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6279068048Sunni AliHe was the first leader of the Songhai empire.0
6279069158Swahili StatesThey established regional trade centers, where copper, gold, silver, lead, gum copal pottery, beads, and bronze came from Cambodia, China, Arabia, Egypt, Yemen, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Indian subcontinent.1
6279069159AmericasThey made up of the continents of North America and South America, including neighboring islands, notably the islands of the Caribbean Sea. Until the twentieth century, most geography books classified North and South America together as a single continent, labeling them the "New World".2
6279077576Kingdom of KongoBasin of the Congo (Zaire) river, conglomeration of several village alliances, participated actively in trade networks, most centralized rule of the early Bantu kingdoms, royal currency: cowries, ruled 14th-17th century until undermined by Portuguese slave traders3
6279081226Alfonso IHe was the king of Kongo whose rule began in 1506 and who was influenced by the Portuguese4
6279083105Queen NzingaShe fiercely resisted the slave trade and battled with the Portugese in Angola, though in the end she failed because of their superior weaponry.5
6279085170CapetownIt was the Legislative Capital of South Africa6
6279086972FulaniPastoral people of western Sudan; adopted purifying Sufi variant of Islam; under Usuman Dan Fodio in 1804, launched revolt against Hausa kingdoms; established state centered on Sokoto.7
6279091823Antonian MovementFlourished in the 18 century; began when an aristocrat name Dona Beatriz proclaimed that St. Anthony of Padua had possessed her and chosen her to communicate his message.8
6279093538Dona BeatrizShe claimed that she had been possessed by St. Anthony and had been chosen to communicate his messages. Gained reputation for performing miracles and curing diseases, promoted an African form of Christianity. Taught that Jesus has been a black African man and Kongo was the true holy land. Was burned at the stake for suspicion of heresy.9
6279095757ManiocThe most important American crop introduced into Africa in the sixteenth century.10
6279097478MaroonsThe runaway slaves who gathered in mountainous, forested, or swampy areas and formed their own self-governing communities. raided plantations for supplies, had military skills from Africa.11
6279098770Haitian RevolutionA major influece of the Latin American revolutions because of its successfulness; the only successful slave revolt in history; it is led by Toussaint L'Ouverture.12
6279099946Olaudah EquianoAn antislavery activist who wrote a famous account of his enslavement.13
6279105637CreoleA language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated14

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