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| 9128733341 | factories | European trading fortresses and compounds with resident merchants; utilized throughout Portuguese trading empire to assure secure landing places and commerce. | 0 | |
| 9128792359 | El Mina | Most important of early Portuguese trading factories in forest zone of Africa. | 1 | |
| 9128798197 | Nzinga Mvemba | King of Kongo south of Zaire River from 1507 to 1543; converted to Christianity and took title Alfonso I; under Portuguese influence attempted to Christianize all of kingdom. | 2 | |
| 9128806103 | Luanda | Portuguese factory established in 1520s south of Kongo; became basis for Portuguese colony of Angola. | 3 | |
| 9128812351 | Royal African Company | Chartered in 1660s to establish a monopoly over the slave trade among British merchants; supplied African slaves to colonies in Barbados, Jamaica, and Virginia. | 4 | |
| 9128812352 | Indies piece | Term utilized within the complex exchange system established by the Spanish for African trade; referred to the value of an adult male slave. | 5 | |
| 9128818477 | triangular trade | Commerce linking Africa, the New World colonies, and Europe; slaves carried to America for sugar and tobacco transported to Europe. | 6 | |
| 9128829918 | Asante empire | Established in Gold Coast among Akan people settled around Kumasi; dominated by Oyoko clan; many clans linked under Osei Tutu after 1650. | 7 | |
| 9128831647 | asantehene | Title taken by ruler of Asante Empire; supreme civil and religious leader; authority symbolized by golden stool. | 8 | |
| 9128833431 | Osei Tutu | member of Oyoko clan of Akan peoples in Gold Coast region of Africa; responsible for creating unified Asante Empire; utilized Western firearms. | 9 | |
| 9128849750 | Dahomey | Kingdom developed among Fon or Aja peoples in 17th century; center at Abomey 70 miles from coast; under King Agaja expanded to control coastline and port of Whydah by 1727; accepted Western firearms and goods in return for African slaves. | 10 | |
| 9128851360 | Luo | Nilotic people who migrated from Upper Nile valley; established dynasty among existing Bantu population in lake region of central eastern Africa; center at Bunyoro. | 11 | |
| 9128851361 | Fulani | a family of languages of the Fulani people of West Africa and used as a lingua franca in the sub-Saharan regions from Senegal to Chad. | 12 | |
| 9128855391 | Great Trek | Movement of Boer 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. | 13 | |
| 9128858739 | mfecane | Wars of 19th century in southern Africa; created by Zulu expansion under Shaka; revolutionized political organization of southern Africa. | 14 | |
| 9128861101 | Swazi and Lesotho | African states formed by peoples reacting to the stresses of the Mfecane. (Wars among Africans in southern Africa during the early 19th century). | 15 | |
| 9128863431 | Middle Passage | Slave voyage from Africa to the Americas; generally a traumatic experience for black slaves, although it failed to strip Africans of their culture. | 16 | |
| 9128866490 | saltwater slaves | Slaves transported from Africa; almost invariably black. | 17 | |
| 9128866491 | Creole slaves | American-born descendants of saltwater slaves; result of sexual exploitation of slave women or process of miscegenation. | 18 | |
| 9128872379 | obeah | a religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery. | 19 | |
| 9128872380 | candomble | African religious ideas and practices in Brazil, particularly among the Yoruba people. | 20 | |
| 9128874401 | vodun | African religious ideas and practices among descendants of African slaves in Haiti. | 21 | |
| 9128874402 | Palmares | Kingdom of runaway slaves with a population of 8,000 to 10,000 people; located in Brazil during the 17th century; leadership was Angolan. | 22 | |
| 9128876007 | Suriname | formerly a Dutch plantation colony on the coast of South America; location of runaway slave kingdom in 18th century; able to retain independence despite attempts to cruch guerrilla resistance. | 23 | |
| 9128880088 | William Wilburforce | British statesman and reformer; leader of abolitionist movement in English parliament that led to end of English slave trade in 1807. | 24 |
