Portuguese and Africa
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| 474226129 | What was the Portuguese's original goal when they came to Africa? | ) -to get direct access to the gold fields of West Africa without going through the middle man, Muslim Kingdoms of the Sudan who dominated trade there. | |
| 474226130 | What did the Portuguese want from the Kingdom of Mali? How did they try to accomplish that? How did the King of Mali respond? | ) -wanted to be involved in direct trade of gold with mali -sent representatives with Muslim Dyula traders to Mali -rejected by King | |
| 474226131 | What did Portugal do after being rejected by mali? | ) -1482, tried to form relationship with Akan kingdom by exchanging firearm, copper and brass objects, textiles, slaves, and later cowrieshells for gold in return for 20,000 ounces of gold each year as long as they stay honost | |
| 474226132 | What is the Gold Coast? | ) -present day Ghana -place of major gold trading business (?) -Potrugal arrived there looking for gold in 1471 | |
| 474226133 | What is the Kingdom of Benin and its relationship with Portugal? | ) -kingdom of sw Nigeria, call their kings obas, strong gov and army, unimaginable art -1486, Portuguese entered oba Ozuola's court and received Maltese-type cross as gift = hope to convert them to Christianity, did a little and traded a little but never fully trusted by Benin, kept at a distance -traded their stuff for pepper, ivory, cloth, beads, and slaves then traded slaves with Akan states for gold | |
| 474226134 | What is the Kongo Kingdom and how did it react to Portugal? | ) -vast kingdom largely influenced by queen mother -first thought of P as earth/water spirits but King Nzinga Nkuwu looked to them as a major ally against neighboring African states inviting them to send teachers, technicians, missionaries, and sldiers -His son Nzinga Knuwu (d. 1543) converted himself and the state to Catholicism and official language to Portuguese, encouraging European traditions and changing name to Don Afonso | |
| 474226135 | What happened to the Kongo-Portuguese relationship? | ) -Portugal upset with cloth products from Kongo went crazy kidnapping people as slaves and weakening Kongo -Afonso begged King Manuel to help but was shot by slavers -started war -1571, Portugal established colony on boarder of Kongo, meant to be white colony but nothing really happened there, became Afro-Portuguese | |
| 474226136 | Why where the Swahili city-states tempting targets for the Portuguese? How did they conquer them? | ) -they were located in a good place for trade with Asia -they were rarely engaged in war or had large military forces so they were easy to conquer with P naval force -invaded and burnt most states, made alliance with Malinda | |
| 474226137 | What did Portugal do after cnquering the Swahili city-states? | ) -tried to keep internal trade going -built fort in Mombasa to intimidate other cities and support naval operations against Turks and Arabs in Red Sea -trade stayed normal but local industries disappeared -1698, Omani Arabs expel P, Swahili happy | |
| 474226138 | Why were the P drawn to the Zimbabwe Plateau? What did they do there? | ) ++++++ -needed their gold mines (really only rumer) -needed gold to get spices from Indian Ocean -1506, seized Sofala taking over Muslim's gold trade -established relationship with Mutapa but ended when M king ordered death of Jesuit Missionary in 1560 -trading settlement in Zambazi went bad anyways because no gold there -later Mutapa needed help from P in war, signing treaty in 1607 -eventually M got powerful and kicked P out | |
| 474333413 | Prestor John | )+++++ -tale of mythical Ethiopian christian monarch holding Muslims at bay | |
| 474333414 | Eleni | )+++++ -Duaghter of muslim king who married ethiopian emperor Baeda Maryam -wrote treaty to Portugal for alliance against Turks | |
| 474333415 | Summary of Portugal | +++++++ | |
| 474333416 | Hispaniola | )+++ -where most of spanish conquering occured | |
| 474333417 | aztecs | )+++ -S had issues with this powerful tribe in the gulf coast | |
| 474333418 | Hornando cortez | ) +++ -sent to beat Aztecs, made allies, surprised them with weapons -Moctezuma = aztec emperor, heald off cortez until cortez's lutienant attached unarmed nobles causing religious war -cortez lost at first but with help from indians and smallpox epidemic, won, took over aztects land and made new spain | |
| 474333419 | Ferdinand Magellan | ++++ -encouaged by Vasco de Balboa -1520 took 99 day voyage to phillipines, got involved in their conflicts and disease killed most of his men, only one baot returned | |
| 474333420 | Atagualpa | )++ -took throne of inca state, issues with succession weakened imperial unity and allowed spanish to take over | |
| 474333421 | Francisco Pizzaro | )+++ - along with Almagro conquered Cuzco -took over Peru -Almagro murdered Pizzaro= civil war | |
| 474333422 | Summary of Spain | +++++ |
