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AP World History: Traditions & Encounters Chapter 25 Flashcards

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12320367650African DiasporaThe separation of Africans from their homeland through centuries of forced removal to serve as slaves in the Americas and elsewhere.0
12320367651Country: AngolaCapital: Luanda1
12320378841Antonian MovementWas a syncretic Christian movement formed in the kingdom of Kongo.2
12320380776AsanteAfrican kingdom on the Gold Coast that expanded rapidly after 1680. A major participant in the Atlantic economy, trading gold, slaves, and ivory. It resisted British imperial ambitions for a quarter century before being absorbed into Britain.3
12320380777Atlantic Slave TradeLasted from 16th century until the 19th century. Trade of African peoples from Western Africa to the Americas. One part of a three-part economical system known as the Middle Passage of the Triangular Trade.4
12320383350CandombieAfrican religious ideas and practices in Brazil, particularly among the Yoruba people.5
12320386489Creole languageA language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.6
12320389017Dona Beatrizformer priestess of African Religion, taught that Kongo was the Holy Land of Christianity7
12320392374FulaniPastoral 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.8
12320398623GhanaFirst known kingdom in sub-Saharan West Africa between the sixth and thirteenth centuries C.E. Also the modern West African country once known as the Gold Coast. gold and salt trade.9
12320406254Great ZimbabweCity, now in ruins (in the modern African country of Zimbabwe), whose many stone structures were built between about 1250 and 1450, when it was a trading center and the capital of a large state.10
12320409237Gullah/Geechee-Spoken language and shared culture of Africans -Mix of many languages and new words11
12320412404HaitiName that revolutionaries gave to the former French colony of Saint Domingue; the term means "mountainous" or "rugged" in the Taino language.12
12320416078Islamic Slave Trade10 million slaves have been shipped out of Africa by this slave trade between the 8th and 18th centuries. Europeans used these existing networks and expanded the slave trade13
12320430360Kongo EmpireEmerged in 14th century along the mouth of the Congo River. Had a & centralized government allowed empire to grow. Traded with Portuguese.14
12320433357Mali EmpireFormed in 1240 when Sundiata took control of Ghana Empire. It controlled trade across Sahara, the South and the Niger River.15
12320436634ManiocThe most important American crop introduced into Africa in the sixteenth century.16
12320439424Middle PassageA voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies17
12320443560Saint DomingueHaiti half of island of Hispaniola; where the Toussaint L'Overture revolt occurred18
12320446646SanteriaCuban religion that combines Catholic and West African beliefs19
12320448855Songhay EmpireA state located in western Africa from the early 15th to the late 16th centuries following the decline of the Mali Empire.20
12320451736SwahiliBantu language with Arabic loanwords spoken in coastal regions of East Africa.21
12320456017TimbuktuCity on the Niger River in the modern country of Mali. It was founded by the Tuareg as a seasonal camp sometime after 1000. As part of the Mali empire, Timbuktu became a major major terminus of the trans-Saharan trade and a center of Islamic learning.22
12320459717Triangular TradeA three way system of trade during 1600-1800s Africa sent slaves to America, America sent Raw Materials to Europe, and Europe sent Guns and Rum to Africa23
12320462429VoudouA religious practice that the African Americans Practiced in Saint Domingue, it was banned because the whites saw it as a threat.24

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