AAS 118 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cadaver, Musa I Of Mali, Triangular Trade

• School: University at Buffalo
• Department: African-American Studies
• Course: AAS 118
• Professor: Ogunbowale Mopelolade

Document Summary

Four interesting historical fact about the african continent. Important details: founded by the soninke people; thrived on trade and commerce; Spread of islam; ghana exported pepper, slaves and gold. Family systems: lineage: patrilineages and matrilineages; extended family systems, nomadic systems. Women: sexual freedoms, queen mothers, warrior queens, business women, empire builders scholars, political leader. Technology: architecture, iron refining and forging, textile production, rice cultivation. Triangular trade was a system in which slaves, crops, and manufactures were traded between africa, the caribbean, and the american colonies. The voyage of the slave ships from africa to the america"s was called the middle passage because it was the middle leg of the triangular trade. The triangular trade was the movement of trade ships between europe africa and the americas. European age of exploration and the discovery of the america. Demand for plantation labor in the plantations of the new world. Industrial revolution in europe and the need for raw material.