North Africa

neither a sailor nor a navigator, he sponsored a great deal of exploration along the west coast of Africa. Henry is regarded as an originator of the Age of Discovery and the Atlantic slave trade. Henry was also the third surviving son of King John 1 and Phillipa of Lancaster. In 1441, two of Henry’s captains, Antam Goncalves and Nuno Tristao, set out separately, to Cape Blanco on the western coast of Africa. To the south of the Cape they came across a market run by black…

The Barbary pirates or corsairs, also known as the Ottoman corsairs, were pirates and privateers from North Africa who operated mainly from the ports of Algiers, Tunis, Sale and Tripoli. Of these states, Algiers was their strongest port of operation. The pirates frequented the Mediterranean sea and the Atlantic ocean. The Barbary pirates derive their name from the Berber tribe who inhabited these states, thereafter known as the Barbary states. It is also speculated that the West described these…

Francis Drake partook in some of the first English slaving voyages to Africa and earned a reputation for piracy against the Spanish. Sent to South America by Queen Elizabeth II in 1577, he returned home by the Pacific and thusly became the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe. The queen rewarded him with knighthood. Drake died in January 1596 of dysentery. In 1567, Drake sailed to Africa in order to join the fledgling slave trade. When he sailed to New Spain to sell his captives to…

demand of labor forces. Originally the Native Americans were enslaved, but because they were not use to the diseases that they came in contact with most of them died out. Therefore the Europeans started enslaving African which they kidnapped from West Africa. During the 1520s Portugal and Spain hired traders to ship Africans to places such as Brazil and Mexico. When the English people entered the slave trade in the 1560s, they…

that, “The slaves went through starvation, torture, filth, injustice, and so many other horrors that is it amazing any survived.” This shows how poorly slaves were treated. Slaves were transported from Africa to North America. Olaudah Equiano was one of these slaves. Equiano was kidnapped from West Africa and sold to British slave traders when he was eleven. Olaudah Equiano in his narrative The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano was treated atrociously having to live in bad…

slaves that survived the dreaded Middle Passage, disembarking in North America (Gates Jr.). The Middle Passage was the portion of the atlantic slave trade where Africans would be leaving from their…

000 years ago the climate of North Africa changed. Year by year, less rain fell. According to the textbook, “Trade…

Africa is a diverse continent that has many different aspects depending where it is. Morocco is different from most of the other countries in Africa. The different parts of countries are what makes them special and unique. The geography, politics, social behavior, religion, and economy make Morocco a unique place to live. Morocco borders the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. Mountain ranges cover the north, middle and south parts of the country. During the winter, rain collects in the…

AFRICAN STATES EFECTIVELY TO DEAL WITH SOCIO-ECONIMIC CHALLENGES? Africa is commonly known for its diverse history of the human origins and academics often use the term “cradle of human kind” with the discoveries of fossil dating ages back that resemble the human being. The forms of civilisation were also recorded to have begun is Africa specifically in Egypt which was facilitated by Africans. Regardless of the developed states in Africa majority of the states are under developed. From these…

later that century China suffered humiliating defeats to France and Japan. These loses and embarrassments led to China to join World War I. 10. Decolonization Decolonization is the intervening factors that led to the end of European colonial rule in Africa and Asia during 1945 through 1965. The factors were both domestic and international, and they varied from Empire to Empire, and from Colony to Colony. Decolonization is defined as the act of getting rid of colonization, or freeing a country…