
The first new nation in Africa south of the Sahara was the
independency.
In 1960, Nkrumah declared Ghana a republic and himself
HISTORICAL CHARACTERISTICS
In East Africa, Kenya gained independence after an
armed rebellion.
A group called Mau Mau, began attacking white
settlers
The British jailed Kikuyu spokesman Jomo Kenyatta,
HISTORICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Nigeria, the most populous nation in Africa,
better future
ethnic rivalries.
HISTORICAL CHARACTERISTICS
American Civil Rights Movement
Inspired by African Independence Movements
Varied political ideologies some advocated the use of
Roots vs Routes
Where one is from
Roots vs Routes
Where one is from
HISTORICAL CHARACTERISTICS
The struggle for freedom
independence in 1910
as a white-ruled nation.
In 1948, the existing
Black
White
Colored (mixed ancestry)
Asian
HISTORICAL CHARACTERISTICS
It was claimed that
apartheid allowed each
race to develop its own
culture.
In reality, blacks
were kept uneducated,
segregated, and in
poverty.
HISTORICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Opposition to apartheid was led by the
armed opposition
imprisoned.
HISTORICAL CHARACTERISTICS
World opinion turned against apartheid.
Many nations, including the U.S.,
HISTORICAL CHARACTERISTICS
In 1990, South African president F.
enemies.
Expectations were high, but
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A N A LY Z I N G
MANDELA
WORKSHEET
I am indeed truly humbled to be standing here today to receive this year`s Nobel Peace Prize.
I extend my heartfelt thanks to the Norwegian Nobel Committee for elevating us to the status of a Nobel Peace Prize
winner.
I would also like to take this opportunity to congratulate my compatriot and fellow laureate, State President F.W. de
Klerk, on his receipt of this high honour.
Together, we join two distinguished South Africans, the late Chief Albert Luthuli and His Grace Archbishop Desmond
Tutu, to whose seminal contributions to the peaceful struggle against the evil system of apartheid you paid well-deserved
tribute by awarding them the Nobel Peace Prize.
It will not be presumptuous of us if we also add, among our predecessors, the name of another outstanding Nobel Peace
Prize winner, the late African-American statesman and internationalist, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
He, too, grappled with and died in the effort to make a contribution to the just solution of the same great issues of the day
which we have had to face as South Africans.
We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human
dignity, oppression and repression and liberty and human rights, poverty and freedom from want.
We stand here today as nothing more than a representative of the millions of our people who dared to rise up against a
social system whose very essence is war, violence, racism, oppression, repression and the impoverishment of an entire
people.
I am also here today as a representative of the millions of people across the globe, the anti-apartheid movement, the
governments and organisations that joined with us, not to fight against South Africa as a country or any of its peoples, but
to oppose an inhuman system and sue for a speedy end to the apartheid crime against humanity.
White
White
Nonwhite
13%
18%
STUDENT TO
T E A C H E R R AT I O
60:1
22:1
NONWHITES
WHITES
APARTHEID
1948
SOUTH
$ 696
$ Spent per
student
AFRICA
$ 45
Nonwhites
NONWHITES
WHITE
20
% of WEALTH
80
82%
Nonwhite
POPULATION
White
18%
APARTHEID
1948
SOUTH AFRICA
LAND OWNERSHIP
Nonwhite
13%
White
87%
APARTHEID
1948
SOUTH AFRICA
20
% of WEALTH
80
APARTHEID
1948
SOUTH AFRICA
$ 696
$ 45
Nonwhites
NONWHITES
WHITE
APARTHEID
1948
SOUTH AFRICA
STUDENT TO TEACHER
R AT I O
60:1
NONWHITES
22:1
WHITES
HISTORICAL CHARACTERISTICS
geno- -cide
(race, class)
(killing)
*Greek*
*Greek*
HISTORICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Historic resentments and unjust governments fed
the Tutsis.
HISTORICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Darfur
The largest country in Africa,
HISTORICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Darfur
rebel groups began fighting the
HISTORICAL CHARACTERISTICS
In the afternoon we returned from school and saw the planesThen they
began the bombing. The first bomb [landed] in our garden, then four
bombs at once in the garden. The bombs killed six people, including a
young boy.
-Taha, age 13 or 14
ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS
Resources
Africa is rich in mineral resources such as gold
rainforests.
ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS
Resources
Diamonds
Blood diamonds (also called
Organization of Petroleum
Exporting Countries.
ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS
Plantation Farming
Sub-Saharan Africa does
ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS
Somalian Piracy
Piracy off the coast of Somalia started with fisherman
ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS
Large semi-industrial cities with limited infrastructure.
Tro-tros
Taxis
Busses
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Exploring Africa
Directions: You and your partner have been chosen to explore and represent a region of the continent of Africa. After you
learn about the cultural universals of your region, you will find a creative way to share them with your classmates. When
youre finished, youll get to take a tour of the other regions of Africa!
To begin exploring, go to www.pbs.org/wnet/africa/explore/index_flash.html and click on the name of your
region. Use the chart below to keep track of the information you find while you are exploring:
Name of region:
Exploring
Africa
Worksheet
Economics:
Daily Life:
Architecture:
C U LT U R A L C H A R A C T E R I S T I C S
In Africa the three major
include worship of
ancestors, spirits, gods,
animals, land, inanimate
objects, and/or natural
phenomena.
C U LT U R A L C H A R A C T E R I S T I C S
Arabic culture was first
C U LT U R A L C H A R A C T E R I S T I C S
Ashanti, or Asante, are a major ethnic group in
Ghana.
Prior to European colonization, the Ashanti
C U LT U R A L C H A R A C T E R I S T I C S
C U LT U R A L C H A R A C T E R I S T I C S
Swahili is the first language of
C U LT U R A L C H A R A C T E R I S T I C S
Diseases
Tropical climate creates
Malaria
C U LT U R A L C H A R A C T E R I S T I C S
Traditional music in much of the continent is passed down
orally.
Saharan Africa
West Africa
Festivals
Kente Cloth
C U LT U R A L C H A R A C T E R I S T I C S
Foods
Often eaten with hands
Spicy, with lots of
vegetables
Nkate Stew w/ mo
Fufuo
Bofrot / PuffPuff
Fried Plantain
FanIce
Water Vender