Mr. Brown AP World ECHHS
334441722 | factories | trading stations with resident merchants established by the Portuguese and other Europeans | 0 | |
334441723 | El Mina | important Portuguese factory on the coast of modern Ghana | 1 | |
334441724 | lançados | Afro-Portuguese traders who joined the economies of the African interior with coastal centers | 2 | |
334441725 | Nzinga Mvemba | ruler 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 trade | 3 | |
334441726 | Luanda | Portuguese settlement founded in the 1520's; became the core for the colony of Angola | 4 | |
334441727 | Royal African Company | chartered in Britain in the 1660's to establish a monopoly over the African trade; supplied slaves to British New World colonies | 5 | |
334441728 | Indies piece | a unit in the complex exchange of the West African trade; based on the value of an adult male slave | 6 | |
334441729 | triangular trade | complex 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 Africa | 7 | |
334441730 | Asante | Akan state on the Gold Coast (now Ghana) among the Akan people and centered at Kumasi | 8 | |
334441731 | Osei Tutu | important ruler who began centralization and expansion of Asante | 9 | |
334441732 | asantehene | title, created by Osei Tutu, of the civil and religious ruler of Asante | 10 | |
334441733 | Benin | African kingdom in the Bight on Benin; at the height of its power when Europeans arrived; active slave trading state; famous for its bronze casting techniques | 11 | |
334441734 | Dahomey | African 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 firearms | 12 | |
334441735 | Luo | Nilotic people who migrated from the Upper Nile regions to establish dynasties in the lakes region of central Africa | 13 | |
334441736 | Usuman Dan Fodio | Mulsim Fulani leader who launched a great religious movement among the Hausa | 14 | |
334441737 | Great Trek | movement inland during the 1830's of Dutch-ancestry settlers in South Africa seeking to escape their British colonial government | 15 | |
334441738 | Shaka | ruler among the Nguni peoples of southeast Africa during the early 19th century; caused migrations and alterations in African political organization | 16 | |
334441739 | Swazi and Lesotho | African states formed by peoples reacting to the stresses of the Mfecane | 17 | |
334441740 | Middle Passage | slave voyage from Africa to the Americas; a deadly and traumatic experience | 18 | |
334441741 | obeah | African religious practices in the British American islands | 19 | |
334441742 | candomble | African religious practices in Brazil among the Yoruba | 20 | |
334441743 | vodun | African religious practices among descendants in Haiti | 21 | |
334441744 | Palmares | Angolan-led large runaway slave state in 17th-century Brazil | 22 | |
334441745 | Surinam Maroons | descendants of 18th century runaway slaves who found permanent refuge in the rainforests of Surinam and French Guiana | 23 | |
334441746 | William Wilberforce | British reformer who led the abolitionist movement that ended the British slave trade in 1807 | 24 |