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| 118730517 | Royal African Company | A trading company chartered by the English government in 1672 to conduct its merchants' trade on the Atlantic coast of Africa | 0 | |
| 118730518 | Atlantic System | The network of trading links after 1500 that moved goods, wealth, people, and cultures around the Atlantic Ocean basin | 1 | |
| 118730519 | Chartered Company | Groups of private investors who paid an annual fee to France and England in exchange for a monopoly over trade to the West Indies colonies | 2 | |
| 118730520 | Dutch West India Company | Trading company chartered by the Dutch government to conduct its merchants' trade in the Americas and Africa | 3 | |
| 118730521 | Joint-Stock Company | an association of individuals in a business enterprise with transferable shares of stock, much like a corporation except that stockholders are liable for the debts of the business | 4 | |
| 118730522 | Plantocracy | In the West Indian colonies, the rich men who owned most of the slaves and most of the land, especially in the eighteenth century | 5 | |
| 118730523 | Driver | A privileged male slave whose job was to ensure that a slave gang did its work on a plantation | 6 | |
| 118730524 | Seasoning | An often difficult period of adjustment to new climates, disease environments, and work routines, such as that experienced by slaves newly arrived in the Americas | 7 | |
| 118730525 | Head Boiler | ... | 8 | |
| 118730526 | Maroon | A slave who ran away from his or her master. Often a member of a community of runaway slaves in the West Indies and South America | 9 | |
| 118730527 | Yaws | an infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages | 10 | |
| 118730528 | Capitalism | an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations, esp. as contrasted to cooperatively or state-owned means of wealth | 11 | |
| 118730529 | Mercantilism | an economic system (Europe in 18th C) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests | 12 | |
| 118730530 | Atlantic Circuit | from Europe south to Africa, then west to the Americas, then back to Europe. Traded European products to Africa in exchange for slaves, then slaves for plantation goods, and then sold plantation goods in Europe; goal was to make a profit on each leg of the trip (triangle trade route) | 13 | |
| 118730531 | Middle Passage | -a voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies -middle portion of the triangle trade route | 14 | |
| 118730532 | Songhai | A people, language, kingdom, and empire in western Sudan in West Africa. At its height in the sixteenth century, the Muslim Songhai Empire stretched from the Atlantic to the land of the Hausa and was a major player in the trans-Saharan trade | 15 | |
| 118730533 | Hausa | located on niger river, organized into city states, never united, were farmers, traded a lot of cotton, crops, cold, salt. | 16 | |
| 118730534 | Bornu | A powerful West African kingdom at the southern edge of the Sahara in the Central Sudan, which was important in trans-Saharan trade and in the spread of Islam. Also known as Kanem-Bornu, it endured from the ninth century to the end of the nineteenth | 17 |
