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| 307285385 | Factories | European trading fortresses and compounds with resident merchants; utilized throughout Portuguese trading empire to assure secure landing places and commerce. | 0 | |
| 307285386 | El Mina | Most important of early Portuguese trading factories in forest zone of Africa | 1 | |
| 307285387 | Lancados | Settlers and adventurers of Portuguese origin in Senegambia, the Cape Verde Islands and other areas of the West Africa. Many were Jews escaping persecution from the Portuguese Inquisition, and many had wives from the local African groups. | 2 | |
| 307285388 | Nzinga Mvemba | King of Kongo south of Zaire River from 1507 to 1543; converted to Christianity and took title Alfonso I; under Portuguese influence attempted to Christianize all of kingdom. | 3 | |
| 307285389 | Luanda | Portuguese factory established in 1520s south of Kongo; became basis for Portuguese colony of Angola. | 4 | |
| 307285390 | Royal African Company | Chartered in 1660s to establish a monopoly over the slave trade among British merchants; supplied African slaves to colonies in Barbados, Jamaica, and Virginia. | 5 | |
| 307285391 | Indies piece | Term utilized within the complex exchange system established by the Spanish for African trade; referred to the value of an adult male slave. | 6 | |
| 307285392 | Triangular Trade | Commerce linking Africa, the New World colonies, and Europe; slaves carried to America for sugar and tobacco transported to Europe. | 7 | |
| 307285393 | Asante Empire | Established in Gold Coast among Akan people settled around Kumasi; dominated by Oyoko clan; many clans linked under Osei Tutu after 1650. | 8 | |
| 307285394 | Osei Tutu | member of Oyoko clan of Akan peoples in Gold Coast region of Africa; responsible for creating unified Asante Empire; utilized Western firearms. | 9 | |
| 307285395 | Asantehene | Title taken by ruler of Asante Empire; supreme civil and religious leader; authority symbolized by golden stool. | 10 | |
| 307285396 | Benin | a country on western coast of Africa | 11 | |
| 307285397 | Dahomey | Kingdom developed among Fon or Aja peoples in 17th century; center at Abomey 70 miles from coast; under King Agaja expanded to control coastline and port of Whydah by 1727; accepted Western firearms and goods in return for African slaves. | 12 | |
| 307285398 | Luo | Nilotic people who migrated from Upper Nile valley; established dynasty among existing Bantu population in lake region of central eastern Africa; center at Bunyoro. | 13 | |
| 307285399 | Uthman Dan Fodio | founder of the Sokoto Caliphate in 1809, a religious teacher, writer and Islamic reformer | 14 | |
| 307285400 | Great Trek | Movement of Boer settlers in Cape Colony of southern Africa to escape influence of British colonial government in 1834; led to settlement of regions north of Orange River and Natal. | 15 | |
| 307285401 | Shaka | A Zulu chief in Southern Africa who used soldiers and good military organization to create a large centralized state. | 16 | |
| 307285402 | Mfecane | Wars of 19th century in southern Africa; created by Zulu expansion under Shaka; revolutionized political organization of southern Africa. | 17 | |
| 307285403 | Swazi and Lesotho | African states formed by peoples reacting to the stresses of the Mfecane. (Wars among Africans in southern Africa during the early 19th century) | 18 | |
| 307285404 | Middle Passage | Slave voyage from Africa to the Americas; generally a traumatic experience for black slaves, although it failed to strip Africans of their culture | 19 | |
| 307285405 | Obeah | a religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery | 20 | |
| 307285406 | Candomble | African religious ideas and practices in Brazil, particularly among the Yoruba people. | 21 | |
| 307285407 | Vodun | African religious ideas and practices among descendants of African slaves in Haiti. | 22 | |
| 307285408 | Palmares | Kingdom of runaway slaves with a population of 8,000 to 10,000 people; located in Brazil during the 17th century; leadership was Angolan | 23 | |
| 307285409 | Suriname Maroons | formerly a Dutch plantation colony on the coast of South America; location of runaway slave kingdom in 18th century; able to retain independence despite attempts to cruch guerrilla resistance. | 24 | |
| 307285410 | William Wilberforce | British statesman and reformer; leader of abolitionist movement in English parliament that led to end of English slave trade in 1807. | 25 | |
| 307285411 | Polygyny | having more than one wife at a time | 26 | |
| 307285412 | Oba | title for the king of Benin | 27 | |
| 307285413 | Fulani | a family of languages of the Fulani people of West Africa and used as a lingua franca in the sub-Saharan regions from Senegal to Chad | 28 | |
| 307285414 | Afrikaners | South Africans descended from Dutch and French settlers of the seventeenth century. Their Great Trek founded new settler colonies in the nineteenth century. Though a minority among South Africans, they held political power after 1910. (735) | 29 | |
| 307285415 | Voortrekkers | emigrants during the 1830s and 1840s who left the Cape Colony moving into the interior of what is now South Africa; took part in Great Trek | 30 | |
| 307285416 | Zulu wars | War fought in 1879 between the British and the African Zulu tribes. | 31 | |
| 307285417 | Daispora | translated the Hebrew bible into Greek, spreading Jewish ideas. | 32 | |
| 307285418 | Saltwater slaves | Slaves transported from Africa; almost invariably black. | 33 | |
| 307285419 | Creole slaves | American-born descendants of saltwater slaves; result of sexual exploitation of slave women or process of miscegenation. | 34 |
