WOH 2022 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Askia Mohammad I, Musa I Of Mali, Bantu Expansion
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West african states were muslim trading states- gold, salt. Timbuktu was center of learning, culture in sudanic africa (series of wealth meant invaders) invaded by berbers from the north, mossi from the south. Allied with oman to defeat portuguese c. 1660. East and southern african states: kongo c. 1300. Iron making center, cloth trading center: lakes kingdom c. 1500. Pastoralist and agriculturalist: great zimbabwe 11th to 15th century. 15, 16th centuries were a period of political instability in most of africa. Europeans built trading and way stations along the coast, mostly portuguese. Slave trade was carried out by african rulers and muslims: subservient (ready to conform to authority) and backward 2) not quite human; black and pagan 3) primitive in technology. Attempts to convert gave way to commercial interests. A policy or practice by which a country increases its power by gaining control over other areas of the world. No permanent european settlements (climate [too hot] and disease)
