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Exam review
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African Civilizations Final Exam Information (Updated April 18, 2007) The final will follow the format of the mid-term. There will be eight terms from which you will choose 5 to identify. There will be at least two essays from which you will choose one. The IDs will be worth 40 points and the essay will be worth 60 points. The IDs will be drawn from the material we have covered since the mid-term while the essays will be on broad topics that span the entire semester. Potential IDs: Definition of a Slave Pawnship Client Atlantic Slave trade El Mina Atlantic Plantation System Canary Islands Sao Tome Portuguese in Africa Abolition of the Slave Trade Abolition of Slavery Crisis of Adaptation
Legitimate trade Atlantic system Berlin Conference Brussels Treaty Abolition and the origins of Colonialism High Imperialism Technology and High Imperialism Ashanti Empire and Ashanti War Gold Coast Colony Congo Free State German East Africa Ethiopia
Primary Resistance Secondary Resistance Direct Rule Indirect Rule Kwame Nkrumah Pan Africanism World War One effects on African Nationalism World War One in Tanganyika Carrier Corps Paul Von Lettow-Vorbeck Rise of Associations Mau Mau/Land and Freedom Party Jomo Kenyatta KANU Cash crops and Colonialism
Settler Farming in Kenya Broader themes: Why were Africans the main source of labor for the Atlantic plantation system? How did abolition of the slave trade lead to colonialism? How and when does the relationship between Africa and Europe change from one of relative equality to an unequal relationship dominated by Europe? How did Africans resist the colonial state? What brought about the down-fall of the colonial state? How did colonialism, as it was practiced by the various European powers, differ? How has Africa's relationship to the non-African world changed in the last 1000 years? Why is Africa the poorest of the world's continents?
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