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287166191Factoriesforts and trading posts with resident merchants. 1487;African Coast. Portuguese built them for an easier way to trade goods/slaves.0
287166192El Minathe most important factory/fort/ 1482;African Coast. Helped Portuguese get some gold to trade.1
287166193Nzinga Mvembaruler of the Kongo Kingdom. 1507-1543;Africa He brought the whole kingdom to Christianity.2
287166194LuandaPortuguese factory. that became basis for Portuguese colony of Angola. 1570s;Africa3
287166195Royal American CompanyCharterted to build a monopoly over the slave trade among British merchants. 1660s;Africa. Had a source of slaves & imported them to places4
287166196Indies PieceTerm used within the complex exchange system built by the Spanish for African trade. 1450-1750;Africa. Referred to a healthy male.5
287166197Triangular tradeCommerce linking Africa, the New World colonies and Europe. 1450-1750;Africa. Slaves were carried to the Americas along with sugar, tabacco, and other goods were carried to Europe6
287166198AsanteEmpire that rose to prominence in the period of the slave trade. 1450-1759:Africa. They were in a region of gold and kola nut production and near trading centers7
287166199Osei TutuMember of Oyoko clan of Akan peoples in Gold Coast Africa. 1701-1717;Africa. He built a unified Asante empire & utilized western firearms8
287166200asantehenetitle taken by ruler of Asante empire supreme civil & religious leader. 1701:Africa. Then golden stool symbolized you had this position9
287166201DahomeyA kingdom that developed among the Fon or Aja peoples. 1450-1750:Africa. Had a different response to the european presence than the Benin Kingdom.10
287166202LuoNilotic people who migrated from upper Nite valley. 16th or 17th century:Africa. Construction of related dynasties among the states in the area of the large lakes.11
287166203FulaniPastoral people of western Sudan who were spread across a broad area. 1770s:Africa. A Muslim reform movement had intense impact on these people.12
287166204Great TrekMovement of Boer settlements in Cape colony to escape influence of British colonial government. 1834:Africa. Moved away to be free of goverment interference.13
287166205mfecanewars of crushing or wandering. 1840s;Africa. The rise of the Zulu and other Nguni cheifdoms was the beginning14
287166206SwaziA new African state that adapted aspects of the Zulu model emerged among the survivors. 1840s;Africa. Very similar to the Zulu Cheifdom.15
287166207LesothoA new African state that successfully resisited Zulu example. 1840s;Africa. It combined Sotho & Nguni speakers and defended itself against Nguni armies.16
287166208Middle PassageSlave voyage to the Americas. 1737; Africa and Americas. They were taken from their homes, branded, confined & shackled.17
287166209Saltwater slavesSlaves transported from Africa; almost black. 1450-1750;Africa. They were born in Africa18
287166210Creole SlavesAmerican born descendants of saltwater slaves. 1450-1750; Africa. Some were mulattos19
287166211ObeahName given to the African religious practices. 1450-1750;Africa. Men & women knowledgeable in the English island were held in high regard within the community.20
287166212candombleAfrican religious ideas and practices in Brazil, among Yoruba people. 1450-1750; Africa. People tried to suppress them but the ideas are still there today.21
287166213VodunAfrican religious ideas & practice among descendants of African slaves in Haiti. 1450-1750;Africa. Fully developed versions of African religions flourished and continue today, despite attempts to suppress them.22
287166214PalmaresAn enormous run-away slave kingdom with many villages. 17th century; Africa. Had about 800-10,000 runaway slaves23
287166215SurinameAnother run-away slave kingdom found in the forests. 18th century;Africa. It was a former Dutch plantation colony.24
287166216William WilberforceBritish statesman and reformer; leader of abolitionist movement in English parliament that led to English slaves trade. 1807; Britain. British stopped slave trading & tried to get everyone else to stop.25

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