AP World History Vocab Chapter 26 Flashcards
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184586242 | Sunni Ali | created Sunni Dynasty; rule lasted 30 years; many military campaigns/victories; conquered Timbuktu and Djenne, which gave Songhai control of trade; focus on trading empire | 0 | |
184586243 | Kingdom of Congo | Congo (West African Coast, Congo River) | 1 | |
184586244 | Manioc | cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems | 2 | |
184586245 | Olaudah Equiano | sold into slavery at age 11; after gaining freedom, he spoke out against slavery and published his autobiography | 3 | |
184586246 | Maroons | 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. | 4 | |
184586247 | call-and-response | a song style in which a singer or musician leads with a call and a group responds, alternation of short phrases between a leader and a group used espeicially for music in african american tradition | 5 | |
184586248 | songhay | successor state to Mali; dominated middle reaches of Niger valley; formed as independent kingdom under a Berber dynasty; capital at Gao; reached imperial status under Sunni Ali | 6 | |
184586249 | Antonian Movement | flourished 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. | 7 | |
184586250 | Middle Passage | the route in between the western ports of Africa to the Caribbean and southern U.S. that carried the slave trade | 8 | |
184586251 | Plantation Societies | slaves worked on plantations-tobacco, cotton and sugar were cash crops; slaves did not meekly accept being servile-slave revolts | 9 | |
184586252 | Creole Languages | a language that began as a pidgin language but was later adopted as the mother tongue by a people in place of the mother tongue | 10 | |
184586253 | Queen Nzinga of Ndongo | queen of angola/ ndongo. resisted Portuguese occupation. pretended to be a man. led ndongo through its peak, resists Portuguese forces; creates synthetic christianity | 11 |