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Ch. 20 AP World History Flashcards

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3845169841After 1450, the growing and often bitter contacts between Europeans and Africans, primarily through______the slave trade, linked the destiny of Africa to the broader external trends of the emerging world economy0
3845198264This forced migration was part of the international exchange of ____foods, diseases, animals, and ideas that marked the era and had a profound influence on the indigenous people in various regions, as we saw in the case of the Americas1
3845206656Before 1800 at least twice as many ______Africans crossed the Atlantic than did Europeans, and so they were fundamental to creation of the Atlantic system2
3845209892Portuguese ships pushed down west Africa coast and finally reached the ______Cape of Good Hope in 14873
3845211848factoriesEuropean trading fortresses and compounds with resident merchants utilized throughout Portuguese trading empire to assure secure landing places and commerce4
3845220782El Minamost important of early Portuguese trading factories in forest zone5
3845228488The first slaves brought directly to Portugal from Africa arrived in ___14416
3845379699About ___ million Africans were shipped across the Atlantic12 million7
3845382457What area had the must slaves in the Americas?Brazil8
3845384002The high volume of the slave trade was necessary to the slave owners because, in most of the slave regimes in the ______Caribbean and Latin America, slave mortality was high and fertility was low9
3845385718By 1860, almost ___ million slaves worked in the Emercas6 million10
3845387540Difference in types of slaves:The older trans-Sahara, Red Sea, and east African slave trades in the hands of Muslim traders continued throughout the period and added another 3 million ppl tot the total of Africans exported as slaves in this period. The Atlantic slave trade drew slaves from across the continent and its concentration shifted over time.11
3845392881The majority of the trans-Saharan slave trade consisted of ____women to be used as concubines and domestic servants in north Africa and the Middle East12
3845395487the Atlantic slave trade concentrated onmen13
3845397635triangular tradecommerce linking Africa, the New World colonies, and Europe; slaves carried to America for sugar and tobacco transported to Europe14
3845404485European merchants and royal officials were able to tap ________existing routes, markets, and institutions, but the new and constant demand also intensified enslavement in Africa and perhaps changed the nature of slavery itself in some African societies15
3845406951With access to ____ werstern and central African kingdoms began to redirect trade toward the coast and to expand their influenceEuropean goods, especially firearms, iron, horses, cloth, tobacco, and other goods16
3845409487Asante EmpireEstablished in Gold Coast among Akan people settled around Kumasi; dominated by Oyoko clan; many clans linked under Osei Tutu after 165017
3845410821asanteheneTitle taken by ruler of Asante Empire; supreme civil and religious leader; authority symbolized by golden stool18
3845413228DahomeyKingdom developed among Fon or Aja peoples in 17th century; center at Abomey 70 miles from coast; under King Agaja expanded to control coastline and port by Whydah by 1727; accepted Western firearms and goods in return for African19
3845416532saltwater slavesslaves transported from Africa; almost invariably black20

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