287166191 | Factories | forts and trading posts with resident merchants. 1487;African Coast. Portuguese built them for an easier way to trade goods/slaves. | 0 | |
287166192 | El Mina | the most important factory/fort/ 1482;African Coast. Helped Portuguese get some gold to trade. | 1 | |
287166193 | Nzinga Mvemba | ruler of the Kongo Kingdom. 1507-1543;Africa He brought the whole kingdom to Christianity. | 2 | |
287166194 | Luanda | Portuguese factory. that became basis for Portuguese colony of Angola. 1570s;Africa | 3 | |
287166195 | Royal American Company | Charterted to build a monopoly over the slave trade among British merchants. 1660s;Africa. Had a source of slaves & imported them to places | 4 | |
287166196 | Indies Piece | Term used within the complex exchange system built by the Spanish for African trade. 1450-1750;Africa. Referred to a healthy male. | 5 | |
287166197 | Triangular trade | Commerce 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 Europe | 6 | |
287166198 | Asante | Empire 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 centers | 7 | |
287166199 | Osei Tutu | Member of Oyoko clan of Akan peoples in Gold Coast Africa. 1701-1717;Africa. He built a unified Asante empire & utilized western firearms | 8 | |
287166200 | asantehene | title taken by ruler of Asante empire supreme civil & religious leader. 1701:Africa. Then golden stool symbolized you had this position | 9 | |
287166201 | Dahomey | A 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 | |
287166202 | Luo | Nilotic 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 | |
287166203 | Fulani | Pastoral people of western Sudan who were spread across a broad area. 1770s:Africa. A Muslim reform movement had intense impact on these people. | 12 | |
287166204 | Great Trek | Movement of Boer settlements in Cape colony to escape influence of British colonial government. 1834:Africa. Moved away to be free of goverment interference. | 13 | |
287166205 | mfecane | wars of crushing or wandering. 1840s;Africa. The rise of the Zulu and other Nguni cheifdoms was the beginning | 14 | |
287166206 | Swazi | A new African state that adapted aspects of the Zulu model emerged among the survivors. 1840s;Africa. Very similar to the Zulu Cheifdom. | 15 | |
287166207 | Lesotho | A new African state that successfully resisited Zulu example. 1840s;Africa. It combined Sotho & Nguni speakers and defended itself against Nguni armies. | 16 | |
287166208 | Middle Passage | Slave voyage to the Americas. 1737; Africa and Americas. They were taken from their homes, branded, confined & shackled. | 17 | |
287166209 | Saltwater slaves | Slaves transported from Africa; almost black. 1450-1750;Africa. They were born in Africa | 18 | |
287166210 | Creole Slaves | American born descendants of saltwater slaves. 1450-1750; Africa. Some were mulattos | 19 | |
287166211 | Obeah | Name 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 | |
287166212 | candomble | African 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 | |
287166213 | Vodun | African 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 | |
287166214 | Palmares | An enormous run-away slave kingdom with many villages. 17th century; Africa. Had about 800-10,000 runaway slaves | 23 | |
287166215 | Suriname | Another run-away slave kingdom found in the forests. 18th century;Africa. It was a former Dutch plantation colony. | 24 | |
287166216 | William Wilberforce | British 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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