8659902409 | Niger River | A geographic location near which the city of Gao thrived and the Songhay people resided | 0 | |
8659902410 | Creole | A mother tongue formed from contact of a European language with a local languages | 1 | |
8659902411 | Barracoons | Slave castles | 2 | |
8659902412 | Gullah/Geechee | Creole languages of South Carolina and Georgia in places where slaves composed 75% of the population | 3 | |
8659902413 | Santeria | African-Christian syncretic religion in Cuba | 4 | |
8659902414 | Vodun | African-Christian syncretic religion in Haiti | 5 | |
8659902415 | Candomblé | African-Christian syncretic religion in Brazil | 6 | |
8659902416 | Gumbo | A dish consisting of rich and okra with African roots popular in southern US | 7 | |
8659902417 | Polygyny | Practice of taking more than one wife | 8 | |
8659902418 | Atlantic trading system (aka triangular trade) | Transport of goods and Africans between West Africa, America, and Europe | 9 | |
8659902419 | African Diaspora | Dispersion of Africans out of Africa | 10 | |
8659902420 | Sunni Ali | Ruler of Songhay people and creator of Songhay Empire | 11 | |
8659902421 | Abolition | Annulment of slavery | 12 | |
8659902422 | Dahomey and Oyo | African societies that conducted slave raids and became richer from slave trade with Europeans | 13 | |
8659902423 | Vasco da Gama | Portuguese explorer who invaded the Swahili city states of East Africa in 1498 | 14 | |
8659902424 | Ile de Gorée (Gorée Island) | A site on the coast of Senegal where the House of Slaves stands | 15 | |
8659902425 | Saint Domingue | French colony on Caribbean island | 16 | |
8659902426 | Middle Passage | A stage of the triangular trade in which millions of Africans were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic Slave Trade | 17 | |
8659902427 | Plantations in the West Indies | A major center of the Atlantic economy in terms of sugar plantations, African slaves, and European capital | 18 | |
8659902428 | The Tobacco Era | Tobacco is used by Amerindians for recreation and medicine; found a new market among seventeenth-century Europeans | 19 | |
8659902429 | Dutch West Indian Company | Trading company chartered by the Dutch government to conduct its merchants' trade in the Americas and Africa | 20 | |
8659902430 | The Slave Trade | The expansion of sugar plantation in the West Indies required a sharp increase in the volume of the slave trade from Africa | 21 | |
8659902431 | Indentured Servants | Servants who signed a contract by which they agreed to work for a certain number of years in exchange for transportation to Virginia and, once they arrived, food, clothing, and shelter | 22 | |
8659902432 | Plantocracy | In the West Indian colonies, the rich men who owned most of the slaves and most of the land, especially in the 18th century | 23 | |
8659902433 | Driver | A privileged male slave whose job was to ensue that a slave gang did its work on a plantation | 24 | |
8659902434 | Manumission | The act of an owner freeing his or her slaves | 25 | |
8659902435 | Maroon | A slave who ran away from his or her master | 26 | |
8659902436 | Capitalism | The economic system of large financial institutions (banks, stocks, exchanges, investment companies) that first developed in early modern Europe | 27 | |
8659902437 | Mercantilism | The system that sought to monopolize the profits produced in colonial empires by controlling trade and accumulating capital in the form of gold and silver | 28 | |
8659902438 | Royal African Company (RAC) | An English mercantile company set up by the Stuart family and City of London merchants to trade along the west coast of Africa | 29 | |
8659902439 | Atlantic Circuit | The network of trade routes connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas that underlay the Atlantic system | 30 | |
8659902441 | African Slave Trade | The flow of sugar to Europe depended on the flow of slaves from Africa | 31 | |
8659902442 | African Participation in the Slave Trade | African merchants were very discriminating about merchandise they took in exchange for slaves or goods | 32 | |
8659902443 | West Africa and Islam | North Africa had become part of the Islamic world during the Islamic expansion | 33 | |
8659902444 | The Islamic Slave Trade | Substantial slave trade to the Islamic North (Middle East and India) from Sub-Saharan Africa through Red Sea and Indian Ocean(1600-1800 C.E.) | 34 | |
8659902445 | Atlantic Vs. Muslim Slave Trades | The Atlantic trade carried about 8 million Africans to the Americas (1550-1800 C.E.) The Islamic trade to North Africa and the Middle East transported around 2 million African captives | 35 |
AP World History: Chapter 17 Flashcards
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