Africa: Economy

By: Lisa Kim

Mr. Brightman

Atlantic Slave Trade

Atlantic trade was a major trade during 1500s through 1700s.

Atlantic trade was a trade where Africans exchange their slaves with Euro-peans for goods.

This led to slavery in Americas and Europe.

It lasted from the 16th to 19th century.

At first, Portuguese and Spanish merchants came to Africa to trade slaves with goods.

Then, the merchants started to kidnap Africans without paying and the amount of slaves captured increased.

Geography/Natural Re-sources/Agriculture

Africa is located south of Western Europe.

It has the largest hot desert and tropical forest.

Africa has much of the world’s diamonds, found in the south and east of Gulf of Guinea and Sinai Peninsula.

It is also abundant of oil, gas and phosphate.

60% of the populations were farmers

Grew cash crops, such as cacao and peanuts

Tribes

They lived as tribes

They had many wars with each others and enslaved the prisoners

They believed in polytheism

Each tribe had distinct characters, lan-guages, religions, culture, clothing, etc.

PovertyAfrica has the poorest economy in the world

Most Africans are struggling in poverty

Missionaries around the world come to Africa to help out these people

But still, they have low standard of living

Many people die from hunger, diseases caused by not being able to eat, etc.

Also, Africa has a very dry temperatures, so there are many famines and drought

Bibliography

“Africa: Economy.” The Columbia Electronic Encyclope-dia. Infoplease. 2007. 25 Aug. 2008 <http://www.info-please.com/ ce6/ world/ A0856494.html>.

“Atlantic Slave Trade.” Encarta. 2008. MSN. 25 Aug. 2008 <http://encarta.msn.com/ encyclopedia_761595721/ atlantic_slave_trade.html>.

“Economy of Africa.” Wikipedia. 23 Aug. 2008. 25 Aug. 2008 <http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Economy_of_Africa>.