Warm-Up

Warm-Up Based on your reading of pgs 400-404, answer

the following questions. You may use your notes.

What were the 3 largest Muslim empires and why were they in decline?

What problems did the Ottoman Empire face?

How did Muhammad Ali modernize Egypt?

What attracted foreigners to Persia?

Persia is modern day ___________________ (name country)

Redrawing the Classroom Map

How did you feel during this activity?

Why did you compete with other groups to claim the furniture?

Do you think this was a fair way to claim the furniture? Why?

What might have been a better way?

If unclaimed furniture remained, who should get it?

AFRICA 1850

AFRICA 1914

Essential Question/Objective

How did European powers come to dominate much of the world in the late 1800s?

Why did this occur?

Africa in the early 1800s

North Africa: the Sahara dessert and the Mediterranean coast line under Muslim Ottoman Rule

East Africa: influenced by Islam; strong trading ports like Mombasa, where cargo was slaves being shipped to the middle east

Southern Africa: The Zulu Kingdom emerged as a major force in the region under Shaka

Shaka was a brilliant and ruthless leader, raged violent wars against neighboring peoples and then absorbed the young men and women into his regiments

Effects of Shaka’s Rule

His conquests resulted in mass migrations and wars leaving the region

in chaos.

As people migrated north they conquered people along the way creating powerful

states.

One such migrating group, the Boers, descendants of Dutch colonizers now under British rule, clashed with migrating Zulus,

A bloody battle and fight for land between the Zulus and the Boers raged until the end

of the century.

Effects of the Slave Trade

In the early 1800s most European nations had outlawed the transatlantic slave trade

Slave trade from East Africa to Asia continued through the 1800s

British Sierra Leone 1787: a colony for former slaves

Liberia 1847: an Independent republic settled by freed blacks from the United States

Colonization of Africa began slowly, beginning with the exterior. Africans

wanted to trade with Europeans but did not want to “house” them

Dr. David Livingston

Advances in medicine and technology allow explorers to push inward

Catholic and Protestant Missionaries followed

Dr. David Livingston blazes a trail; he crisscrosses Africa for 30 years writing about the peoples he met with more sympathy and less bias than most Europeans

Journalist Henry Stanley meets Livingston in 1869 with the line, “Dr. Livingston, I presume?”

The Berlin Conference

As European powers sent more and more explorers into Africa, a scramble for Africa began. To avoid bloodshed European Powers met at an international conference in 1884 to divide up Africa

Conference took place in Berlin, Germany; no Africans were invited to the conference

Outcomes: Free trade on the Congo and Niger Rivers European power could not claim any part of Africa

without first setting up a government office there In less than 20 years the map of Africa was entirely

redrawn

Africa, 1914Africa, 1914

The Belgian Congo Under King Leopold II of Belgium, the Congo is

exploited for its resources including copper, rubber, and ivory

His personal overseers brutalized villagers forcing them to labor for almost nothing while savagely beating or mutilating them

After international outrage Leopold’s personal colony is turned over to the government of Belgium becoming the Belgian Congo in 1908 and ending the worse abuses

Africans in the Congo were given no role in the government and all the money from the mines was taken outside the country

Horrors in the CongoHorrors in the Congo

Others Join the Scramble

France Invaded and

conquered Algeria in North Africa killing 10s of 1000s French soldiers and many times more Algerians

They won colonies in Tunisia and West and Central Africa

At its height, the French Empire in Africa was as large as the continental US

Great Britain Britain has a

scattered share of Africa

Controlled many heavily populated regions such as Egypt and the Sudan

Acquired the former Cape Colony from the Dutch in 1814 (South Africa)

The Boer War 1899-1902 Dutch settlers in the Cape Colony fled North once

the British took over, while the British settlers remained further South

Discovery of gold and diamonds in the Boer north led to bitter guerilla fighting amongst the British and the Boers; the British eventually win

In 1910, the British unite the Cape Colony and the former Boer republics into the Union of South Africa

A constitution in South Africa set up a government run by whites and established a system of complete racial segregation

More Europeans Step In

Italy occupied Lybia and pushed into the “horn” of Africa at the southern end of the Red Sea

Germany takes over in eastern and southwest Africa in Cameroon and Togo

Portugal carved out large colonies in Angola and Mozambique

Africa Resists! Algerians battled the

French in West Africa with Samori Toure fighting to build his own empire

The British battle the Zulus in South Africa and the Asante in West Africa The Asantes fight

under their queen Yaa Asantewewaa

Germans fought wars in East Africa

Maji-Maji Rebellion of 1905 led to a German victory only after they had burned acres and acres of farmland leaving 1000s of local people to die of starvation

Maji Rebel Leaders

Ethiopia Survives Ethiopia was an ancient Christian kingdom in East

Africa that had been divided up among a number of rival princes who ruled their own domain or territory

In the late 1800s a reforming ruler Melenik II began to modernize Ethiopia

He hired Europeans to plan modern roads and bridges and set up a Western school system

He imported the latest weapons and European officers to train his army

In 1896 Ethiopia successfully repelled Italian invaders

Ethiopia was one of only two African nations to preserve its independence