Ch. 21 AP World History
312546507 | factories | forts and trading posts with resident merchants. | 0 | |
312546508 | indies piece | a complicated system in which a healthy man was called; the spanish developed it. | 1 | |
312624073 | lancados | collection points for Portuguese trade in the interior of Africa; provided essential link between economies of African interior and factories on the coast. (Portuguese and African traders) | 2 | |
312624074 | Royal African Company | was chartered for the purpose of the English having their own source of slaves for their growing colonies in Barbados, Jamaica, and Virginia. | 3 | |
312624075 | Triangular trade | existed in which slaves were carried to eh Americas; sugar, tobacco, and other goods were tehn carried to Europe; and European products were sent to the coast of Africa to begin the triangle again. | 4 | |
312624076 | Asantahene | Title take by ruler of Asante Empire; supreme civil and religious leader; authority symbolized by gold stool | 5 | |
312624077 | Great Trek | movement 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. | 6 | |
312624078 | Mfecane | Wars of 19th century in southern Africa; created by Sulu expansion under shaka; revolutionized political organization of southern Africa | 7 | |
312624079 | Diaspora | the movement, migration, or scattering of a people away from an established or ancestral homeland | 8 | |
312624080 | El Mina | important factory in the heart of the gold-producing region of the forest zone. It allowed the Portugues to exercise zoom control with few personel. | 9 | |
312624081 | Nzinga Mvemba | Ruler in Kongo, who with the help of Portuguese advisors and missionaries, brought a whole kingdom to Christianity. The enslavement of his subjects led Nzinga to try to end the slave trade and limited Portuguese activities. | 10 | |
312624082 | Luanda | Portuguese factory established in 1520's south of Kongo; became basis for Portuguese colony of Angola | 11 | |
312624083 | Osei Tutu | Member of Oyoko clan of Akan peoples in Gold Coast region of Africa; responsible for creating unified Asante Empire utilized Western firearms. | 12 | |
312624084 | Dahomey | developed among the Fon or Aha peoples, had a different response to the European presence. It began to emerge as a power in the 17th century form its center at Abomey. Accepted Western firearms and goods in return for African slaves. | 13 | |
312624085 | Usuman Dan Fodio | A studious and charismatic Muslim Fulani scholar, who began, in 1804, to preach the reforms ideology in the Hausa kingdoms. His movement became a revolution when, in 1804, seeing himself as God's instrument, he preached a jihad against the Hausa kings, who, he felt, were not following the teachings of Muhammad. A great upheaval followed in which the Flan took control of most of the Hausa state of northern Nigeria in the western Sudan. | 14 | |
312624086 | Shaka | ruler and reformer of Nguni peoples after 1818; reformed loose forces into regiments organized by lineage and age; created Sulu chiefdom that began to absorb or destroy its neighbors in southern Africa. | 15 | |
312624087 | Middle Passage | Slave voyage from Africa to the Americas (16th to 18th centuries); generally a traumatic experience for black slaves, although it failed to strip Africans of their culture. | 16 | |
312624088 | Obeah | African religious ideas and practices in the English and French Caribbean islands. | 17 | |
312624089 | Candomble | African religious ideas and practices in Brazil, particularly among the Yoruba people. | 18 | |
312624090 | Vodun | African religious ideas and practices among descendants of African slaves in Haiti. | 19 | |
312624091 | 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 | 20 | |
312624092 | William Wilberforce | British statesman and reformer; leader of abolitionist movement in English parliament; led abolition of English slave trade in 1807. | 21 | |
312626460 | Benin | a league and powerful kingdom of West Africa near the coast, the city-state came into contact with the Portuguese in 1485 but remained relatively free of European influence; remained an important commercial and political entity until the 19th century. | 22 |