AMSCO AP World History Chapter 17 Vocab Flashcards

5666092019	Sunni Ali	He reigned from about 1464 to 1492. He was the first king of the Songhai Empire, located in Africa and the 15th ruler of the Sonni dynasty.	0
5666093232	Barracoons	An enclosure in which black slaves were confined for a limited period.	1
5666093233	Vasco de Gama	Portuguese explorer. He led the first European expedition around the Cape of Good Hope in 1497, sighting and naming Natal on Christmas Day before crossing the Indian Ocean and arriving in Calicut (Kozhikode, in India) in 1498.	2
5666095042	Triangular Trade	A multilateral system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one country by its exports to another.	3
5666096424	Middle Passage	The sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.	4
5666096425	African Diaspora	Refers to the communities throughout the world that have resulted by descent from the movement in historic times of peoples from Africa, predominantly to the Americas and among other areas around the globe.	5
5666099707	Abolition	The action or an act of abolishing a system, practice, or institution.	6
5666099708	Dahomey	Was an African kingdom (located in the area of the present-day country of Benin) that existed from about 1600 until 1894, when the last king, Behanzin, was defeated by the French, and the country was annexed into the French colonial empire.	7
5666104764	Saint Domingue	Was a French colony on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola from 1659 to 1804. The French had established themselves on the western portion of the islands of Hispaniola and Tortuga by 1659.	8