AP World Chapter 20 Vocabulary Flashcards

6204624861	Factories	Trading stations with resident merchants established by the Portuguese and other Europeans.	0
6204624862	Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua	A former slave, native of Zooggoo (who was Muslim), West Africa, a tributary kingdom of Bergoo kingdom. He worked in Brazil as a captive, however he escaped and fled to New York in 1847, assuring his freedom. He later writes an autobiography on his life in 1854.	1
6204624863	El Mina	Important Portuguese factory on the coast of modern Ghana.	2
6204624864	Lancados	Afro-Portuguese traders who joined the economies of the African interior with coastal centers.	3
6204624865	Nzinga Mvemba	Ruler of the Kongo kingdom (1507-1543); converted to Christianity and was renamed Alfonso I; his efforts to integrate Portuguese and African ways foundered because of the slave trade.	4
6204624866	Luanda	Portuguese settlement founded in the 1520s; became the core for the colony of Angola.	5
6204624867	Royal African Company	Chartered in Britain in the 1660s to establish a monopoly over the African trade; supplied slaves to British New World colonies.	6
6204624868	Indies Piece	A unit in the complex exchange system of the west African trade; based on the value of an adult male slave.	7
6204624869	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.	8
6204624870	Asante	Akan state centered at Kumasi on the Gold Coast (now Ghana).	9
6204624871	Osei Tutu	Important ruler who began centralization and expansion of Asante.	10
6204624872	Asantehene	Title, created by Osei Tutu, of the civil and religious ruler of Asante.	11
6204624873	Benin	African kingdom in the Bight of Benin; at the height of its power when Europeans arrived; active slave-trading state; famous for its bronze-casting techniques.	12
6204624874	Dahomey	African state among the Fon or Aja peoples; developed in the 17th century and centered at Abomey; became a major slave-trading state through use of Western firearms.	13
6204624875	Luo	Nilotic people who migrated from the upper Nile regions to establish dynasties in the lakes region of central Africa.	14
6204624876	Uthman Dan Fodio	Muslim Fulani leader who launched a great religious movement among the Hausa.	15
6204624877	Great Trek	Movement inland during the 1830s of Dutch-ancestry settlers in South Africa seeking to escape their British colonial government.	16
6204624878	Shaka	Ruler among the Nguni peoples of southeast Africa during the early 19th century; developed military tactics that created the Zulu state.	17
6204624879	Mfecane	Wars among Africans in southern Africa during the early 19th century; caused migrations and alterations in African political organization.	18
6204624880	Swazi and Lesotho	African states formed by peoples reacting to the stresses of the Mfecane.	19
6204624881	Middle Passage	Slave voyage from Africa to the Americas; a deadly and traumatic experience.	20
6204624882	Obeah	African religious practices in the British American islands.	21
6204624883	Candomble	African religious practices in Brazil among the Yoruba.	22
6204624884	Vodun	African religious practices among descendants in Haiti.	23
6204624885	Palmares	Angolan-led, large runaway slave state in 17th-century Brazil.	24
6204624886	Suriname Maroons	Descendants of 18th-century runaway slaves who found permanent refuge in the rain forests of Suriname and French Guiana.	25
6204624887	William Wilberforce	British reformer who led the abolitionist movement that ended the British slave trade in 1807.	26
6204624888	Polgyny	The practice of having more than one wife at a time.	27
6204624889	Oba	Term used for king in the kingdom of Benin.	28
6204624890	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.	29
6204624891	Boer	The Dutch and Afrikaans word for "farmer". As used in South Africa, it was used to denote the descendants of the Dutch-speaking settlers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 18th century.	30
6204624892	Afrikaners	Another term used for the Boer	31
6204624893	Voortrekkers	Boer farmers who migrated further into South Africa during the 1830s and 1840s.	32
6204624894	Zulu Wars	War fought in 1879 between the British and the African Zulu tribes.	33
6204624895	Diaspora	The dispersion of a group of people after the conquest of their homeland.	34
6204624896	Saltwater Slaves	Slaves transported from Africa; almost invariably black.	35
6204624897	Creole Slaves	American-born descendants of saltwater slaves; result of sexual exploitation of slave women or process of miscegenation.	36