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East Africa :Ivory trade : travelers and explorers - 2 views

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  • first accounts of geographers and travellers, and they give it more promi
  • slave
  • trade
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  • nence than the slave-trade. It may have been the search for ivory which
  • brought the first ships around Cape Guardafui, and then southwards
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      pregannkosi on 26 Apr 23
       
      The reason travellers and geographers came to Africa was in search for Ivory.
  • East African ivory is soft ivory and is ideal for carving. It was in keen
  • demand in the Orient because of its superior quality and because it was
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      pregannkosi on 26 Apr 23
       
      African Ivory was in great demand because of its costs, it was more affordable to traders, therefore high in demand. Africa is a more resourceful continent in the world in terms of minerals and materails.
  • demand
  • East
    • pregannkosi
      pregannkosi on 26 Apr 23
       
      The quest for the search of Ivory invited explorers and travelers into east Africa, if it had not been of the demand of Ivory African would not have been exploited in terms of its resources.
  • East African ivory trade took place. An increased demand for ivory in
  • Europe
  • America and Europe coincided with the opening up of East Africa by
    • pregannkosi
      pregannkosi on 26 Apr 23
       
      Due to the increase demand of Ivory in America and Europe more and more explorers came to Africa so that the can attain Ivory for trading purposes.
  • traders
  • Arab traders and European explorers, and this led to the intensive ex
  • Zanzibar as the ivory market for East Africa, supplying 75 % of the
  • increased
  • the
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Kenyan History: The European Invasion! (1890 - 1930) [African History] - YouTube - 0 views

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    The european invension in Kenya east Africa, the colonization of Kenya.
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Hostage to Cloth_ European Explorers in East Africa 1850-1890.pdf - 1 views

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  • Prior to 1830, foreign merchants little ventured into the interior of East Africa. Arab and Indian traders,
  • brought to the shores of East Africa by favorable monsoon winds from at least the 10
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      pregannkosi on 26 Apr 23
       
      Most of them saw Africa as a source of material and they exploited material and exported good or rather resources from Africa
  • goods. Responding to the growing and changing demands of international trade, they gathered and
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  • ferried gold, ivory, slaves, grain, aromatics, and other stuffs to the coast – and to Portuguese posts in the
  • Zambezi (Alpers 1975, Rockel 2006). Responding to their own economic and social needs and desires,
  • favor
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      pregannkosi on 26 Apr 23
       
      The Portuguese explorers seized and abused African resources, exploited the African and engaging in slave trades. Enslaving Africans to their continent so that they can benefit while using and exploiting them for hard labour.
  • these caravans from the interior came to favor partners and ports capable of supplying the types of cloth
  • and other goods they sought, shifting their routes accordingly.
  • From the late eighteenth century, various factors pushed and pulled foreign merchants to increasingly
  • leave the comforts and safety of East Africa’s coasts and venture inland. In the first instance, Omani
    • pregannkosi
      pregannkosi on 26 Apr 23
       
      The Portuguese exlplorers settled in east Africa before seizing and establishing colonies in other African states howerver the moved from the east african countries to other african countries such as mozambique because they saw more resources in that state and therefore proceded to colonise the state
  • For travelers to even begin trading for food and services, cloth outlays of a different sort altogether were
  • territories
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      pregannkosi on 26 Apr 23
       
      So since the local leaders required gifts before they allowed entry to their territories, explorers provided those gifts because they knew that they would benefit more resources from African countries.
  • European interest in the area shifted from free trade to territorial colonialism and the Scramble for
  • Africa began in earnest. Already by 1885 Germany had landed troops in today’s Tanzania, while
    • pregannkosi
      pregannkosi on 26 Apr 23
       
      The European explorers took advantage that Africans were not skilled as they were so they used this opportunity to colonize African countries or rather states.
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Explorers in East Africa - NYPL Digital Collections - 1 views

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    explorers in east Africa
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