Three Worlds Collide: Columbus' Effect on the Old World and the New

Question 1

Center of the world trade from 1200-1450?

Answer 1

The Abbasid Empire in Saudi Arabia

Question 2

What were gold and slaves from Africa traded for?

Answer 2

Steel and salt

Question 3

The gold was sent to China and India and traded what?

Answer 3

Spices, silk and tea

Question 4

Prince Henry the Navigator learned about what in 1417? Where?

Answer 4

the gold trade while on crusade in Ceuta in 1417

Question 5

Prince Henry decided to find the source of the gold by exploring where?

Answer 5

The coast of Africa

Question 6

In 1417 who controlled gold?

Answer 6

The Kingdom of Mali controlled the gold

Question 7

Why couldn’t Prince Henry establish colonies on the Mali coast?

Answer 7

The Islamic rulers of Mali drove Prince Henry’s men out

Question 8

Where did Henry look after? Why?

Answer 8

Henry looked further south for a trading partner

Question 9

Songhai was a tribute state to the Mali Empire

Answer 9

Songhai

Question 10

Songhai was willing to trade ___ for ___

Answer 10

Songhai was willing to trade GOLD for GUNS

Question 11

What did Songhai used its new weapons for?

Answer 11

To take control of the Mali Empire

Question 12

By 1450 what did Portugal and Songhai manage to do?

Answer 12

They managed to take the gold trade over entirely

Question 13

Why couldn’t Songhai keep Portuguese ships full?

Answer 13

Songhai did not have enough gold

Question 14

What and to who did Songhai begin to sell by the 1460’s?

Answer 14

Songhai began selling prisoners of war to the Portugese as slaves

Question 15

These slaves were brought to Portugal where rich elites bought them to use as house servants and personal attendants

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Question 16

Under Islamic law, non-muslim prisoners of war could be kept as slaves

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Question 17

These slaves were used as personal servants, and were considered a symbol of status for successful nobles and warriors

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Question 18

Under Islamic laws, these slaves were freed after seven years of service.

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Question 19

Many remained free servants of their owners by choice.

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Question 20

When Columbus got to the new world he instantly realized there was tremendous money to be made by building colonies there

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Question 21

But he had a little trouble getting the natives to help build them

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Question 22

Africans proved more robust against the disease and back breaking labo Europeans demanded.

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Question 23

By 1500 the Portugese began using enslaved Africans to build sugar plantations in Brazil

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Question 24

The Spanish quickly copied them

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Question 25

Suddenly a slave was no longer a personal status symbol- he/she was raw anmal labor, and a source of massive profits

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Question 26

In the mid 1500’s Songhai tried to kick the Portugese out of Africa and put an end to the slave trade.

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Question 27

Portugal cut off trade with Songhai, and started trading guns for slaves with Benin instead.

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Question 28

With Songhai’s supply of guns cut off they were quickly conquered by Benin

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Question 29

The Shift from the gold-salt trade to the transatlantic slave trade destroyed the economies of Mali and the Middle East- both are still poor today

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Question 30

Paying one African nation after another to capture and enslave other Africans started a cycle of perpetual warfare that still exists in much of Africa today

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Question 31

As many as 40 million Africans were forced from their homes between 1450 and 1878. Nearly 80 million died in wars during this time, preventing most African nations from achieving a large enough population to build a strong self-sufficient economy. All of the poorest nations in the world today are in Africa as a result

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Question 32

The production of sugar, bananas, and cotton on North and South American plantations robbed African nations of their most valuable agricultural exports- further damaging the African economy.

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Question 33

The discontinuation of trans-Saharan trade routes led to the decline of most major interior cities in Africa

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