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The Europeans began to sail to south around the continent of Africa in the continent of Africa. This was in a attempt to reach the wealth of silks and spices found in India and China.
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European traders began to sell Africans guns and European trader got goods in exchange for slaves. They were transported a across the Atlantic Ocean.
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The European began to build trading post in Africa in the early 1500’s.
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They started to colonize and take over another country for the resources it can provide.
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Brittany started to to take over and control central Southern Africa while France seized most of west Africa.
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Controlled the government
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They were fighting for freedoms from Great Britain.
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Europe had taken over nearly all of Africa. The only country to remain uncolonized what’s Ethiopia, though Italy did invade the country in the 30’.
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Afrikaners made apartheid law.
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In WWII Africans began to seriously rebel against colonization. In Ghana in the mid 40’s Kwamw Nkrumah introduces an idea.
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Sudan gained its independence from Great Britain In 1956
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Ghana gained indipentance.
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Nigeria became independent.
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Belgium Congo became independent.
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Independence comes to the country of Rwanda in 1962 after which violence broke out and they Hutu took control
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In 1964, Mandela was arrested and sentenced to life in prison for his actions. Mandela would not be silenced and continued to protest from prison. F.W. de Klerk was elected president of South Africa in 1989.
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Joseph mobutu seized in power.
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After independence, the people in the south rebelled against northern rule leading to two civil wars from 1956 to 1972 and from 1983 to 2005.
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Igbo people tried to declare themselves independent.
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In 1993, Mandela and de Klerk were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their work in ending apartheid.
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In 1993, Mandela and de Klerk were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their work in ending apartheid.
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The country of Rwanda continued to experience violence.
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1994, Hutu began to engage in genocide against the Tutsi people. Between 800,000 to 1 million Tutsi people were murdered. Eventually the Tutsi came back into power and restored peace.
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Millions of people died.
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In 2010 people in Tunisia began to agitate fro a more democratic government. This movement became know as the Arab spring
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Sudan recognized south Sudan’s independence
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Qaddafi was captured and killed in 2011, and a new government was elected.
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At the beginning of the Arab Spring Egypt was under the leadership of President Hosni Mubarak. Mubarak was a dictator who had controlled Egypt for 30 years. He was forced to resign in 2011.
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Morsi’s term was short because in 2013, his government was overthrown by the military. Morsi was imprisoned and his political party was banned. The new government gave more power to the police and military in the new constitution.
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Mubarak was replaced by an Islamic fundamentalist government led by Mohammed Morsi in 2012.
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Morsi’s term was short because in 2013, his government was overthrown by the military. Morsi was imprisoned and his political party was banned. The new government gave more power to the police and military in the new constitution.