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334441722factoriestrading stations with resident merchants established by the Portuguese and other Europeans0
334441723El Minaimportant Portuguese factory on the coast of modern Ghana1
334441724lançadosAfro-Portuguese traders who joined the economies of the African interior with coastal centers2
334441725Nzinga Mvembaruler of the Kongo kingdom (1507-1543); converted to Christianity and was renamed Afonso I; his efforts to integrate Portuguese and African ways foundered because of the slave trade3
334441726LuandaPortuguese settlement founded in the 1520's; became the core for the colony of Angola4
334441727Royal African Companychartered in Britain in the 1660's to establish a monopoly over the African trade; supplied slaves to British New World colonies5
334441728Indies piecea unit in the complex exchange of the West African trade; based on the value of an adult male slave6
334441729triangular tradecomplex commercial pattern linking Africa, the Americas, and Europe; slaves from Africa went to the New World; American agricultural products went to Europe; European goods went to Africa7
334441730AsanteAkan state on the Gold Coast (now Ghana) among the Akan people and centered at Kumasi8
334441731Osei Tutuimportant ruler who began centralization and expansion of Asante9
334441732asantehenetitle, created by Osei Tutu, of the civil and religious ruler of Asante10
334441733BeninAfrican kingdom in the Bight on Benin; at the height of its power when Europeans arrived; active slave trading state; famous for its bronze casting techniques11
334441734DahomeyAfrican state among the Fon or Aja peoples; developed in the 17th century centered at Abomey; became a major slave trading state through utilization of Western firearms12
334441735LuoNilotic people who migrated from the Upper Nile regions to establish dynasties in the lakes region of central Africa13
334441736Usuman Dan FodioMulsim Fulani leader who launched a great religious movement among the Hausa14
334441737Great Trekmovement inland during the 1830's of Dutch-ancestry settlers in South Africa seeking to escape their British colonial government15
334441738Shakaruler among the Nguni peoples of southeast Africa during the early 19th century; caused migrations and alterations in African political organization16
334441739Swazi and LesothoAfrican states formed by peoples reacting to the stresses of the Mfecane17
334441740Middle Passageslave voyage from Africa to the Americas; a deadly and traumatic experience18
334441741obeahAfrican religious practices in the British American islands19
334441742candombleAfrican religious practices in Brazil among the Yoruba20
334441743vodunAfrican religious practices among descendants in Haiti21
334441744PalmaresAngolan-led large runaway slave state in 17th-century Brazil22
334441745Surinam Maroonsdescendants of 18th century runaway slaves who found permanent refuge in the rainforests of Surinam and French Guiana23
334441746William WilberforceBritish reformer who led the abolitionist movement that ended the British slave trade in 180724

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