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AP World History Chapter 25 Flashcards

Terms for chapter 25 from "World Civilizations," fifth edition.

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325307722factoriesforts and trading posts with resident merchants.0
325307723El Mina(1842) the most important of the factories, in the heart of the gold-producing region of the forest zone.1
325307724Nvinga 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
325307725Luandathe Portuguese settlement on the coast of Africa. Established in 1570s.3
3253077261441?Slaves became a trade item because of Portuguese trading them from Africa. Portuguese government became a serfdom.4
325307727Royal African CompanyA company chartered in order to give England a source to funnel slaves out of. Dangerous business.5
325307728Indies PieceSpanish term, meaning a male African slave who is healthy.6
325307729Triangle Tradetrade in which slaves, sugar, and tobacco were carried from Europe to Africa, from Africa to America, from America to Europe, and repeated.7
325307730AsanteA 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
325307731Osei Tutu(d. 1717) the vigorous leader of supreme civil and religious issues, the asantehene.9
325307732Asantehenethe supreme civil and religious leader of Asante peoples.10
325307733Dahomeythe 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
325307734Luo-spoke Nilotic languages -Migration caused establishment of states along many different east central African lakes -Bantu kingdoms lasted from 16th to 17th centuries.12
325307735Fulania pastoral people, spread across a broad area of western Sudan.13
3253077361815British took over Dutch Cape Colony14
325307737Great TrekDutch boers (farmers) began to move to the north, to avoid government interference.15
325307738Mfecanewars of crushing and wandering that marked the beginning of Zulu and Nguni chiefdoms.16
325307739Swazithe new African state that modeled after the Zulu, among those who survived.17
325307740Lesotho-People who successfully copied the Zulu example -Mixture of Sotho and Nguni speakers18
325307741Middle PassageSlave voyage to the Americas19
325307742Saltwater slavesSlaves who were almost always black, and came directly from Africa.20
325307743Creole slavesSome of these were mullattos, resulting from the use of African slave women and miscegenation.21
32530774417th Century, Lima, PeruAfricans outnumered Europeans.22
325307745ObeahName given to African religious practices.23
325307746• Candomble (Brazilian) and Vodun (Haitian)Versions of African religions, some of which continue today.24
325307747Palmaresan 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
325307748SurinameFormer Dutch plantation colony where a number of slaves ran away in the 18th century, and resisted those sent to hunt them down.26
325307749William Wilberforcea religious humanitarian who led the abolition movement, which gained momentum against slave trafficers in the West Indies.27
3253077501807British slave trade was abolished28
3253077511888the slave trade was completely abolished, ending with Brazil.29

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