French West Africa

agricultural origin in Latin America. Its domestication began 5000 – 7000 years BC in the Amazon, Brazil (Alves, 2002) and it was distributed by Europeans to the rest of the world (Henry and Hershey, 2002). Cassava was taken from Brazil to the West coast of Africa by Portuguese traders in the 16th century (Jones, 1959; Nweke, 1994). Cassava is highly tolerant to drought. It is well adapted to areas with a long dry season and uncertain rainfall, thus qualifying as the crop of choice for…

From the foundation of the colonies beginning with the founding of Jamestown until the beginning of the Revolutionary War, different regions of the eastern coast had different characteristics. Once established, the thirteen British colonies could be divided into three geographic areas: New England, Middle, and Southern. Each of these had specific economic, social, and political developments that were unique to the regions. New England Colonies: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode, and…

European Imperialism in Africa had a negative effect on both Africa and the rest of the world by destroying African society, technology and culture. Europe, In the late 1800’s made its way into Africa. As Africa grew countries such as France, Britain, and Germany came in for personal benefits and started taking their resources. These European powers went into Africa destroying their society, materials, and culture because they only cared about their strength and resources. Africa was an easy…

the world. Industrialization encouraged European nations to abide other countries for resources, such as Africa. They wanted more resources to fuel their industrial production. Many nations look towards Africa as resource because it had raw materials and was a great marketplace for industrial products. Slowly during the 19th and 20th centuries, many Europeans raced to gain the vast areas of Africa to obtain resources such as, gold and diamonds. As a result this brought imperialism, which seizes…

Section 1 Q4: Some of the internal factors that contributed to imperialism in Africa was that Africa was known for their raw materials like gold, diamond, and more. In 1867, there was the discoveries of diamonds. In 1886, there was discoveries of gold, both in South Africa. This made it more tempting for the British to take over Africa. Another factor, was that the British had more updated weapons like the Maxim gun. The Maxim gun was the first world's automatic machine gun so that the British…

dismantling the rebels that are in the eastern region. In the west, deep-seated tensions exist in rural areas as a result of isolation, unemployment, poverty and malnutrition. I going to explain…

tobacco. I chose those things to talk about based on common denominator. That being Slave trade. Because of the slave trade I believe these other things were made possible. Now according to the Atlantic system the only thing being shipped away from Africa was Slaves and gold. Now what I noticed is that the areas the slaves are being taken to also export large amounts of Sugar, manufactured goods, and tobacco. Slaves being exported to South America have an insane export of sugar. Slaves were…

imperialism politically, economically, and socially and they were both positive and negative. There were many countries that were imperialised, but the six countries focused on this unit were China, Congo, French West Africa/ Madagascar, India, Kenya, and Nigeria. The effects of European imperialism in Africa and Asia were positive economically because countries were now able to trade with more countries, but the effects were negative socially because the Europeans believed in racial superiority…

religious or ethics. Despite heterogeneous structure in plantations, differences were reduced by their common points at America such as harsh working conditions and living in same places. In Mainland North America where slave transportation from Africa were considerably less, people could create creoles as a distinct unity more easily than Caribbean and Brazil. The communication between slaves from different nations was continuous in these lands such as…

slaves and free Blacks from the United States. Several factors led to the initial support of colonization in this nation and clergy, merchants, and slaveholder’s established the national organization to send over four-thousand Blacks to the West Coast of Africa. In this essay I will delve into the economic, social, and political reasons for colonization in Liberia. Support for colonization and the desire to remove freed slaves and free Blacks emerged within the institution of enslavement. In…