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| 5828484802 | songhay | the dominant west african empire that took over after the mali empire, based in Goa, formed by sunni ali, brought important trading cities under his control to dominate west africa, had a strong navy and strong military, islamic | 0 | |
| 5828493039 | bantu | a type of language and ethnicity of people who spread throughout africa in the neolithic era | 1 | |
| 5828505047 | kanem-bornu | the african kingdom that dominated the area around lake chad after the fall of the songhay empire | 2 | |
| 5828507871 | kongo | a principle state in central africa during the early modern period, a centralized state with many historical records, the kingdom embraced modern day Congo and Angola, kings converted to christianity to establish closer trading and diplomatic relations with europeans, became a prominent source for slaves which ultimately lead to its downfall | 3 | |
| 5828517191 | ndongo | a kingdom south of the kingdom of kongo where the portuguese were developing a brisk slave trade, it was founded by the portuguese who called it angola and it thrived off of the wealth their trade brought them, fed the growing slave trade, had a prominent queen, queen nzinga | 4 | |
| 5828531979 | khoikhoi | the native peoples of south africa near cape town, they were hunters and gatherers, they were conquered by the dutch | 5 | |
| 5828535997 | fulani | a specific group of muslims in subsaharan africa who were concerned with the purity of islam there, they were originally a pastoral group but they had begun to settle in cities, they enforced a strict form of islam and disagreed with the west african forms of syncretic islam | 6 | |
| 5828543173 | antonianism | an influential syncretic cult in kongo, started when a noble woman named dona beatriz claimed she had received a vision from st antony and that only africans went to heaven and that africa was the true holy land, she eventually gained followers and thus began the cult, she was seen as a threat to local christian missionaries so they executed her | 7 | |
| 5828552880 | triangular trade | a profitable commerce stimulated by a demand for labor in the western hemisphere, 1 leg of the trade; europeans brought manufactured goods to africa in exchange for slaves, 2nd leg; europeans took african slaves to the americas and sold them for a profit, 3rd leg; the europeans returned to europe with american products | 8 | |
| 5828559903 | asante | the people of an empire in modern day ghana, benefitted from early firearm adoption meaning they probably traded slaves for firearms with the europeans | 9 | |
| 5828658847 | dahomey | an african kingdom that used firearms to capture people from their towns and villages and exchanged them as slaves for more firearms, this trade caused the kingdom to rapidly expand and helped maintain a constant flow of slaves, they were a prime example of how some african states took advantage of the slave trade | 10 | |
| 5828669632 | oyo | an empire whose citizens spoke yoruba, it was based in present day nigeria and benin, one of the most politically important states during the slave trade and european colonization and the slave trade | 11 | |
| 5828678805 | diaspora | the dispersion of african peoples and their descendants, influenced directly from the slave trade | 12 | |
| 5828681650 | saint-domingue | the place where one of the only successful slave revolts took place, happened on the island of hispanola when slaves revolted against the french, they won and established an independent state, they abolished slavery and renamed their land Haiti | 13 | |
| 5828690098 | maroons | communities of run away slaves that would gather in secluded areas such as mountains, forests, or swamps and build their own self governing communities | 14 | |
| 5828695169 | thomas peters | a west african man who crossed the atlantic ocean 4 times, he was a slave in the french colony of louisiana where he most likely worked on a sugar plantation, he attempted to escape 3 times, he was sold to a scottish land owner in north carolina | 15 | |
| 5828709461 | sunni ali | the founder of the songhay empire, reigned 1464-1493, he brought important trade cities like Timbuktu and Jenne under his control to consolidate his empire and to dominate wealth in the central niger valley, he built an elaborate administrative and military system to oversee affairs, he appointed governors to each of is provinces, created an imperial navy to patrol the niger river | 16 | |
| 5828722806 | vasco de gama | a portuguese mariner who made his way up the east african coast on his way to india, he got into disputes with local forces, and on his second voyage he force the kilwa ruler to pay tribute to him , he was a major creator of the decline of the swahili city states | 17 | |
| 5828737272 | afonso I | ruled 1506-1542, he was a ruler of the kingdom of kongo, he became a roman catholic and tried to convert all of this peoples as well, he converted so that he could establish trading and diplomatic relations with europeans especially the portuguese | 18 | |
| 5828750118 | olaudah equiano | 1745-1797, a west african who was sold into slavery at a very young age and worked in many places in the americas, he gained his freedom in 1766, traveled to england, and wrote a book about the african side of the slave trade and the hard ships and injustices that he and his people are being put through, his book became a best seller, and provided evidence for the abolitionist movement | 19 | |
| 5828765280 | queen nzinga | reigned 1623-1663, queen of ndongo for 40 years, she led a spirited resistance against the portuguese forces there, she came from a long line of warrior kings and often dressed like a male warrior, she insisted on being called king, she was a cunning strategist and military leader, she mobilized troops to ward off portuguese advances and allied with the dutch | 20 | |
| 5828780349 | dona beatriz | the woman who started the antonian movement, she was an aristocratic woman who proclaimed that st anthony had possessed her and sent her messages, she gained a reputation for performing miracles and curing diseases, she taught that jesus was a black man and that african was the true holy land and that only africans went to heaven, her movement became a serious threat to the christian missionaries in the kongo who persuaded the king to burn her at the stake | 21 | |
| 5828797322 | king pedro iv | the king who was persuaded by the christian missionaries to burn dona beatriz at the stake, he was a king of kongo | 22 |
