Timeline to the Partition of Africa

  • Period: Jan 1, 700 to Jan 1, 1100

    Ghana

  • Period: Jan 1, 800 to Jan 1, 1550

    mali

  • Period: Jan 1, 1300 to

    songhay

  • Jan 1, 1400

    Exploration of africa

    Prince Henry of portugal sent ships to explore the west coast of africa. These voyages initiated the age of discovery a time where eurapeans sailed around the world. He got his name henry the navigator because he spondered so many voyages.
  • Jan 1, 1487

    Age of exploration

    when people starting exploring the world by boat the startted to ring stuff back like spices
  • Period: Jan 1, 1500 to

    Atlantic slave trade

  • Asante

    The Asante emerged ehich is now present day Ghana. In the late 1600s Osei Tutu won control of the trading city Kumasi. From that he conquered the Asanti kingdom. He believe that the people in this kingdom were linked by spiritual bonds . This stredegy paid off in the end when they defeated there neighboring enemy Denkyera.
  • Period: to

    Industrial revolution

    in this time period factorys were getting made for the first time and they used the power of the water wheel to make the job faster
  • Arkwright’s water frame

    This was created by sir richard Arkwright a textile industrialist and an inventor. His first creation was Arkwrights water frame which operated by water power. This machine produced a cotton yarn suitable for warp. With this him and several partners opened factories at Nottingham and Cromford.
  • Origin of Species

    this book was created by charles Darwin that influened modern western society and thought.
  • Social Darwinism / Survival of the fittest

    The theory of the survival of the fittest is that the new generations will be stronger because the weak will die off and the strong will reproduce.
  • Period: to

    Partition of Africa

    This partition occured when the europeans were fighting about how to drw the boundary line in Africa.