Positive effects of Imperialism

• The Europeans colonized Africa
• Education was introduced to some African children
• Buildings were built
• New technology was introduced to the African people
  
• Governments were established
• Railways were built
• Shipping ports were

Negative effects of Imperialism

• Tribes that did not get along were placed together
• Power was snatched away from people
• People were enslaved
• Land was taken from people
• People were stripped from their rights
• Tribes were ruined
• Most of the buildings they brought was for their personal gain
• They used Africa's resources
• They brought with them disease

Current Event 3

Who?
Nigerian Army members
What?
Soldiers have been imprisoned for life because they illegialy sold guns to oil militants
Where?
Nigeria
Why?
They sold them7,000 guns illegaly because they eeded money and the oil militants bribed the soldiers or the Nigerian Army into selling them.

This is news worthy story because it shows how the economy suffrs and the people will do whatever they can to get the money they need to survive.Today everything depends on how much money ou get and with that money people use it to keep themselves living, and this article shows that people are desperate in Nigeria and have to go agains the law to be able to fend for themselves.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7737213.stm

Summary to Blog

West Africa has a a very poor economy and government with many religious and ethnic conflict between different tribes. In Nigeria they have many oil fields and many rich resources along with a diverse culture and people of different ethnicity. Its got a huge population mainly because of its high birthrate and that also makes it one of the poorest countries in Africa. Many of the other countries in West Africa have poverty and a big problem in economics along with unstable goverments and famines. One of the countries that has a stable democratic government is Cape Verde. Countries in West Africa struggle with poor economy and political instability ever since they have been independent. In Africa there is a lot famine and starvation due tocrops being eaten by locusts. West Africa is a very poor part of the African region.

FeedBack: Cartoon! :]

The main visual elements in this picture is that there is a large footprint standing on a lack 3-D version of Africa. I think that the cartoonist is trying to imply that Africa is being walked over on and taken advantage off. The issue may be about the colonization that occurred because the Europeans just walked on land and took what they needed and that is what I think that the cartoon was showing. I think that cartoonist doesn't like what is going on in Africa, hence why he decided to make the Europeans look bad. Maybe the message could've been implied a bot simpler because it takes a while to understand what is going on in this picture.

SQ3R History Of West Africa

Africa has a lot of history, the history of being "colonized", and the history between the tribes and people of Africa. Its a large continent with a wide range of cultures, religions, trade and history. The people of West Africa belong to hundreds of different ethnic groups, examples would be, Hausa and Fulani, Yoruba, Igbo and more. Colonization separated most of the ethnic groups and sometimes ethnic groups that didn't get along, get grouped together. Along with ethnic groups there are many forms of religion in West Africa, the two main religions that are practiced are Islam, brought by the North Africans, and Christianity, brought by the Europeans. Another form of practiced religion is animism, the belief that natural objects have spirits and the people who follow this type of religion honor the memories of their ancestors. In West Africa many of the families live in small huts made from straw, mud, cow dung, and mud brick. It is considered to be the woman's job to decorate the house and to take care of the house otherwise but this however is only in the rural parts of West Africa. In the urban areas of West Africa people live in regular homes, apartments etc. So in summary, West Africa has a wide and iverse culture along with a lot of rich history.

Scramble for Africa

We decided to make alliances with Great Britain saying that we wouldnt conquer them and give them some of our good land as long as they take sides with us and the both of us would conquer Africa. This was a good strategy because Great Britain was VERY powerful and we needed a strong country to help us when we needed it a lot. We needed petroluem, zinc, iron, and we also wanted diamonds for our country did not have as much as Africa had. We do not, however, know who won but I think it was either Germany or Great Britain. We also do not know who lost because someone decided to take their anger out on the board, but my best guess would be that Spain or Portugal lost.

Current Events 2

Mohammed Bello Abubakar is an 84 year old man was in police custody for 59 days and has now recieved a bail. You may be thinking "what did the man do to be in such trouble?", well i will tell you. This man married 86 women and accepted to give all a divorce but 4 women which he wished to keep to himself. In Nigeria it is common to marry more than one women and such marriages are still practiced, but the reason that these marriages caused such a riot is because not only did he marry 86 women, but he said that God made him do it. He claimed that he had flowen to heaven and that God had commanded that Mr Mohammed Abubakar can have as many wives as he wised to have.

Physical Geography of West Africa

West Africa is a very vast land that goes from the Sahara, to the Atlantic Ocean and The Gulf of Guinea. If you take a look at a physical map of Africa you would see that West Africa was mostly mostly made up of plains, deserts, cliffs and one river, The Niger River. The plains are usually used for to raise livestock or to plant crops for the people living in that region. People usually build their homes on the sides of cliffs and they have been building their homes their for many years now. The Niger River is used for fishing and for farming. West Africa has a wide variety of resources such as, agricultural products, oil, and minerals. The climate of West Africa is excellent for agricultural uses. Oil is found at the coast of Niger and is THE most valuable resource there is. So to summarize what I have been saying previously West Africa has plains, valuable resources and has good agricultural usage.

Journal Reflection

I think that the book To Be A Slave can be trusted because they give different sources. Its is in fact it is a very trustable book. It is not biased and gives you ALL the main ideas from different slaves throughout history. It has the slaves that were treated like dirt and were beat up, and the book also has the slaves that weren't treated so badly. He also has on pages 13-14 a note on where is information was found etc, so in order to write he HAD to research and may have had found some very reliable sources. He does indeed have ancestors that were slaves so maybe he does have good information about slaves from his ancestors. So I think that he was trustable.

Niger Children are dying off- Current Event Post

Niger is a very poor country, the people there are illetrate and do not have the knowledge or nourishment and childcare, etc. About one fourth of the children under five years of age die. Lack of food in Africa has occured in the past and is still occuring. Children in Niger die because their families cannot afford to pay for food and food is a necesity of life. Even though Niger is an arable land many people still die. Rescue teams have been sent but still there are people starving. The starvation and malnourishment has gotten much worse than it was and we should really help those people because they need our help.

5 themes of geography.

The five themes of geography in this picture are movement, region, human environmental interaction, location and lastly place. The movement in this picture is the movement of culture, it is a castle from the 15 or 16 century and it is open for people to look at and learn about the idea of what happened at those times. The region in this picture is probably a windy area as the flag is being blown about and the sky is foggy. The human environmental interaction is that the castle is built on a volcano and a hill and obviously some damage had to be done for the castle to be on such land. The location of the castle is Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. Place would be the climate because the U.K is known to be a very cold area to live in.

FeedBack- "Violence only leads to more violence"

"Violence only leads to more violence" is one of the quotes that is both true and makes a lot of sense. It is very well related to the play because by killing Caesar, which was both a stupid and violent thing, the conspirators ended up dead themselves, which was a good and violent thing again. It relates to real life aswell because if somebody wanted, lets use oil as an example, if they wanted oil and their country did not have oil then that person would fight another country for oil and cause the two countries to have a war. That situation could have been resolved with an agreement of asking for oil nicley and getting oil which would have saved more lives and been better for the two countries. If the conspirators did not kill Caesar and just talked to him and let him know how they had felt then maybe Caesar would have changed for the good of Rome and more people would have live, i.e the conspirators. That is what I think of the quote.