The Scramble For Africa – The British Empire – KS3 History
The relationship between Europe and Africa dates back as far the 1200s, when Arab merchants traded gold with powerful African kingdoms and then went on to trade in Europe. By the 1480s the Portuguese had started to settle along the west coast of Africa in the Kingdom of Kongo, trading guns and cloth in exchange for enslaved prisoners of war. By the 1600s,… Read More »