African History and Imperialism (1).pdf

Ben Welsh Period 7 African History and Imperialism...

Ben Welsh Period 7 African History and Imperialism May 9, 2024 Page 412 - Question 5: The Islamic religion had a major role in the political history of North Africa starting with its empires. Two groups of Muslim reformers founded some of the first African empires, the Almoravid Empire and Almohad Empire. Additionally, the development of Islamic law, which was more popular than the regular law, helped bring Africa’s politics at the time to order, in addition to creating an orderly religion. Page 412 - Question 7: Because the Muslim law regulated both the religious and personal lives of their people, it brought together the Muslims in peaceful ways so that they were able to not only unify because of their religion, but also as a part of their personal lives. Additionally, the Berbers, independent mountain dwellers, founded the two Muslim empires that brought lots of unification in Africa, uniting the Maghrib, a part of North Africa, under Muslim rule. Page 419 - Question 3: The gold came from a forest region in Africa where miners dug out the gold, mostly in West Africa. However, what made the gold-salt trade work was that West Africa lacked salt, which was essential to human life. The trade occurred across the Sahara Desert, and there were specific trading cities where the merchants met in the desert. The trade was also very secure, and there were officials that oversaw the trading. Page 419 - Question 4: Sunni Ali built his empire mainly through his dominant military conquest. He built a great army with forces on land and water, and he was also able to expand his empire through his great abilities as a leader, and from how aggressive of a leader he was. He ended up capturing two cities, one of them being Timbuktu, a very famous and powerful city, and a trading city where he developed a strong army. Page 427 - Question 6 Both the Portuguese and the rulers of the Mutapa Empire were conquerors, and they were both very interested in dominating the trade business and acquiring as much wealth as possible. Because the Portuguese saw lots of wealth in East African cities, they decided to conquer them and use them as cities to begin their trading conquests. In contrast, the Mutapa empire acquired a lot of their wealth through gold mining, which they were very successful at. Page 427 - Question 7 The development of East African trade had many positive effects on many different African cultural groups. For example, through trade, the Bantu-speaking people and the Arabs began to interact with one another, and this created a new language so they were able to trade more easily. Additionally, the trade introduced the religion Islam to the east coast of Africa, which eventually led to the development of cities that became primarily Islamic. Page 427 - Question 8 Swahili was a language that was made between the Bantu speakers and Arabs, who often traded with each other. Although they were very different types of people, with different customs and ways of life, they were able to develop a form of communication with each other which was needed for both of them to be successful. Because their cultures were different, Swahili was needed for them so that they could have peaceful relations with each other and communicate effectively. Page 778 - Question 6 From the Berlin Conference, the Europeans seem like they do not care at all about the customs and culture of the Africans at all. The Europeans talked about taking their land without considering the Africans and their land at all, and this is very similar to what they did with the native Australians. Additionally, no African rulers were invited to the Berlin Conference meetings, and this is where the fate of the African regions was decided, so this was very unfair to the native Africans living there. Page 778 - Question 7 The Africans would justifiably not want people that were trying to steal their land from them to sell them products to earn themselves more wealth from the Africans. Furthermore, the native Africans, much like other native people at this time in different countries, preferred their own traditional way of life, and they did not believe in industrialization coming from the European countries during the Industrial Revolution, and they did not want it to travel to their own countries. Page 778 - Question 8 After splitting up these groups of people that have shared a culture for so long, it could result in discrimination within the separated groups. This is because they might begin to develop new ideas, and these ideas may not be accepted between both separated groups. Moreover, communication difficulties could arise between the two groups, and this could result in a loss of culture and language that used to exist successfully between the groups before the separation.