Tribal+Nigeria+-+1800s+(9-4)

**Steve and Des: Describe the economy; religion and customs; family life; law; education; government structure; military**
SO,DM Nigerian Homes SO,DM Nigeria Landscape

- Their economy is based on agriculture - Two thirds of people worked on agriculture - They grew cacao, palm oil, palm kernels, and peanuts
 * Economy**


 * Religion

Government** - Britain stopped slave trade in 1807 - In late 1800's British colonists came in search of Ivory and other valuable minerals - No government in most Nigerian villages - There were three different ethnic groups; one of the governments for the ethnic group Hausa-Fulanis was autocracy - The other two ethnic groups were called Yoruba and Ibo, both of their forms of government were largely a series autonomous tribal villages - There was the Fulani conquest of much of northern Nigeria in the early 1800's

- In the early 18th century the British and French destroyed the Dutch hold of West African Trade. - By the end of the French Revolution Napoleonic Wars, Britain had become the dominant commercial power in West Africa.
 * Military**