V Atlantic Africa and the Creation of the Atlantic World, 1400–1700
- Watch Module 4 Video (Links to an external site.)
- Go through Art Slides, Chapter VIII
- Go through the power point presentation “Southern Africa, 1500-1870”
- Watch the entire Part 6 (52 minutes), entitled “Commerce and the Clash of Civilizations,” (Links to an external site.) of the video series “Africa’s Great Civilizations” by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (FIU Library Streaming)
- Go through Art Slides, Chapter IX
- Go through the power point presentation “Religious Movement and State-Building in Nineteenth Century Africa”
- Watch the entire Part 6 (52 minutes), entitled “Commerce and the Clash of Civilizations,” of the video series “Africa’s Great Civilizations” by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (FIU Library Streaming)
As you engage with the questions below, you should clearly mark which question you are dealing with in a specific answer by indicating its number.
- Discuss the ways that Christians and Muslims sought to justify the enslavement of captured or purchased people. (Chapter V)
- How did the lançados and Eurafrican traders combine aspects of African and European culture? (Chapter V)
- Why were Portuguese slaving operations in Angola so different from their practices on the Gold Coast and the Sierra Leone coast? (Chapter V)
- What were the advantages and disadvantages of having an army made up of soldiers of slave origin, such as the Segu army in the eighteenth century? (Chapter VI)
- Describe the differences between the trading systems of centralized states and those of the decentralized trading societies along the Niger and Congo Rivers. (Chapter VI)
- What economic activity made the Mascarene Islands different from other European outposts in the Indian Ocean? (Chapter VII)
- What happened to the old Mamluk aristocracy after the Ottoman conquest of Egypt? (Chapter VII)
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