chapter 25 Flashcards
Sunni Ali (vocab)
Songhay ruler from 1464-1493 who conquered his neighbors and consolidated the empire
King Nizinga Mbemba (vocab)
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
Queen Nzinga (vocab)
Queen of Ndongo from 1623-1663 who fought to drive out Portuguese colonizers and create her own central African empire
Khoikhoi (vocab)
hunting and gathering peoples of Southern Africa who were overtaken by the Dutch in the 17th and 18th century
Fulani (vocab)
Sub-Saharan African group that waged wars to try to impose their own interpretation of Islam in the 17th century
Dona Beatriz (vocab)
Aristocratic woman who claimed to be possessed by St. Anthony and started the Antonian movement
Olaudah Equiano (vocab)
A freed slave who wrote an autobiography about his experiences as a slave, and was a leader in the antislavery movement in England
Timbuktu (vocab)
Market city on the trans-Saharan caravan routes that became a prosperous trading center
Jenne-Jeno (vocab)
A center of iron production and trade that emerged around 400 CE, becoming the main commercial crossroad of west Africa
Swahili (vocab)
City states of east Africa that controlled trade
Great Zimbabwe (vocab)
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
Saint-Domingue (vocab)
18th century French sugar colony that was subject to a slave revolt
Haiti (vocab)
The land of Saint-Domingue was renamed after a successful slave revolt in 1793
Ghana Empire (vocab)
It was the principal state of west Africa from the 8th to the 13th century
Mali Empire (vocab)
A powerful kingdom that emerged in the first half of the 13th century after the collapse of the Ghana Empire
Songhay Empire (vocab)
The dominant state in the western African grasslands during the 15th and 16th centuries, forming after the decline of the Mali
Kongo (vocab)
Prosperous state with tightly centralized government actively participating in trade networks for copper, cloth, and shells
Ndongo (vocab)
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
Antonian Movement (vocab)
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
Atlantic Slave Trade (vocab)
From the 15th to 19th centuries, Europeans traded African slaves for manufactured goods
Islamic Slave Trade (vocab)
Muslim networks that transported and estimated 10 million Africans to foreign lands between 750 and 1500 CE