AP World History: Chapter 17 Flashcards

8659902409	Niger River	A geographic location near which the city of Gao thrived and the Songhay people resided	0
8659902410	Creole	A mother tongue formed from contact of a European language with a local languages	1
8659902411	Barracoons	Slave castles	2
8659902412	Gullah/Geechee	Creole languages of South Carolina and Georgia in places where slaves composed 75% of the population	3
8659902413	Santeria	African-Christian syncretic religion in Cuba	4
8659902414	Vodun	African-Christian syncretic religion in Haiti	5
8659902415	Candomblé	African-Christian syncretic religion in Brazil	6
8659902416	Gumbo	A dish consisting of rich and okra with African roots popular in southern US	7
8659902417	Polygyny	Practice of taking more than one wife	8
8659902418	Atlantic trading system (aka triangular trade)	Transport of goods and Africans between West Africa, America, and Europe	9
8659902419	African Diaspora	Dispersion of Africans out of Africa	10
8659902420	Sunni Ali	Ruler of Songhay people and creator of Songhay Empire	11
8659902421	Abolition	Annulment of slavery	12
8659902422	Dahomey and Oyo	African societies that conducted slave raids and became richer from slave trade with Europeans	13
8659902423	Vasco da Gama	Portuguese explorer who invaded the Swahili city states of East Africa in 1498	14
8659902424	Ile de Gorée (Gorée Island)	A site on the coast of Senegal where the House of Slaves stands	15
8659902425	Saint Domingue	French colony on Caribbean island	16
8659902426	Middle Passage	A stage of the triangular trade in which millions of Africans were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic Slave Trade	17
8659902427	Plantations in the West Indies	A major center of the Atlantic economy in terms of sugar plantations, African slaves, and European capital	18
8659902428	The Tobacco Era	Tobacco is used by Amerindians for recreation and medicine; found a new market among seventeenth-century Europeans	19
8659902429	Dutch West Indian Company	Trading company chartered by the Dutch government to conduct its merchants' trade in the Americas and Africa	20
8659902430	The Slave Trade	The expansion of sugar plantation in the West Indies required a sharp increase in the volume of the slave trade from Africa	21
8659902431	Indentured Servants	Servants who signed a contract by which they agreed to work for a certain number of years in exchange for transportation to Virginia and, once they arrived, food, clothing, and shelter	22
8659902432	Plantocracy	In the West Indian colonies, the rich men who owned most of the slaves and most of the land, especially in the 18th century	23
8659902433	Driver	A privileged male slave whose job was to ensue that a slave gang did its work on a plantation	24
8659902434	Manumission	The act of an owner freeing his or her slaves	25
8659902435	Maroon	A slave who ran away from his or her master	26
8659902436	Capitalism	The economic system of large financial institutions (banks, stocks, exchanges, investment companies) that first developed in early modern Europe	27
8659902437	Mercantilism	The system that sought to monopolize the profits produced in colonial empires by controlling trade and accumulating capital in the form of gold and silver	28
8659902438	Royal African Company (RAC)	An English mercantile company set up by the Stuart family and City of London merchants to trade along the west coast of Africa	29
8659902439	Atlantic Circuit	The network of trade routes connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas that underlay the Atlantic system	30
8659902441	African Slave Trade	The flow of sugar to Europe depended on the flow of slaves from Africa	31
8659902442	African Participation in the Slave Trade	African merchants were very discriminating about merchandise they took in exchange for slaves or goods	32
8659902443	West Africa and Islam	North Africa had become part of the Islamic world during the Islamic expansion	33
8659902444	The Islamic Slave Trade	Substantial slave trade to the Islamic North (Middle East and India) from Sub-Saharan Africa through Red Sea and Indian Ocean(1600-1800 C.E.)	34
8659902445	Atlantic Vs. Muslim Slave Trades	The Atlantic trade carried about 8 million Africans to the Americas (1550-1800 C.E.) The Islamic trade to North Africa and the Middle East transported around 2 million African captives	35