Directions: After reading the chapter in your textbook, Read and Consider the following study materials very carefully, and Answer the study questions as succinctly as possible.
 
 

 
Stavrianos, Ch. 5  AFRICA  

1.  Characterize Africa’s development in the fifteenth century: 
 geography 
 climate 
 technology 
 disease 
 states and empires 
 trade routes 
 economic control by Africans 
 commercialism 
 African (as opposed to European-generated world market slavery)   
 

2.  How did commercial capitalism change this? 

    a.  European technology 
    b.  proletarianization of the peasantry; displaced labor force 
    c.  mass trade in necessities 
    d.  international market economy; expansionist, aggressive 
    e.  the pattern of European slavery in Africa 
      1.  middlemen except in Portugese Angola 
      2.  numbers of slaves? Significance of the numers? 
      3.  firearms 
      4.  compare with older African forms of slavery
    f.  longterm results 

      1.  political 
      2.  trade 
      3.  vertical linkages 
      4.  defeated local industry; horizontal linkages 
      5.  depopulatio

       

      3. What is the relationship between the Atlantic Slave trade and the rise of Europe to world pre-eminence and wealth? 
       
       


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