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| 129904554 | Antonianism | African syncretic religion, founded by Dona Beatriz, that taught that Jesus Christ was a black African man and that heaven was for Africans. | |
| 129904555 | Christianity | Religion emerging from Middle East in the first century C.E. holding Jesus to be the son of God who sacrificed himself on behalf of mankind. | |
| 129904556 | Diaspora | People who have settled far from their original homeland but who still share some measure of ethnic identity. | |
| 129904557 | East India Company | British joint-stock company that grew to be a state within a state in India; it possessed its own armed forces. | |
| 129904558 | Fulani | Sub-Saharan African people who, beginning in the seventeenth century, began a series of wars designed to impose their own strict interpretation of Islam. | |
| 129904559 | Great Zimbabwe | Large sub-Saharan African kingdom in the fifteenth century. | |
| 129904560 | Islam | Monotheistic religion of the prophet Muhammad (570-632); influenced by Judaism and Christianity, Muhammad was considered the final prophet because the earlier religions had not seen the entire picture; the Qu'ran is the holy book of Islam. | |
| 129904561 | Kilwa | City-state on the east coast of Africa that exported gold across the Indian Ocean. | |
| 129904562 | Kingdom of Kongo | Kingdom dominating small states along the Congo River that maintained effective, centralized government and a royal currency until the seventeenth century. | |
| 129904563 | Kingdom of Ndongo | West African kingdom that between 1623 and 1663 experiences some success in resisting Portugal. By the end of the seventeenth century, the kingdom succumbs and becomes the Portuguese colony of Angola. | |
| 129904564 | Kongo | Central African state that began trading with the Portuguese around 1500; although their kings, such as King Affonso I (r. 1506-1543), converted to Christianity, they nevertheless suffered from the slave trade. | |
| 129904565 | Maroons | Runaway African slaves. | |
| 129904566 | Muslim | A follower of Islam. | |
| 129904567 | Ndongo | Angolan kingdom that reached its peak during the reign of Queen Nzinga (r. 1623-1663). | |
| 129904568 | Songhay | Empire that replaced Mali in the late fifteenth century. | |
| 129904569 | Swahili | African city-state society that dominated the coast from Mogadishu to Kilwa and was active in trade. | |
| 129904570 | Timbuktu | City in Mali, Africa, that was notable for its Islamic university and 180 religious schools. | |
| 129904571 | Triangular trade | Trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas that featured finished products from Europe, slaves from Africa, and American products bound for Europe. |
