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50295058El MinaMost important of early Portuguese trading factories in forest zone of Africa0
50295059LancadosSettlers and adventurers of Portuguese origin in Senegambia, the Cape Verde Islands and other areas of the West Africa. Many were Jews escaping persecution from the Portuguese Inquisition, and many had wives from the local African groups.1
50295060Fulania family of languages of the Fulani people of West Africa and used as a lingua franca in the sub-Saharan regions from Senegal to Chad2
50295061CandombleAfrican religious ideas and practices in Brazil, particularly among the Yoruba people.3
50295062Lesothoa landlocked constitutional monarchy in southern Africa4
50295063Luandaport city on Atlantic coast, port city on Atlantic coast5
50295064Royal African companyA trading company chartered by the English government in 1672 to conduct its merchants' trade on the Atlantic coast of Africa. (p. 507)6
50295065Indies pieceTerm utilized within the complex exchange system established by the Spanish for African trade; referred to the value of an adult male slave.7
50295066Triangular tradeA three way system of trade during 1600-1800s Aferica sent slaves to America, America sent Raw Materials to Europe, and Europe sent Guns and Rum to Africa8
50295067AsanteAfrican kingdom on the Gold Coast that expanded rapidly after 1680. Asante participated in the Atlantic economy, trading gold, slaves, and ivory. It resisted British imperial ambitions for a quarter century before being absorbed into Britain. 1902 (736)9
50295068Benina country on western coast of Africa10
50295069Dahomeya country on western coast of Africa11
50295070Uthman Dan fodiofounder of the Sokoto Caliphate in 1809, a religious teacher, writer and Islamic reformer12
50295071Great trekA migration of Dutch colonists out of British-controlled territory in South Africa during the 1830s.13
50295072MfecaneWars of 19th century in southern Africa; created by Zulu expansion under Shaka; revolutionized political organization of southern Africa.14
50295073Middle Passagethe route in between the western ports of Africa to the Caribbean and southern U.S. that carried the slave trade15
50295074William WilberforceBritish statesman and reformer; leader of abolitionist movement in English parliament that led to end of English slave trade in 1807.16
50295075AfrikanersSouth Africans descended from Dutch and French settlers of the seventeenth century. Their Great Trek founded new settler colonies in the nineteenth century. Though a minority among South Africans, they held political power after 1910. (735)17
50295076Zulu WarsBritain crushes Zulu, Fought in 1879 between the British Empire and the Zulu Empire in Africa. The war ended the Zulu nation's independence.18
50295077Diasporathe dispersion of the Jews outside Israel19
50295078Creole slavesAmerican born descendants of salt-water slaves20

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