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1400
Golden age Exploration
The Europeans started by sailing south to Africa in an attempt to get to the wealth of silks and spices that were found in India and China. -
1400
Slavery
When the Europeans traded the slaves with America they got goods while Africans were suffering of voyage to go work for the Americans. -
1400
More slavery
Unfortunately later the Europeans started slavery with the Africans and started taking Africans away from Africa to America so they could be put to work by making sugar, rice, and cotton. -
1400
Slavery Exploration
Doing this Europeans learned more about how Africans are wealthy and their culture but later started trading goods with the Africans. -
1400
Travel
Unfortunately during the travel from Africa to American lots of Africans died during the journey. -
1500
Colonization
When slavery began lots of the Europeans took over the country and started building trade routes -
1500
Colonization
When the Europeans took over they knew that Africa had a lot of resources and important trade routes that they wanted control over. -
1500
Colonization
Britain started by taking over Egypt to control the Suez Canal that is a man made waterway connecting from the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea together. -
1500
Colonization
Britain got more land over in the western central and southern part of Africa. -
Colonization
By the 1900’s Europe had taken over almost all of Africa and the only country that wasn’t taken over was Ethiopia but then Italy divided it in 1930 -
Colonization
In the mid 1900’s it inspired the event of world war 2 that Africans began to seriously rebel against the colonizations. -
Colonization
By the 1900 Europe had taken almost everything Africa had. -
South Africa
A member of the ANC, Steven Biko was beaten to death by police. -
South Africa
In 1910 South Africa was able to be independent from Great Britain. -
Colonization
In the 1920’s Kenyas people set up and organization to fight for freedom from Great Britain. -
Colonization
The worst country to be established by Europe was the Belgium Congo because almost all africans suffered from violence. -
South Africa
In the 1948 whites would demanded blacks to work for hours. -
South Africa
In 1948 white Africans know as Afrikaners made apartheid laws. -
South Africa
Steven Biko’s story was then made into a song by Peter Gabriel. -
Sudan
Sudan got to be independent from Great Britain in 1956. -
Sudan
After Sudan got independence the people in the south rebelled against the northern ruling. -
Independence
Belgium Congo became independent in 1960 and the country wasn’t a stable, fair government place for people to go. -
Independence
When the Europeans took over they started making boarders to the different country’s and did it with out thinking where different ethnic groups were located. -
Rwanda
Rwanda is a small country that was divided by two ethnic groups before Rwanda became a Belgium colony, the group Tutsi and Hutu ruled together. -
Rwanda
When colonization came the Belgium government wanted the Tutsi group to control the Hutu group and put the Hutu group to work. -
Rwanda
When Independence came to Rwanda all of their violence broke out and the Hutu group took over. -
Colonization
It took lots of years for Kenya to become independent but it finally did in 1963 -
South Africa
Nelson Mandela was another fighter but soon was arrested and sentenced to life in prison for his actions. -
Zaire
The suffering of the people in Congo continued for a very long time. -
More Independence
In 1965 Joseph Mobutu took over and renamed the country to Zaire. The people were suffering because of his violence and people didn’t have a very happy life there.