Sub-Saharan Africa had much longer exposure to Islamic culture influences than to European cultural influences. Scholars and merchants learned to use the Arabic language to communicate with visiting North Africans and to read the Quran. Islamic beliefs and practices as well as Islamic legal and administrative systems were prominent in African trading cities on the southern edge of the Saharan and on the Swahili coast. During the three and a half centuries of contact between Europe and Africa before 1800, Africans yielded minimal territory to Europeans. Local African kings scrutinized the European trading posts that they permitted along the Gold and Slave Coasts and collected profitable rents and fees from these traders and merchants.
Although personal slavery existed as a cultural mechanism, its use was never as intensive as chattel slavery in the New World. Slavery in Africa was much different from the slavery in the New World. Slaves were acquired through warfare, indebtedness and punishment for a crime and had been treated like a part of the family and were integrated into the large society in Africa and the Ottoman Empire. In contrast, slaves had been bought by European and shipped to the New Word like property. Slave trade in Africa in existence for centuries was a key factor of European expansion and had
Strategic factors played a changing role in Britain’s relationship with its African empire throughout the expansion period 1870-1902, the consolidation period 1902-1955 and the de-colonisation period 1955-1981. In some of these periods Strategy was right at the foreground of Britain’s rule in Africa and other times it was pushed to the back by other major factors. These include economic considerations, International relations, changing attitudes and nationalism. Many historians such as Martin Pugh saw that ‘the most obvious motive for British expansion was strategic’. Britain’s strategic motives in Africa centred on thwarting the growth of rival European powers as well as securing its interests in Africa.
During this period, the African leaders reacted to the Scramble for Africa in different ways including, by political or cultural behavior, fighting back or surrendering. The European invasion of Africa lead the Africans to respond in several different ways, one of which being responding with political or cultural behavior. (Documents 1,2,3, and 8). In document 1 the Royal Niger Company made a standard form contract for multiple African leaders to sign in order to imperialize the Delta. The British government discussed not entering a war with the Africans or interfering with any of the native laws and customs for control of the Nile River.
A study has done by Daes (1996) states that Australia indigenous people had spoken by more than 250 languages. Most of them were come from many European countries. Many of languages already have extinct. Now a day, about fifteen languages still being spoken by Australian aboriginal but English is become now main language among them. In addition, aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are living in main cities, regional, remote, and very remote area.
They made the claims that because they were uncivilized, this was a perfect justification for conquest. Europeans were looking for excuses to make Africa look like it needed European help; this made all African customs seem savage and not normal in the eyes of the Europeans. All of this encompassed the myth of the Dark
Europeans made slave trade acceptable by saying that is was already practiced in the continent and they were not the first. 2. Chattel slavery is where people are considered things or property and have all rights stripped. 3. African society’s adapted slave trade as it was one of the only ways people other than the ruler could gain power and
There are more than 120 different languages and dialects and the nationality is Chadian. Chad was a country that was owned by the Muslim states before the Berlin Conference (French). Later on however, Chad was owned by a different country that was located in Europe. The country that gained power of Chad was France. France wanted to get more wealth and land so they decided that they wanted to gain land in Africa.
For example, in 2005, 69 Liberians arrived in the U.S. on student visas, 4,880 Liberians were classified as legal permanent residents, and more than 1500 Liberians became U.S. citizens.12 Many Liberians are under temporary protective status (TPS), a temporary immigration status granted to eligible nationals of designated countries.13 Liberians have settled throughout the U.S., although communities of Liberians are more concentrated in certain areas. The concentration of Liberian community associations in different states
In the years of Europe’s series of conquest and colonization across the African landmass, the various tribes of Africa reacted either peacefully (possibly angry, just not doing anything to stop Europe), or aggressively. Many of the African tribes threatened by European expansion reacted to Europe’s violence (or warning) in peaceful, non-aggressive ways. Most of this is due to Africans having a huge military disadvantage against Europe due to their lack of modern firearms [doc 9]. Europe demanded written documents stating the surrender of African land over to the Europeans, of course, the Africans didn’t have a chance of defeating them, and so they signed their land of, sometimes without even attempting to fight back. They also had to state