How did the arrival of Europeans influence life in coastal West Africa?
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some west africans worked for europeans helping to capture west africans and other africans to be taken through the triangle trade route for slavery.  africans had to stay aware of the europeans, so basicly they lived as paranoid people.
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At first, they thought they were going to Asia. The Spanish soon found that the islands could be used as a staging post in conquering Latin America and its empires. The ycould also grow cash crops there. They ended up working the Amerindian population to near extinction before starting to import slaves. The French, English and Dutch came to the Carribbean to claim lands of their own.
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I will only help if I can be cited in the essay.  \n\nThere was a triangle of trade.  Manufactured goods would be sent to Africa.  From Africa, slaves were sent to the Caribbean or North America.  Then from the Caribbean or North America goods such as Rice, Sugar, Tobacco, Rum, and Cotton were shipped back to England.\nThat is what I learned in history but for a detailed explanation check out the site below:
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Both. The southern section was largely muslim with European-influenced Catholic populations in the northern regions during the early crusades, though the efforts of the Europeans would result in the spread of Catholicism throughout Spain.
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PORTUGAL WAS THE FIRST EUROPEAN COUNTRY TO ARRIVE IN\nNIGIRIA IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY
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The influence of African art goes back to  at least, the first part of the 20the century.  The stylized images appealed to the abstract  painters and they were co-opted by some .\n\nLatin art is derivative and has not been much of an influence since is is essentially European in nature.
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The Crusades made the people of Europe at war with the people living in the Middle East. Therefore they pushed to find other ways to get spices and silks from China and India. This led to Columbus sailing west and the Europeans controlling the Americas.
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portuguese were big traders in asia.  perhaps it comes from them.
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First, the Europeans had known right along about Africa (which was a short hop across the Mediterranean) and about Asia, though their dealings with the Far East (India to China) came rather late, and were a result of contact with Muslims, esp. after the Crusades.\n\nAs for America, the discovers knew NOTHING about America (leaving aside for now the brief settlement from an earlier discovery by people from Iceland --by way of Greenland) when Columbus stumbled into it when trying to get to the Far East more quickly by crossing the Atlantic (rather than trekking by land or sailing around Africa).  This is, of course, why they were "discoverers"!  (Actually, he would have been a discoverer if he had found the route he was looking for rather than a new continent he wasn't looking for.)\n\nIronically, Columbus's critics --who said it was too far and too dangerous-- had a much more accurate estimate of the earth's circumference than he did!   \n\nFurther irony, Columbus never knew that he HAD discovered a new continent.  He died believing he had reached the edge of the "Indies" [hence they are called the West Indies to this day].   It was Amerigo Vespucci who first concluded, while exploring the coast and part of the interior of South America in a 1501-02 voyage, that this was not part of the Far East at all, but a new continent. (The widespread circulation of his letter on this point explains how he became associated with the discovery itself and why mapmakers put a version of HIS name on a map of the "new world" in 1507.)\n\nOne other consideration -- why didn't they sail out to attempt such things earlier?   Because it was only in the 15th century that Europeans (beginning with the Portugese) developed the navigational tools and skills to undertake such voyages.\n\n**Note to mon l -- none of this had ANYTHING to do with "falling off the edge of the earth".  All these folks knew (and the educated had known for many centuries) that the world was round (contra later anti-Catholic propaganda and a blunder in a popular 19th century biography of Columbus that has influenced the popular understanding ever since).  The obstacle the experts --including some fine navigators-- saw was the great DISTANCE to Asia -- and on that point, they were correct!
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i the south west part of africa
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European civilisations arose very quickly and didn't take long to branch out.  A lot of it dates back to the Roman era, one of the longest lived empires in recorded history, but distrust of whites really took hold in the past 400 years with British Imperialism known for its cruelty and breadth.  It didn't help that white Americans held slaves for a couple hundred years and virtually wiped the land clear of natives.\n\nBasically, the "civilised" people of the world forced their brand on "civilisation" on much of the rest of the world.  Having greater military might because they were able to be more developed due to geographical luck, it was usually bloody.  White people were basically given the best head start, and they took advantage of it throughout the years, and in many cases still do today - look at US and British interference in middle eastern affairs over the past 60 years as a common modern example.
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Nigeria    (n -jîr  - )\nA country of western Africa on the Gulf of Guinea. A variety of states were established in the region prior to the arrival of Europeans, including the Bornu, Benin, and Songhai empires. Exploited by Portuguese, British, French, and Dutch traders in the 17th and 18th centuries, Nigeria was eventually claimed by the British, who consolidated the area into one colony in 1914. The country attained its independence in 1960. Abuja is the official capital (since 1991), but many government offices remain in Lagos, the former capital and the largest city. Population: 108,467,000. .\nEthiopia    (  th -  p - ) Formerly Abyssinia ( b  -s n  - ). \nA country of northeast Africa. A kingdom was established around Aksum in the 1st century A.D. and declined in the 7th century. After a long period of disorder, the area was finally reunited in 1889 by Emperor Menelik II, who greatly expanded Ethiopia by conquest. Italy invaded in 1935 and held the country until 1941. Following the military overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie (ruled 1930-1974), a socialist state was established. The country suffered enormous hardship from war with rebels from the province of Eritrea (which declared independence in 1993) and from famine and drought. Guerrilla forces toppled the government in 1991 and subsequently established a transitional government. Addis Ababa is the capital and the largest city. Population: 32,775,000.
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The British colonies sent rice, tobacco, indigo, and furs to Britain. Britain sent cloth and manufactured goods to the West Indies.  The West Indies sent goods to the British colonies.\n\nThe West Indies sent sugar, molasses, and fruit to Britain.  Britain sent iron, cloth, and weapons to Africa.  Africa sent enslaved persons to West Indies. \n\nThe West Indies sent molasses to the British colonies.  The British colonies sent rum, iron, and tools to Africa.  Africa sent enslaved persons, gold, and pepper to the West Indies.
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by 500 AD, it had been spread throughout most of europe to the north, northern africa to the south, iberia to the east, and india to the west.
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i use wikipedia (www.wikipedia.com) or u could google 3 west african kingdoms & find their governments' official websites.
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Actually because of indenturship. The "East Indians" came to help the africans to cut cane in the Caribbean mostly in Trinidad and Guyana and the rest in the other islands they fortunately were allowed to practice their cultures and religions.  Further more during the years they moved around to other islands in the lesser antilles
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that's a good question, I believe it to be black people... it all start out in Africa then they start move northeast to asain, then went both to america and europe.