Ch 20 Terms (Africa and the Africans in the Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade) Flashcards
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152088800 | factories | Portuguese trading fortresses and compounds with resident merchants; utilized throughout Portuguese trading empire to assure secure landing places and commerce | 0 | |
152088801 | Nzinga Mvemba | King of Kongo south of Zaire River from 1507 to 1543; converted to Christianity and took title of Alfonso I; under Portuguese influence attempted to Christianize all of kingdom | 1 | |
152088802 | Indies piece | Term utilized within the complex exchange system established by the Spanish for African trade; referred to the value of an adult male slave | 2 | |
152088803 | Osei Tutu | Member of Oyoko clan of Akan peoples in Gold Coast region of Africa; responsible for creating unified Asante Empire; utilized Western firearms | 3 | |
152088804 | Luo | Nilotic people who migrated from Upper Nile valley; established dynasty among existing Bantu population in lake region of central eastern Africa; center at Bunyoro | 4 | |
152088805 | Shaka | Ruler and reformer of Nguni peoples after 1818; reformed loose forces into regiments organized by lineage and age; created Zulu chiefdom that began to absorb or destroy its neighbors in southern Africa | 5 | |
152088806 | Lesotho | Southern African state that survived mfecane; not based on Zulu model; less emphasis on military organization, less authoritarian government | 6 | |
152088807 | creole slaves | American-born descendants of "salt water" slaves; result of sexual exploitation of slave women or process of miscegenation | 7 | |
152088808 | vodun | African religious ideas and practices among descendants of African slaves in Haïti | 8 | |
152088809 | 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 | 9 | |
152088810 | El Mina | Most important of early Portuguese trading factories in forest zone of Africa | 10 | |
152088811 | Luanda | Portuguese factory established in 1520s south of Kongo; became basis for Portuguese colony of Angola | 11 | |
152088812 | triangular trade | Commerce linking Africa, the New World colonies, and Europe; slaves carried to America for sugar and tobacco transported to Europe | 12 | |
152088813 | asantehene | Title taken by ruler of Asante Empire; supreme civil and religious leader; authority symbolized by golden stool | 13 | |
152088814 | Fulani | Pastoral 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 | 14 | |
152088815 | mfecane | Wars of 19th century in southern Africa; created by Zulu expansion under Shaka; revolutionized political organization of southern Africa | 15 | |
152088816 | Middle Passage | Slave voyage from Africa to the Americas (16th—18th centuries); generally a traumatic experience for black slaves, although it failed to strip Africans of their culture | 16 | |
152088817 | obeah | African religious ideas and practices in the English and French Caribbean islands | 17 | |
152088818 | Palmares | Kingdom of runaway slaves with a population of 8,000 to 10,000 people; located in Brazil during the 17th century; leadership was Angolan | 18 | |
152088819 | William Wilberforce | British statesman and reformer; leader of abolitionist movement in English parliament; led abolition of English slave trade in 1807 | 19 | |
152088820 | lançados | Collection points for Portuguese trade in the interior of Africa; provided essential links between economies of African interior and factories on the coast | 20 | |
152088821 | Royal African Company | Chartered in 1660s to establish a monopoly over the slave trade among British merchants; supplied African slaves to colonies in Barbados, Jamaica, and Virginia | 21 | |
152088822 | Asante | African kingdom established in Gold Coast among Akan people settled around Kumasi; dominated by Oyoko clan; many clans linked under Osei Tutu after 1650 | 22 | |
152088823 | Dahomey | Kingdom developed among Fon or Aja peoples in 17th century; center at Abomey 70 miles from coast; under King Agaja expanded to control coastline and port of Whydah by 1727; accepted Western firearms and goods in return for African slaves | 23 | |
152088824 | Great Trek | Movement of Boer settlers in Cape Colony of southern Africa to escape influence of British colonial government in 1834; led to settlement of regions north of Orange River and Natal | 24 | |
152088825 | Swazi | New African state formed on model of Zulu chiefdom; survived mfecane | 25 | |
152088826 | salt-water slaves | Slaves transported from Africa; almost invariably black | 26 | |
152088827 | candomble | African religious ideas and practices in Brazil, particularly among the Yoruba people | 27 | |
152088828 | Suriname | Formerly a Dutch plantation colony on the coast of South America; location of runaway slave kingdom in 18th century; able to retain independence despite attempts to crush guerrilla resistance | 28 |