1. Warm-Up
Based on your reading of pgs , answer the following questions. You may use your notes.
What were the 3 largest Muslim empires and why were they in decline?
What problems did the Ottoman Empire face?
How did Muhammad Ali modernize Egypt?
What attracted foreigners to Persia?
Persia is modern day ___________________ (name country)

2. Redrawing the Classroom Map
How did you feel during this activity?
Why did you compete with other groups to claim the furniture?
Do you think this was a fair way to claim the furniture? Why?
What might have been a better way?
If unclaimed furniture remained, who should get it?

3. AFRICA 1850
AFRICA 1914

4. Essential Question/Objective
How did European powers come to dominate much of the world in the late 1800s?
Why did this occur?

5. Africa in the early 1800s
North Africa: the Sahara dessert and the Mediterranean coast line under Muslim Ottoman Rule
East Africa: influenced by Islam; strong trading ports like Mombasa, where cargo was slaves being shipped to the middle east
Southern Africa: The Zulu Kingdom emerged as a major force in the region under Shaka
Shaka was a brilliant and ruthless leader, raged violent wars against neighboring peoples and then absorbed the young men and women into his regiments

6. Effects of Shaka’s Rule
His conquests resulted in mass migrations and wars leaving the region in chaos.
As people migrated north they conquered people along the way creating powerful states.
One such migrating group, the Boers, descendants of Dutch colonizers now under British rule, clashed with migrating Zulus,
A bloody battle and fight for land between the Zulus and the Boers raged until the end of the century.

7. Effects of the Slave Trade
In the early 1800s most European nations had outlawed the transatlantic slave trade
Slave trade from East Africa to Asia continued through the 1800s
British Sierra Leone 1787: a colony for former slaves
Liberia 1847: an Independent republic settled by freed blacks from the United States

8. Colonization of Africa began slowly, beginning with the exterior
Colonization of Africa began slowly, beginning with the exterior. Africans wanted to trade with Europeans but did not want to “house” them

9. Dr. David Livingston
Advances in medicine and technology allow explorers to push inward
Catholic and Protestant Missionaries followed
Dr. David Livingston blazes a trail; he crisscrosses Africa for 30 years writing about the peoples he met with more sympathy and less bias than most Europeans
Journalist Henry Stanley meets Livingston in 1869 with the line, “Dr. Livingston, I presume?”

10. The Berlin Conference
As European powers sent more and more explorers into Africa, a scramble for Africa began. To avoid bloodshed European Powers met at an international conference in to divide up Africa
Conference took place in Berlin, Germany; no Africans were invited to the conference
Outcomes:
Free trade on the Congo and Niger Rivers
European power could not claim any part of Africa without first setting up a government office there
In less than 20 years the map of Africa was entirely redrawn

11. Africa, 1914

12. The Belgian Congo
Under King Leopold II of Belgium, the Congo is exploited for its resources including copper, rubber, and ivory
His personal overseers brutalized villagers forcing them to labor for almost nothing while savagely beating or mutilating them
After international outrage Leopold’s personal colony is turned over to the government of Belgium becoming the Belgian Congo in 1908 and ending the worse abuses
Africans in the Congo were given no role in the government and all the money from the mines was taken outside the country

13. Horrors in the Congo

14. Others Join the Scramble
France
Invaded and conquered Algeria in North Africa killing 10s of 1000s French soldiers and many times more Algerians
They won colonies in Tunisia and West and Central Africa
At its height, the French Empire in Africa was as large as the continental US
Great Britain
Britain has a scattered share of Africa
Controlled many heavily populated regions such as Egypt and the Sudan
Acquired the former Cape Colony from the Dutch in 1814 (South Africa)

15. The Boer War
Dutch settlers in the Cape Colony fled North once the British took over, while the British settlers remained further South
Discovery of gold and diamonds in the Boer north led to bitter guerilla fighting amongst the British and the Boers; the British eventually win
In 1910, the British unite the Cape Colony and the former Boer republics into the Union of South Africa
A constitution in South Africa set up a government run by whites and established a system of complete racial segregation

16. More Europeans Step In
Italy occupied Lybia and pushed into the “horn” of Africa at the southern end of the Red Sea
Germany takes over in eastern and southwest Africa in Cameroon and Togo
Portugal carved out large colonies in Angola and Mozambique

18. Africa Resists!
Algerians battled the French in West Africa with Samori Toure fighting to build his own empire
The British battle the Zulus in South Africa and the Asante in West Africa
The Asantes fight under their queen Yaa Asantewewaa
Germans fought wars in East Africa
Maji-Maji Rebellion of led to a German victory only after they had burned acres and acres of farmland leaving 1000s of local people to die of starvation

19. Maji Rebel Leaders

20. Ethiopia Survives
Ethiopia was an ancient Christian kingdom in East Africa that had been divided up among a number of rival princes who ruled their own domain or territory
In the late 1800s a reforming ruler Melenik II began to modernize Ethiopia
He hired Europeans to plan modern roads and bridges and set up a Western school system
He imported the latest weapons and European officers to train his army
In 1896 Ethiopia successfully repelled Italian invaders
Ethiopia was one of only two African nations to preserve its independence