AP World History Chapter 20 Flashcards

6078212557	Factories	trading stations with resident merchants established by the Portuguese and other Europeans	0
6078212558	El Mina	important Portuguese factory on the coast of modern Ghana	1
6078212559	Nzinga Mvemba	ruler of the Kongo kingdom (1507-1543); converted to Christianity; his efforts to integrate Portuguese and African ways foundered because of the slave trade	2
6078212560	Luanda	Portuguese settlement founded in the 1520s; became the core for the colony of Angola	3
6078212561	Royal African Company	chartered in Britain in the 1660s to establish a monopoly over the African trade; supplied slaves to British New World colonies	4
6078212562	Indies piece	a unit in the complex exchange system of the west African trade; based on the value of an adult male slave	5
6078212563	triangular trade	complex commercial pattern linking Africa, the Americas, and Europe; slaves from Africa went to the New World; American agricultural products went to Europe; European goods went to Africa	6
6078212564	Asante	Akan state among the Akan people of Ghana and centered at Kumasi	7
6078212565	Osei Tutu	important ruler who began centralization and expansion of Asante	8
6078212566	Asantehene	title, created by Osei Tutu, of the civil and religious ruler Asante	9
6078212567	Benin	African kingdom in the Bight of Benin; at the height of its power when European arrived; famous for its bronze casting techniques	10
6078212568	Dahomey	African state among the Fon peoples; developed in the 17th century centered at Abomey; became a major slave trading through utilization of Western firearms	11
6078212569	Luo	Nilotic people who migrated from the Upper NIle regions to establish dynasties in the lake region of central Africa	12
6078212570	Usuman Dan Fodio	Muslim Fulani leader who launched a great religious movement among the Hausa	13
6078212571	Great Trek	movement inland during the 1830s of Dutch-ancestry settlers in South Africa seeking to escape their British colonial government	14
6078212572	Shaka	ruler among the Nguni peoples of southeast Africa during the early 19th century; developed military tactics that created the Zulu state	15
6078212573	Mfecane	wars among Africans in southern Africa during the early 19th century; caused migrations and alterations in African political organizations	16
6078212574	Swazi and Lesotho	African states formed by people reacting to the stresses of the Mfecane	17
6078212575	Middle Passage	slave voyage form Africa to the Americas; a deadly and traumatic experience	18
6078212576	Saltwater slaves	name given to slaves born in Africa; distinguished from American-born descendants, the creoles	19
6078212577	obeah	African religious practices in the British American islands	20
6078212578	candomble	African religious practices in Brazil among the Yoruba	21
6078212579	vodun	African religious practices among descendants in Haiti	22
6078212580	Palmares	Angolan-led, large runaway slave state in 17th-century Brazil	23
6078212581	Surinam Maroons	descendants of 18th-century runaway slaves who found permanent refuge in the rainforests of Surinam and French Guiana	24