African empires

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were years of growth for the great empires of Europe. Two of these empires, the Portuguese and the Spanish, looked to expand their territories and power while seeking land not only throughout Europe, but also across the Atlantic in the Americas. Both empires commenced their expansions by sending conquistadors to discover and colonize land in the New World. Once they arrived, both the Spanish and Portuguese conquistadors, with the help of the native…

There are a number of reasons which contributed to the decline of the British Empire. The aftermath of the second world war played a massive role as we saw a struggle in the British economy. The end of the war was extremely costly to Britain which had an impact on her colonies. Britain’s withdrawal from India and the Suez Crisis both exposed the weakness of the British empire. It became clear that Britain could no longer act dependently with the amount of burdens she had and this idea of great…

The Aztec empire grew weaker under his reign as he called for large numbers of tributes and sacrifices. Chapter 16.4- The Inca Create a Mountain Empire The Inca Build an Empire: The Inca kingdom was established in the Valley of Cuzco. Traditions and beliefs were developed to unify the empire during the Incan beginnings. One Incan ruler, Pachacuti, built Incan into an empire through diplomacy and military force. Inca showed tolerance to conquered…

Introduction The empire of Mali was formed in the year of 1230 in Mali. The empire was formed by a man named Sundiata Keita, also known as ‘lion king’, and had many other leaders after his death. The most popular ruler was Mansa Musa, because of his extreme wealth and introducing Islam into the empire. The empire lost power in the 14 hundreds,after the death of Musa, but totally fell apart and ended in the year of 1600 lasting 370 years, the lack of leadership after his death was the main reason…

Political Transformations 1450 - 1750 During these three centuries, building an empire was the norm. In this era, several empire flourished such as the Aztec and Inca of America. The Spanish, Portuguese, French, British, and Dutch people also built their own empires and strived to expand them in different parts of the world. One of the earliest modern empire built was those of the western part of Europe. Europe’s empires were mostly on the American region due to proximity. Trading and movement…

Ghana was the very first west African empire to have trading systems going all throughout Africa. Ghana was the very first in the whole wide world to make and use iron weapons making that invention a gold mine in trading. Speaking of gold mines, Ghana had too many of them! They had so much gold they didn’t know what to do with it. They used it in women’s makeup so it would grab women’s attention in Ghana’s trading system also. They put their gold on weapons such as shields just because they…

The major traders were North African Arabs who came to the trade routes for gold in exchange for salt. This event corresponds with the key concept 2.3.III. The picture shows a building made The Trans-Saharan trade routes allowed the exchange of people, technology, religious and cultural beliefs, food crops, and domesticated animals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Saharan_trade Fall of Rome - 476 The fall of Rome is when the Western half of the Roman Empire fell to Germanic…

In 1497 Portuguese mariner Vasco Da Gama set sail to find a sea route to Asia. He went slowly down the West African coast, around the tip of South Africa, and up the East African coast and landed in Calicut, South India. They found an ancient and rich network of commerce that stretched from East Africa to China. Asia offered many tropical spices that were desired in Europe, such as cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, cloves, and pepper. These spices were used mostly as condiments and preservatives. Other…

the “freedom” of natives, actually comes from the education that the colonizers taught to the locals. Ironically, this idea of “freedom” that was taken away by Western European empires is the same freedom ideology perpetuated by religious, political and educational institutions brought by Europeans. For the British Empire, once a colonized society implemented the establishments brought by the British, it became difficult to forbid the same political liberties that Britain had applied to herself.…

the shortest route was across the Atlantic. Columbus believed the issue was not the shape of the earth, but its size. He thought it to be only about 3,000 miles. The Portuguese, however, were convinced that the world was much larger, and that the African route was still the shortest route causing them to reject Columbus’ request. Two years later while he was in Spain, he won the support of Queen Isabella. With the increased political and financial strength of the monarchy, Spain could bear the…