HISB51H3 Lecture Notes - Royal Niger Company, Samori Ture, Tippu Tip
Document Summary
Map quiz: study colonies, countries, major lakes, rivers, and capital cities. Expansion of industrial capitalism: desire for markets and raw materials: finance capitalism looking for new investments. Rise of african entrepreneurs and middle men via legitimate trade desire to cut them out. Theories of scientific racism and social darwinism. Germany looking for a place in the sun. Only liberia and ethiopia were independent countries that were not colonized. Scientific knowledge; exploration: geography; botany; medicine (quinine) Chartered companies (royal niger company, british south africa company, Alliance with african allies (e. g. fante in gold coast; creole in sierra leone) Use of african soldiers: cheap good fighters; had no loyalty to societies where they fought. Samori toure and tippu tip were made possible to a significant degree because of the goods they had control over. Machine gun was built for colonial warfare you need very few soldiers. A problem for africans was that they were divided.
