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Sunni Ali (vocab)

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Songhay ruler from 1464-1493 who conquered his neighbors and consolidated the empire

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King Nizinga Mbemba (vocab)

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Also known as King Afonoso I, he was king of the Kongo from 1506 to 1542, who became a devout Roman Catholic and sought to convert all his subjects to Christianity

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Queen Nzinga (vocab)

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Queen of Ndongo from 1623-1663 who fought to drive out Portuguese colonizers and create her own central African empire

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Khoikhoi (vocab)

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hunting and gathering peoples of Southern Africa who were overtaken by the Dutch in the 17th and 18th century

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Fulani (vocab)

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Sub-Saharan African group that waged wars to try to impose their own interpretation of Islam in the 17th century

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Dona Beatriz (vocab)

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Aristocratic woman who claimed to be possessed by St. Anthony and started the Antonian movement

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Olaudah Equiano (vocab)

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A freed slave who wrote an autobiography about his experiences as a slave, and was a leader in the antislavery movement in England

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Timbuktu (vocab)

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Market city on the trans-Saharan caravan routes that became a prosperous trading center

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Jenne-Jeno (vocab)

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A center of iron production and trade that emerged around 400 CE, becoming the main commercial crossroad of west Africa

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Swahili (vocab)

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City states of east Africa that controlled trade

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Great Zimbabwe (vocab)

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A city made of stone towers that acted as a capital city and controlled trade between inland and coastal Africa, starting in the early 13th century

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Saint-Domingue (vocab)

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18th century French sugar colony that was subject to a slave revolt

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Haiti (vocab)

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The land of Saint-Domingue was renamed after a successful slave revolt in 1793

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Ghana Empire (vocab)

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It was the principal state of west Africa from the 8th to the 13th century

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Mali Empire (vocab)

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A powerful kingdom that emerged in the first half of the 13th century after the collapse of the Ghana Empire

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Songhay Empire (vocab)

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The dominant state in the western African grasslands during the 15th and 16th centuries, forming after the decline of the Mali

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Kongo (vocab)

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Prosperous state with tightly centralized government actively participating in trade networks for copper, cloth, and shells

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Ndongo (vocab)

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A powerful regional kingdom, referred to as Angola by the Portuguese, that became extremely wealthy by trading directly with Portuguese merchants rather than through the Kongolese

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Antonian Movement (vocab)

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Syncretic cult in Kongo that was started by Dona Beatriz in 1704, which taught that Jesus was a black African man, Kongo was the holy land, and that heaven was for Africans

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Atlantic Slave Trade (vocab)

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From the 15th to 19th centuries, Europeans traded African slaves for manufactured goods

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Islamic Slave Trade (vocab)

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Muslim networks that transported and estimated 10 million Africans to foreign lands between 750 and 1500 CE

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Manioc (vocab)

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American crop that became very important because of its high yield and cultivability

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Triangular trade (vocab)

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Trade routes between Europe, Africa, and the Americas that traded slaves and goods

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Middle Passage (vocab)

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The trans-Atlantic leg of the Triangular trade and the most brutal for slaves

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African Diaspora (vocab)

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The dispersal of African peoples and their descendants

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Plantations (vocab)

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Estates with fertile land that produced cash crops

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Cash Crops (vocab)

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crops that are sold for a high profit

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Creole (vocab)

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A group of languages used by slaves in the Americas that combines European and African tongues

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Gullah and Geechee (vocab)

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Creole languages commonly used by slaves in South Carolina and Georgia

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Voudou, Santeria, and Candomblé (vocab)

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Syncretic slaves religions that became popular in South America and the Caribbean

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The rise of maritime trade in the early modern era of Africa resulted in…

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regional kingdoms replacing the imperial states of West Africa

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The decline of the Songhay empire, and the several small city-states that emerged afterword, were the result of…

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Moroccan forces attacking and revolting against the empire

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All Songhay emperors were…

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The Songhay capital city of Gao occupied…

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75,000 residents, many whom participated in trans-Saharan trade

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Afonso I’s alliance with Portugal brought…

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wealth and recognition to Kongo, but also the eventual destruction of it

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The arrival of the Europeans in Africa…

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dramatically increased previously existing slave networks

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By 1700, large numbers of what had begun to arrive in south Africa?

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Dutch colonists

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In sub-Saharan Africa, Islam was most popular in…

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the commercial centers of west Africa and the Swahili city-states of east Africa

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Runaway slaves contributed to the spread of…

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Islam and Christianity into sub-Saharan Africa

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How many Africans were forcefully brought to the Americas as part of the trans-Atlantic slave trade?

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12 million

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From the 15th to 19th century, European peoples looked to whereas a source of labor for their plantations?

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From the 15th to 18th century, slave exports rose from 2,000 a year to…

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55,000 a year

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The vast majority of slaves provided…

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agricultural labor on plantations

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In 1516, Spanish colonists established the first plantations on…

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the island of Hispaniola

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Among the prominent cash crops of the New World, the cultivation of coffee and cotton did not emerge until…

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the 18th century

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Runaway slaves who gathered in mountainous and forested regions were known as…

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Slave revolts resulted in widespread death and destruction, but…

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never actually brought an end to slavery

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In 1793, the slaves of Saint Domingue…

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declared independence from France and established Haiti

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The only successful slave revolt in history, resulting in the establishment of a new state, was…

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the Haitian Revolution

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The languages of Gullah and Geeche are both examples of…

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Creole languages in the American south

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Frequent slave revolts in the 18th and 19th century made slavery…

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an expensive and dangerous business

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Freed slaves contributed to the abolitionist cause by…

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writing books that exposed brutality of institutional slavery

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The abolition of slavery was…

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a long, drawn-out process lasting until 1960

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