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AP World History Chapter 20 Africa Flashcards

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8557917663FactoriesForts and trading posts with resident merchants;0
8557917664El MinaMost important factory in Cape of Good Hope; allowed Portuguese to exercise some control with few personnel1
8557917665Nzinga Mvembar. 1507-1543; helped convert kingdom of Kongo to Christianity; tried to Europeanize the kingdom, but was only partially successful2
8557917666LuandaCoast of Africa; place of a more permanent Portuguese colony of Angola3
8557917667Royal African CompanyChartered for English purpose of acquiring slaves; made for colonies of Barbados, Jamaica, Virginia4
8557917668Indies PieceHealthy slave man; women and children priced at fraction of Indies Piece5
8557917669Triangular TradeInvolved Europe, Africa, Americas; slaves to Americas; sugar, tobacco, raw goods to Europe; manufactured goods to Africa6
8557917670Asantefound in Gold Coast; rose to prominence during period of slave trade; members of Akan people; matrilineal7
8557917671Osei Tutud. 1717; made title of asantehene to represent supreme civil and religious ruler that a king/queen could have; united asante.8
8557917672AsanteheneTitle of supreme ruler (king/queen); represents supreme civil and religious ruler that a king/queen could have9
8557917673Dahomeybecame major slave trader in 172710
8557917675Fulaniheavily impacted by Muslim reforms; pastoral people who were spread across western Sudan; "purifying sufi muslims; anti-hausa revolts11
8557917676Mfecanezulu wars of expansion12
8557917677Great TrekBoers movement after 1834; after Britains abolish slavery in Cape Colony13
8557917680Middle PassageSlave voyage to the Americas; very traumatic for the slaves shipped in this route; did not strip Africans of the culture14
8557917681Saltwater SlavesAfrican-born slaves; almost invariably black by European standards15
8557917682Creole SlavesMixed-blood slaves; most were mulattos from sexual exploitation of slave women/other forms of miscegenation16
8557917683Obeahmix of christianity and african culture in carribbean17
8557917684Candomblemix of christianity and african culture in Brazil18
8557917685Vodunmix of christianity and african culture in Haiti19
8557917686PalmaresFamous slave kingdom in Brazil; managed to resist Portuguese/Dutch attempts to suppress it20
8557917687SurinameFormer Dutch plantation colony that eventually became an African slave runaway kingdom; finally made peace with white people21
8557917688William WilberforceAbolitionist of England; made movement strong and eventually get the slave trade to be abolished in 180722

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