View
64
Download
0
Category
Tags:
Preview:
DESCRIPTION
1890 1914. Early Civilizations. Early Man Early hominids: 2,000,000 years ago 10,000 civilizations began to develop Economy Farming Trade: Romans, Arabia, & India Prospered because of iron & gold supplies Society Village community: center of life - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Citation preview
1890 1914
Early CivilizationsEarly ManEarly hominids: 2,000,000 years
ago10,000 civilizations began to
developEconomy• Farming• Trade: Romans, Arabia, &
India• Prospered because of iron &
gold suppliesSociety• Village community: center of
life• Women subordinate to men,
different roles• Slavery practiced
Religion• Christianity became
official religion in 324 A.D.
• Faced conflict with Muslims starting in 12th c.
Culture• Early African arts
served religious purposes
• African music & dance had significant & lasting influence
• Oral tradition
“Scramble for Africa” 1881-1914
IndustrialRevolution
Source forRawMaterials
Markets forFinishedGoods
EuropeanNationalism
MissionaryActivity
Military& NavalBases
EuropeanMotives
For Colonization
Places toDumpUnwanted/Excess Popul.
Soc. & Eco.Opportunities
HumanitarianReasons
EuropeanRacism
“WhiteMan’sBurden”
SocialDarwinism
Berlin Conference 1884 Boundaries produced at the
conference took little stock of realities on the ground and laid the framework for more than a century of civil strife
Combined peoples of differing ethnic groups, religions, culture
Grazing rights, water rights, and land rights become issues of conflict, as well as access to political power, education, and jobs
1890 1914
Africa Culture Regions Today…
Does it match current country borders?
1948-1994: Apartheid (legal segregation) enforced by the white/British (Afrikaner) gov’t in South Africa
Apartheid in South Africa
Nelson Mandela jailed for 27 years in his fight against apartheid…
Lived to vote in the first racially democratic election….1994
And become president of South Africa…
South African President Nelson Mandela, center, flanked by his two deputy presidents, Thabo Mbeki, left and F.W. de Klerk, right,
celebrate the new constitution, May 8, 1996.
South Africa post-Apartheid Apartheid has ended but inequalities remain. Whites enjoy a standard of living similar to that of
the most developed countries. Unemployment, AIDS, lack of housing, poverty and
crime are the major problems today.
Nigeria’s Oil Industry Oil found here in 1950’s Government corruption, civil
war Oil $$ goes to the gov’t, not
the infrastructure or the people of the country.
Nigerian regulations are weak – foreign-owned oil companies self-regulate.
Criticized for not protecting the various ethnic groups/tribes & the wildlife.
Oil spills common
Republic of South Sudan
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2011/01/15/world/africa/1248069566895/southern-sudan-s-referendum.html
Sudan in civil war since 1965.
South became independent: July 9, 2011 (last summer!)
Conflicts still exist Contested boundary
lines (Abyei – see video link)
S. Sudan gained billions of dollars worth of oil
Rwanda Hutu-Tutsi Genocide
Belgian colonists favored Tutsi tribe. Divided into tribes based on looks.
Tutsi believed to be of European descent (lighter skin, taller, larger skulls)
Tutsi hold key jobs, Hutu treated poorly Belgians left Rwanda in 1961; Hutu fought
back for the years of Belgian/Tutsi repression. April 1994 - July 1994 Hutu killed Tutsi Goal: Eliminate all of the Tutsi (genocide) –
Seen as a Civil War by the world, nothing was done to stop the Hutu
100 days – Over 1 million people dead/ 20% of the country’s population (men, women, children)
Recommended