1542• Portugal helps
Ethiopia end the Arab invasion.
c. 1550
In Italy the Beretta family branched into guns
Africans, bought in the Portuguese trading posts of west
Africa, are shipped across the Atlantic as slaves.
1562• Britain begins
slave trade in Africa
1570• Angola becomes a Portuguese colony.
7. 1591• Moroccan forces destroy the Songhai Empire
8. 1625• Holland involved in the slave trade.
1630 - The first true flintlock.
1638
The French build a trading station on the estuary of the
Senegal river in west Africa
1637-1641• Holland seizes Portugal’s Elmina, Sao Tome, and
Luanda trading posts.
10. 1642• France involved in slave trade
11. 1651• Britain invades Gambia
1652
Jan van Riebeeck establishes a Dutch settlement at the Cape
of Good Hope
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