The Earth and its people Third edition:Ch. 18 key terms Flashcards
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| 121706790 | Royal African Company | A trading company chartered by the English government in 1672 to conduct its merchants' trade on the Atlantic coast of Africa. | 0 | |
| 121706791 | Atlantic system | The network of trading links after 1500 that moved goods, wealth, people, and cultures around the Atlantic Ocean basin. | 1 | |
| 121706792 | chartered company | Groups of private investors who paid an annual fee to France and England in exchange for a monopoly over trade to the West Indies colonies. | 2 | |
| 121706793 | Dutch West India Company | Trading company chartered by the Dutch government to conduct its merchants' trade in the Americas and Africa. | 3 | |
| 121706795 | plantocracy | In the West Indian colonies, the rich men who owned most of the slaves and most of the land, especially in the eighteenth century. | 4 | |
| 121706797 | driver | A privileged male slave whose job was to ensure that a slave gang did its work on a plantation | 5 | |
| 121706799 | seasoning | An often difficult period of adjustment to new climates, disease environments, and work routines, such as that experienced by slaves newly arrived in the Americas. | 6 | |
| 121706801 | manumission | A grant of legal freedom to an individual slave. | 7 | |
| 121706803 | maroon | A slave who ran away from his or her master. Often a member of a community of runaway slaves in the West Indies and South America. | 8 | |
| 121706804 | capitalism | The economic system of large financial institutions that first developed in early modern Europe. | 9 | |
| 121706805 | mercantilism | European government policies designed to promote overseas trade between a country and its colonies and accumulate precious metals by requiring colonies to trade only with their motherland country. | 10 | |
| 121706806 | Atlantic circuit | The network of trade routes connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas that underlay the Atlantic system. | 11 | |
| 121706807 | Middle Passage | The part of the Atlantic Circuit involving the transportation of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas. | 12 | |
| 121706808 | Songhai | A people, language, kingdom, and empire in western Sudan in West Africa. | 13 | |
| 121706809 | Housa | An agricultural and trading people of central Sudan in West Africa. | 14 | |
| 121706810 | Bornu | A powerful West African kingdom at the southern edge of the Sahara in the Central Sudan, which was important in trans-Saharan trade and in the spread of Islam. Also known as Kanem-Bornu, it endured from the ninth century to the end of the nineteenth. | 15 |