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Ch. 21 AP World History

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312546507factoriesforts and trading posts with resident merchants.0
312546508indies piecea complicated system in which a healthy man was called; the spanish developed it.1
312624073lancadoscollection 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
312624074Royal African Companywas chartered for the purpose of the English having their own source of slaves for their growing colonies in Barbados, Jamaica, and Virginia.3
312624075Triangular tradeexisted 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
312624076AsantaheneTitle take by ruler of Asante Empire; supreme civil and religious leader; authority symbolized by gold stool5
312624077Great Trekmovement 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
312624078MfecaneWars of 19th century in southern Africa; created by Sulu expansion under shaka; revolutionized political organization of southern Africa7
312624079Diasporathe movement, migration, or scattering of a people away from an established or ancestral homeland8
312624080El Minaimportant 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
312624081Nzinga MvembaRuler 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
312624082LuandaPortuguese factory established in 1520's south of Kongo; became basis for Portuguese colony of Angola11
312624083Osei TutuMember of Oyoko clan of Akan peoples in Gold Coast region of Africa; responsible for creating unified Asante Empire utilized Western firearms.12
312624084Dahomeydeveloped 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
312624085Usuman Dan FodioA 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
312624086Shakaruler 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
312624087Middle PassageSlave 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
312624088ObeahAfrican religious ideas and practices in the English and French Caribbean islands.17
312624089CandombleAfrican religious ideas and practices in Brazil, particularly among the Yoruba people.18
312624090VodunAfrican religious ideas and practices among descendants of African slaves in Haiti.19
312624091PalmaresKingdom of runaway slaves with a population of 8,000 to 10,000 people, located in Brazil during the 17th century; leadership was Angolan20
312624092William WilberforceBritish statesman and reformer; leader of abolitionist movement in English parliament; led abolition of English slave trade in 1807.21
312626460Benina 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

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