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47023887FactoriesPortuguese trading fortresses and compounds with resident merchants; utilized throughout Portuguese trading empire to assure secure landing places and commerce.0
47023888El MinaMost important of early Portuguese trading factories in forest zone of Africa1
47023889Nzinga MvembaKing 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
47023890LuandaPortuguese factory established in 1520s south of Kongo; became basis for Portuguese colony of Angola.3
47023891Royal African CompanyA trading company chartered by the English government in 1672 to conduct its merchants' trade on the Atlantic coast of Africa. (p. 507)4
47023892Indies PieceTerm utilized within the complex exchange system established by the Spanish for African trade; referred to the value of an adult male slave.5
47023893Triangular 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 Africa6
47023894AsanteAfrican 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)7
47023895Osei Tutumember of Oyoko clan of Akan peoples in Gold Coast region of Africa; responsible for creating unified Asante Empire; utilized Western firearms.8
47023896AsanteheneTitle taken by ruler of Asante Empire; supreme civil and religious leader; authority symbolized by golden stool.9
47023897DahomeyW. African empire - 17th century to 1894 - profited from slave trade - expanded inward and captured slaves10
47023898FulaniAfrican group who rebelled against the Germans in German East Africa in the 1890's11
47023899MfecaneWars of 19th century in southern Africa; created by Zulu expansion under Shaka; revolutionized political organization of southern Africa.12
47023900Swazia Bantu language closely related to Zulu13
47023901Lesothoa landlocked constitutional monarchy in southern Africa14
47023902Middle Passagethe route in between the western ports of Africa to the Caribbean and southern U.S. that carried the slave trade15
47023903Saltwater SlavesSlaves transported from Africa; almost invariably black.16
47023904Creole SlavesAmerican born descendants of salt-water slaves17
47023905ObeahAfrican religious ideas and practices in the English and French Caribbean islands.18
47023906CandombleAfrican religious ideas and practices in Brazil, particularly among the Yoruba people.19
47023907VodunAfrican religious ideas and practices among descendants of African slaves in Haiti.20
47023908PalmaresKingdom of runaway slaves with a population of 8,000 to 10,000 people; located in Brazil during the 17th century; leadership was Angolan21
47023909Surinamea republic in northeastern South America on the Atlantic22
47023910William WilberforceBritish statesman and reformer; leader of abolitionist movement in English parliament that led to end of English slave trade in 1807.23

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