Going over vocabulary, as usual
8557917663 | Factories | Forts and trading posts with resident merchants; | 0 | |
8557917664 | El Mina | Most important factory in Cape of Good Hope; allowed Portuguese to exercise some control with few personnel | 1 | |
8557917665 | Nzinga Mvemba | r. 1507-1543; helped convert kingdom of Kongo to Christianity; tried to Europeanize the kingdom, but was only partially successful | 2 | |
8557917666 | Luanda | Coast of Africa; place of a more permanent Portuguese colony of Angola | 3 | |
8557917667 | Royal African Company | Chartered for English purpose of acquiring slaves; made for colonies of Barbados, Jamaica, Virginia | 4 | |
8557917668 | Indies Piece | Healthy slave man; women and children priced at fraction of Indies Piece | 5 | |
8557917669 | Triangular Trade | Involved Europe, Africa, Americas; slaves to Americas; sugar, tobacco, raw goods to Europe; manufactured goods to Africa | 6 | |
8557917670 | Asante | found in Gold Coast; rose to prominence during period of slave trade; members of Akan people; matrilineal | 7 | |
8557917671 | Osei Tutu | d. 1717; made title of asantehene to represent supreme civil and religious ruler that a king/queen could have; united asante. | 8 | |
8557917672 | Asantehene | Title of supreme ruler (king/queen); represents supreme civil and religious ruler that a king/queen could have | 9 | |
8557917673 | Dahomey | became major slave trader in 1727 | 10 | |
8557917675 | Fulani | heavily impacted by Muslim reforms; pastoral people who were spread across western Sudan; "purifying sufi muslims; anti-hausa revolts | 11 | |
8557917676 | Mfecane | zulu wars of expansion | 12 | |
8557917677 | Great Trek | Boers movement after 1834; after Britains abolish slavery in Cape Colony | 13 | |
8557917680 | Middle Passage | Slave voyage to the Americas; very traumatic for the slaves shipped in this route; did not strip Africans of the culture | 14 | |
8557917681 | Saltwater Slaves | African-born slaves; almost invariably black by European standards | 15 | |
8557917682 | Creole Slaves | Mixed-blood slaves; most were mulattos from sexual exploitation of slave women/other forms of miscegenation | 16 | |
8557917683 | Obeah | mix of christianity and african culture in carribbean | 17 | |
8557917684 | Candomble | mix of christianity and african culture in Brazil | 18 | |
8557917685 | Vodun | mix of christianity and african culture in Haiti | 19 | |
8557917686 | Palmares | Famous slave kingdom in Brazil; managed to resist Portuguese/Dutch attempts to suppress it | 20 | |
8557917687 | Suriname | Former Dutch plantation colony that eventually became an African slave runaway kingdom; finally made peace with white people | 21 | |
8557917688 | William Wilberforce | Abolitionist of England; made movement strong and eventually get the slave trade to be abolished in 1807 | ![]() | 22 |