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| 6344926057 | Niger River | The Niger River is the principal river of western Africa, extending about 4,180 km. It is an invaluable water source in the Sahara Desert. It's two fertile deltas provide critical water sources and wetlands to an otherwise very dry region |  | 0 |
| 6344926058 | creole | American-born descendants of saltwater slaves. Mostly of mixed race. |  | 1 |
| 6344927803 | Gullah | Gullah is the Creole language of the Gullah, having an English base with elements from various West African languages. It has about 125,000 speakers. | 2 | |
| 6344927804 | Geechee | Another term to describe the Gullah people or the Gullah dialect. | 3 | |
| 6344929236 | Santeria | Santeria (Way of the Saints) is an Afro-Caribbean religion based on Yoruba beliefs and traditions, with some Roman Catholic elements added. Santeria grew out of the slave trade in Cuba. | 4 | |
| 6344929237 | Vodun | African religious ideas and practices among descendants of African slaves in Haiti. |  | 5 |
| 6344930679 | Candomble | A religion found primarily in Brazil that is strongly influenced by religions from Africa, which came to Brazil by means of the slave trade from the 16th to 19th century. |  | 6 |
| 6344930680 | gumbo | Gumbo is a stew that originated in southern Louisiana during the 18th century. Gumbo is often categorized by the type of thickener used: the African vegetable okra, the Choctaw spice filé powder. |  | 7 |
| 6344932192 | polygyny | A polygamous mating system involving one male and many females. | 8 | |
| 6344932193 | Saint Domingue | A French colony on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola from 1659 to 1804. |  | 9 |
| 6344934057 | Dahomey | Kingdom developed among Fon or Aja peoples in 17th century. Became the center in Abomey, 70 miles from coast. Dahomey was under King Agaja's expanded to control coastline and port of Whydah by 1727. They accepted Western firearms and goods in return for African slaves. |  | 10 |
| 6344934058 | Sunni Ali | Sunni Ali was the first king of the Songhai Empire, located in west Africa and the 15th ruler of the Sonni dynasty. Under Sunni Ali's rule and cavalry many cities were captured and then strengthen, such as Timbuktu (captured in 1468) and Djenné (captured in 1475). |  | 11 |
| 6344934059 | Oyo | Oyo was a yoruban city-state. It had a king who used nobles in provinces. The secret society of Ogboni checked the king's power. |  | 12 |
| 6344935616 | barracoons | A type of barracks used historically for the temporary confinement of slaves or criminals. |  | 13 |
| 6344937962 | Ile de Goree | Gorée is famous as a destination for people interested in the Atlantic slave trade but relatively few slaves were processed or transported from there. |  | 14 |
| 6344937963 | Vasco da Gama | Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese explorer. He was the first European to reach India by sea, linking Europe and Asia for the first time by ocean route, as well as linking the Atlantic and the Indian oceans entirely and definitively. |  | 15 |
| 6344941021 | triangular trade | A three way system of trade during 1600-1800s Africans were sent to the Americas to be slaves. America sent Raw Materials to Europe, and Europe sent Guns and Rum to Africa. |  | 16 |
| 6344941022 | Atlantic trade system | Though this trade system slaves, cash crops, and manufactured goods were traded between West Africa, Caribbean or American colonies and the European colonial powers, with the northern colonies of British North America, especially New England, sometimes taking over the role of Europe. The use of African slaves was important to growing colonial cash crops, which were sent to Europe. European goods, in turn, were used to buy African slaves, which were then brought on the sea lane west from Africa to the Americas. |  | 17 |
| 6344943803 | Middle Passage | The route in between the western ports of Africa to the Caribbean and southern U.S. that carried the slave trade. |  | 18 |
| 6344944796 | African Diaspora | The African diaspora are communities throughout the world that are descended from the historical movement of population from Africa. |  | 19 |
| 6344944797 | abolition | The action or an act of abolishing slavery in the Americas among other places. Enlightenment ideals led to the freedom and revolutions that sometimes ended in revolts from the enslaved. |  | 20 |
