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    them. Imperialism impacted these countries in very different ways. Imperialism impacted Southeast Asia, Africa, India, Latin America, and Japan by country taking over one another and how it impacted the people living there. How did imperialism affect Southeast Asia and Africa and how did Europe a part of this. In the late 1400s and early 1500s, european traders explored Southeast Asia and Africa and they wanted direct control of the raw materials and the markets that were in Southeast

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    preserve him in health so that he might return home safely” (93). Through the story of John Emmanuel Ocansey, Phillips has exposed the exploitation present in the history of Liverpool. Phillips black identity is the main cause for his alienation. Even in Africa people asks questions about his belongingness. He describes this feeling in the airplane scene he relates in the "Homeward Bound" chapter. When Phillips takes his seat and closes the eyes to take a short sleep. But a question from his flight partner

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    decline as the cost of using slave labor began to outweigh the possible advantages. During the 1600s, the Atlantic slave trade transformed from a small enterprise to a bustling field of opportunity. Over twenty thousand slaves were being exported from Africa per year. That number transformed into over eighty thousand in the 1780s. While many African nations resisted the capturing of slaves, other African peoples, such as the Asante, Dahomey, and Oyo, embraced slave traders. These

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    Prior to the colonization of Africa, the continent was commonly referred to as “dark”. Contrary to that claim Africa was a place with complex societies, cultural diversity, vast languages, and abundant with resources and knowledge. Eurocentric historians and anthropologists commonly overlook this gold mine of historical events and anthropological data. With respect to history there is a lack in written documentation and written entities due to the fact that African societies commonly used the oral

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    Atlantic Slave Trade Imagine being on a ship rocking back and forth, side to side, chained to people you might not even know. The Atlantic Slave Trade or Transatlantic Slave trade was a boat that West African slaves rode on across the Atlantic ocean. The Atlantic Slave Trade made a huge impact on lives; people getting taking away from their families, children scared and not knowing what to do. To begin, the Atlantic Slave Trade or another name for it was Transatlantic Slave Trade was a boat

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    Empire was dominated by Islam, due to the widespread Islamic merchants and conversions that occurred in during kingdoms. This is significant because it demonstrates that goods weren’t the sole exchange and that religion was able to penetrate West Africa and impact the native people. The main motive for this mass adaptation of Islam as the dominant religion stems from strategic aims, from previous kingdoms, to diminish possible attacks from Muslim territories across the Sahara. This created alliance

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    The second chapter of Africans and their History starts off with discussing the very beginning of African civilizations which includes talking about Charles Darwin’s The Descent of Man and how the first people originated from Africa instead of Asia like people once thought. The chapter also delves into how the beings before homo-sapiens began to evolve and slowly learn new skills. Some of these skills include hunting, creating fire, learning to make clothes and many other useful strategies to for

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    question is 11,000 BC, the beginning of village life, 13,000 years ago. Diamond summarizes human history up to that point, starting with humans’ evolution from monkeys 7 million years ago and the Homo erectus 2.5 million years ago, all restricted to Africa and spread from there. The Great Leap Forward corresponds with the first known inhabitants of Eurasia and Australia/New Guinea. Human colonization of new continents and islands links to the extinction of many species, known as the overkill hypothesis

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    as Asia and Africa. There came a time when after slavery there was some need to imperialize in the world. So then the Europeans found a huge landmass called Africa and wanted to imperialize it. The main driving forces of the sudden European imperialism in Africa would be natural resources, land/power, and trade access. The European imperialism would be a collaborated effort between the countries of France, England, and many other countries. A fine motive in the imperialism in Africa would be the

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    Assess the significance of the role of individuals in bringing about the expansion and dismantling of the British Empire in Africa in the period c1870-c1981. The two factors that led to the formal occupation of North Africa in 1882 was economic and political factors. Britain wanted to protect their economic interests such as their investment in The Suez Canal. In 1875 Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli bought a 44% share in the Suez Canal- this was ultimately beneficial for Britain as this was a cheaper

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