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12.2 The Partition of Africa

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France, Britain, and Germany, and other European nations began a scramble for African Territories, and after 20 years, dominated millions of Africans. The Yao and other resisted, but could not prevent conquest

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Africa in The early 1800s

Africa was a huge continent, three times the size of Europe. There were hundreds of languages and varied governments. There were large states, all the way down to village communities.

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Introduction

France, Britain, and Germany, and other European nations began a scramble for African Territories, and after 20 years, dominated millions of Africans. The Yao and other resisted, but could not prevent conquest

Africa in The early 1800s

Africa was a huge continent, three times the size of Europe. There were hundreds of languages and varied governments. There were large states, all the way down to village communities.

North Africa

North Africa includes Sahara Desert and fertile lands among the Mediterranean. The religion was a part of the Muslim World. It remained under the rule of the Ottoman empire.

Islamic Crusades in West Africa

Islamic Revivals spread across west Africa, beginning among the Fulani people in northern Nigeria. Usman dan Fodio, a preacher and scholar, denounced the corruption of local Hausa leaders and called for social and religious reforms on the sharia, or Islamic law. This inspired Fulani herders and Hausa townspeople to rise up against European rulers. They set up a powerful Islamic state in northern Nigeria, where under their rule, literacy increased, local wars quieted, and trade improved, and other Muslim reform movements. Over the course of a century (1780-1880) more than a dozen Islamic leaders rose to power and replaced old leaders, and founded new states in western Sudan. In the forest Regions, strong states, such as the Asante, rose to power. The Asantes traded with Europeans and Muslims and controlled many smaller states. These tributary states were ready to turn to anyone even Europeans who would help overthrow Asante leaders.

1 > george s. boutwell

2 > general ulysses s. grant

3 > james a. garfeild

4 > adolph e. borie