Colonies in North America France controls Quebec to

Colonies in North America • • France controls Quebec to Louisiana England controls New England to Florida Russia colonizes the coast of Alaska Spain controls Mexico and Florida and the islands of the Caribbean

Africa

Europeans build forts along the west coast of Africa

• They traded muskets, tools, and cloth for gold, ivory and slaves

• Slave demand in the Americas increases when the encomienda system is abolished

• The slave trade developed into a huge and profitable business

• European slave traders bought their slaves from African rulers in exchange for textile, metalwork, rum, tobacco, weapons, and gunpowder

• African rulers thus expanded further into Africa to fill the European demand

Slave Trade • Increased African wars • Destroyed African kingdoms • Built new African kingdoms • Depopulation of Africa

Middle Passage Journey of slave ships from western Africa to America where they were sold

Columbian Exchange • New products were introduced to Europeans, Natives, Africans.

Cape Town • Settlement was built by the Dutch at the southern tip of Africa

Boers • Dutch people that settled in southern Africa

• Boers pushed further and further into Africa searching for ivory and new lands to herd

• The Boers often battled African tribes including the Zulu

• In 1815 the British take control of Cape Town

The Great Trek • Fleeing the British the Boers expand further north into Africa • New wars between the Boers and African tribes begin

Guns vs. Spears • The Boers have military superiority over the Zulus and other Africans • EFFECTS: