Africa and the Africanism the age of the Atlantic Slave Trade
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| 283977577 | What were the Portuguese trading forts called? | Factories | 0 | |
| 283977578 | What was traded in "Factories"? | Slaves, ivory, pepper, animal skins, gold | 1 | |
| 283977579 | What did they try to do besides trade w/ Africans? | Tried dominating the existing trading system of African ports. | 2 | |
| 283977580 | Who took over the Portuguese later? | Dutch, English, and French | 3 | |
| 283977581 | What good did they originally seek? and What replaced it? | Gold, pepper, and other products; replaced by slaves | 4 | |
| 283977582 | What crop required constant labor and was hardest on them? | Sugar | 5 | |
| 283977583 | What is the estimated number of slaves forced to migrate? | 12 million | 6 | |
| 283977584 | Morality rate during Middle Passage? | 10-20%; about 10-11 million actually arrived | 7 | |
| 283977585 | Slavery difference between N.America and S.America & Caribbean? | S.America & Caribbean: Slave mortality high, fertility low, more men less women N.America: Slave pop. grew, less dangerous jobs | 8 | |
| 283977586 | Trans-Saharan and Trans-Atlantic difference | Trans-Saharan: used women as servants Trans-Atlantic: used men as servants | 9 | |
| 283977587 | What is the changing demography of Africa? | Population was less, and as trade developed, new crops were introduced which provided new food resources | 10 | |
| 283977588 | What is the Triangular Trade? | Slaves were carried to Americas (Africa to America) --> Sugar and tobacco were carried to Europe (America to Europe) --> European production sent to Africa (Europe to Africa) | 11 | |
| 283977589 | How did Europeans rationalize their part in slave trade? | They would say slavery had already existed in Europe | 12 | |
| 283977590 | What is chattel slavery? | When people were considered property. Hint: Chatell sounds like cattle, which is property. | 13 | |
| 283977591 | Why did slavery pay a bigger role in Africa then any other civilization? | The control of slavery was one or the only way for the wealth & status of individuals to increase | 14 | |
| 283977592 | How does slavery relate to polygyny? | The fact that the excess of female slaves led to polygyny (having more than one wife at a time) | 15 | |
| 283977593 | Who did Africans enslave? | Their neighbors | 16 | |
| 283977594 | What is the "gun-slave cycle"? | It was a cycle where African tribes would sell their own people in return for guns, etc. | 17 | |
| 283977595 | How did the "gun-slave cycle" influence African politics? | The guns gave the states more power, this let them expand to other places and gain slaves. They would later trade their slaves for gun powder. | 18 | |
| 283977596 | What did the Asante kingdom trade? | Gold and slaves | 19 | |
| 283977597 | What did the Benin kingdom trade? | Pepper, textiles, and ivory instead of slaves | 20 | |
| 283977598 | Who was known as the slaving state? | Dahomey | 21 | |
| 283977599 | What were some of the creative features of their societies that were on part w/ Europe? | The growing divine authority | 22 | |
| 283977600 | What kind of power did the kings have? | Limited power | 23 | |
| 283977601 | Where are most of the slaves going from the east coast of Africa? | Households of Arabia and Middle East | 24 | |
| 283977602 | What 2 things combined caused extreme violence in the region? | New political units and centers of trade? | 25 | |
| 284556146 | When did the Dutch establish the first colony in South Africa? Why? | 1652; To serve as a provisioning place for ships sailing to Asia | 26 | |
| 284556147 | What drove the Dutch farther inward? | Their want for finding new lands | 27 | |
| 284556148 | Who eventually gained this as their colony? | Great Britain | 28 | |
| 284556149 | When did the Great Britain gain this as their colony? | 1795 | 29 | |
| 284556150 | What was the Great Trek? | The movement of Boer settlers in Cape Colony to escape influence of British colonial gov. in 1834 | 30 | |
| 284556151 | Who rose as a great leader? | Shaka | 31 | |
| 284556152 | When did Shaka rise as a great leader? | 1818 | 32 | |
| 284556153 | What other great leader could we compare him to? | ... | 33 | |
| 284556154 | When and how was the Zulu's dominance ended? | 1870's; Great Britain crushed their power | 34 | |
| 284556155 | Who starts questioning modern slavery in the 17th Century? | English historian; Charles Boxer | 35 | |
| 284556156 | What event or change caused them to change them to think it may be outdated? | The Enlightenment | 36 | |
| 284556157 | What are the estimates of how many Africans were forced to migrate? | 10-12 million | 37 | |
| 284556158 | How many died marching to the slave pens on the coast? | One third of the captives | 38 | |
| 284556159 | How many died during their trip in the Middle Passage? | Average: 18% of them In some cases, 700 out of 716 slaves died | 39 | |
| 284556160 | What were some of the distinctions made within the slave class? | There were African-born (salt water slaves), American born descendants (Creole slaves), mulattos (part white), and free colored people | 40 | |
| 284556161 | What differed between South and North American slave societies? | Slaves, in South America, formed most of the population | 41 | |
| 284556162 | When did Britain abolish slavery? | 1807 | 42 | |
| 284556163 | When was slavery abolished in Brazil? | 1888 | 43 |
