Terms for chapter 25 from "World Civilizations," fifth edition.
325307722 | factories | forts and trading posts with resident merchants. | 0 | |
325307723 | El Mina | (1842) the most important of the factories, in the heart of the gold-producing region of the forest zone. | 1 | |
325307724 | Nvinga Mvemba | (r. 1507-1543) the ruler of Kong who was converted to Christianity, by way of Portuguese missionaries, and converted all of his people. | 2 | |
325307725 | Luanda | the Portuguese settlement on the coast of Africa. Established in 1570s. | 3 | |
325307726 | 1441? | Slaves became a trade item because of Portuguese trading them from Africa. Portuguese government became a serfdom. | 4 | |
325307727 | Royal African Company | A company chartered in order to give England a source to funnel slaves out of. Dangerous business. | 5 | |
325307728 | Indies Piece | Spanish term, meaning a male African slave who is healthy. | 6 | |
325307729 | Triangle Trade | trade in which slaves, sugar, and tobacco were carried from Europe to Africa, from Africa to America, from America to Europe, and repeated. | 7 | |
325307730 | Asante | A state that came into power in the slave trade era, descended from the Akan people of modern Ghana. Dominated as a gold coast state until the 1820s. | 8 | |
325307731 | Osei Tutu | (d. 1717) the vigorous leader of supreme civil and religious issues, the asantehene. | 9 | |
325307732 | Asantehene | the supreme civil and religious leader of Asante peoples. | 10 | |
325307733 | Dahomey | the kingdom that developed among the Fon (or Aja) peoples. Its kings and powerful councils had access to firearms by the 1720s and created autocratic and at times brutal political regime based on slave trade. | 11 | |
325307734 | Luo | -spoke Nilotic languages -Migration caused establishment of states along many different east central African lakes -Bantu kingdoms lasted from 16th to 17th centuries. | 12 | |
325307735 | Fulani | a pastoral people, spread across a broad area of western Sudan. | 13 | |
325307736 | 1815 | British took over Dutch Cape Colony | 14 | |
325307737 | Great Trek | Dutch boers (farmers) began to move to the north, to avoid government interference. | 15 | |
325307738 | Mfecane | wars of crushing and wandering that marked the beginning of Zulu and Nguni chiefdoms. | 16 | |
325307739 | Swazi | the new African state that modeled after the Zulu, among those who survived. | 17 | |
325307740 | Lesotho | -People who successfully copied the Zulu example -Mixture of Sotho and Nguni speakers | 18 | |
325307741 | Middle Passage | Slave voyage to the Americas | 19 | |
325307742 | Saltwater slaves | Slaves who were almost always black, and came directly from Africa. | 20 | |
325307743 | Creole slaves | Some of these were mullattos, resulting from the use of African slave women and miscegenation. | 21 | |
325307744 | 17th Century, Lima, Peru | Africans outnumered Europeans. | 22 | |
325307745 | Obeah | Name given to African religious practices. | 23 | |
325307746 | • Candomble (Brazilian) and Vodun (Haitian) | Versions of African religions, some of which continue today. | 24 | |
325307747 | Palmares | an enormous runaway slave kingdom with many villages and a population of perhaps 8,000 to 10,000 people, which resisted Portugal and Dutch attempts to destroy them. | 25 | |
325307748 | Suriname | Former Dutch plantation colony where a number of slaves ran away in the 18th century, and resisted those sent to hunt them down. | 26 | |
325307749 | William Wilberforce | a religious humanitarian who led the abolition movement, which gained momentum against slave trafficers in the West Indies. | 27 | |
325307750 | 1807 | British slave trade was abolished | 28 | |
325307751 | 1888 | the slave trade was completely abolished, ending with Brazil. | 29 |