Chapter 15 Q&A’s 1. The Maritime Revolution: * Starts because of Ferdinand Magellan * Expedition to reach East Indies * Maritime era marked end of a long period. * Broadened and deepened contacts‚ alliances‚ & conflicts across ancient cultural boundaries. 2. Global Maritime Expansion Before 1450: * Strong ships were needed * New sailing techniques * Rewards for sea travel made them worthwhile 3. The Pacific Ocean: * Polynesians originated in Asia
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Africa is the world’s poorest and most underdeveloped continent with a continental GDP that accounts for just 2.4% of global GDP. 11. Almost 40% of adults in Africa are illiterate – twothirds are women. Adult literacy rates are below 50% in Benin‚ Burkina Faso‚ Chad‚ Ethiopia‚ Guinea‚ Mali‚ Niger‚ Senegal‚ Sierra Leone and The Gambia. 12. Over 25 million people are HIVpositive on the continent and over 17 million have died of the disease already. 13. The Second Congo War claimed over 5
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Development of Modern Africa Scared or Greedy: Incentives Surrounding the African Slave Trader The role Africans played in the Atlantic slave trade is a hotly debated topic by historians and intellectuals for a reason. Those Africans who participated in the Atlantic slave trade did so under many different influences and motivations. The reasons to partake in the slave trade differed from the particular class‚ culture‚ and geographic region of the African traders. Because the African continent
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the United Nations Children’s Fund had concluded that many ivory Coast farmers used slaves‚ and the U.S. State Department‚ in its Year 2000 Human Rights Report‚ estimated that in recent years over l5‚000 children from the neighboring nations of Benin‚ Burkina Faso‚ Mali‚ and Togo had been sold into slavery in the ivory Coast. Alinight-Ridder newspaper investigation published on Tune 24‚2001 called additional attention to the use of the slave boys on Ivory Coast cocoa farms and largely
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NIGERIA The Federal Republic of Nigeria comprises thirty six states and its Federal Capital Territory is Abuja. Nigeria is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west‚ Chad and Cameroon in the east‚ and Niger in the north. Its coast in the south lies on the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean. The Flag The flag of Nigeria consists of three equal sized vertical stripes - the right and left stripe are green; and the middle stripe is white. The Nigerian
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most popular and well known. The Yoruba are the tribe that many Africans confess that their family roots started from and therefore follow the religion and culture of the Yoruba. These people are indigenous to the Southwestern parts of Nigeria and Benin. They may not be the only tribe in Africa‚ but they certainty have an interesting culture along with one of the oldest ancestry lines. The Yoruba have a culture and history that is unique in its own way and meaning. According to the oral history
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Chapter 8 – African Civilizations and the Spread of Islam •The spread of Islam in Africa linked its regions to the outside world through trade‚ religion‚ and politics •States like Mali and Songhai are built on military power and dynastic alliances •Parts of sub-Saharan Africa entered into the expanding world network; many others remained isolated •Christianity and Islam sometimes influenced political and cultural development Empires of the Western Sudan (West/Northwest Africa) th th Ghana:
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The article‚ “Why we should all be pro-life” written by Joseph Meany‚ is an effective persuasive piece‚ with strong in appeals to rhetorical proofs of logos‚ ethos and pathos. Despite this‚ it was personally received as a negotiated reading due to the featuring of unsourced "facts" and statistics‚ whilst additionally being flawed with fallacies of induction. The opening of the persuasive piece laid a foundation of facts to start the argument off strongly‚ appealing to the rhetoric proof appeal to
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country. The Yoruba homeland can be located in West Africa. It stretches from a savanna (grassland) region in the north to a region of tropical rain forests in the south. Most Yoruba live in Nigeria. However there are also some scattered groups in Benin and Togo‚ small countries to the west of Nigeria. Current census figures are difficult to obtain. The Yoruba population is estimated to be 5.3 million. The occupations and living conditions of the Yoruba in the north and south differ from one another
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DANGOTE CEMENT PLC Introduction Dangote Cement Plc is part of the Dangote Group. Dangote Cement Plc was initially incorporated as Obajana Cement Plc on 4th November 1992 by the Kogi State Government to operate plants for the preparation‚ manufacture‚ control‚ research and distribution of cement and related products. In 2002‚ Dangote Industries Limited (DIL) bought over Obajana Cement Plc from Kogi State Government and commenced the construction of the Company’s first cement production plant in
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