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16 Cards in this Set
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Kingdoms before European presense
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-Mali and Songhai Empires (1050-1500, 1350-1600)
-University system at Timbuktu -Rich Goldfields |
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Rich Goldfields
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Gold exports to other countries
- very rich empires, lots of resources -top parts of the world for the academic worlds for knowledge |
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Initial European contact and challenges they faced
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-Portuguese explorers were first to explore coastal states
-died from diseases they would get from the African countries |
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Berlin Conference
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1884-1885;
-decided to do this because colonization got so chaotic -needed ground rules -each European country could "call" a territory of land in which they call their spheres of influence - had to have presense of ground to show that you claimed that territory |
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Spatial Control: Which European country controlled where
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-Britain: West African, Bechuanaland (Bostwana), Rhodeia (zambia, simbabewe), Cecil Rhods "Cape to Cairo"
-France: North Africa and areas inland from West African coast (french language) -Germany: scattered territories -Portugal: Angola and Mozambique -Italy: Somalia and Eritrea |
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Indirect Rule
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Nigeria, French and Belgian colonies.
- ruling through existing traditional leaders -elevated status of particular ethnic groups in the colonial administration -taxation |
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Direct Rule, non settler states
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Senegal, Mali, Rwanda
-French West African, Portuguese Angola -Assimilation -If you learned french history you became french -taxation |
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Direct Rule, settler states
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Kenya, Rhodesia (Zimbabew)
-European settlers -Hierarchical racial classification -Politics -Economy. Taxation poll taxes |
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Settler States
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the people from the European countries were migrating to these states to settle there
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Socio-cultural
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-Multiracial societies
-introducing themselves as their background not where they were born -Breakdown of local forms of authority |
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New divisions of labor
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-Gender and spatial division of labor
-enduring cultural importance of land -circular migration to urban center |
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Political: Colonial Legacies
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-National borders
-states with many nations -nations without a state -Within the state of nigeria, you have many nations within |
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Economic: Colonial Legacies
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Supplier of unprocessed agricultural raw materials and minerals to industrialized countries
-European Union main trading partner -Reliance on fluctuating prices of relatively few exports European Union is still the number 1 exchanging country |
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Apartheid
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The policy of racial separateness that directed the separate residential and work spaces for white, blacks, coloureds, and Indians in South African for nearly 50 years. It was abolished when the African national Congress came to power in 1994
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Homelands
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is the concept of the place (cultural geography) to which an ethnic group holds a long history and a deep cultural association with —the country in which a particular national identity began.
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know this
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Katanga (Shaba) province of Zaire tried to secede soon after independence, which countries helped crush the ‘rebellion’
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