Chapter 25 Flashcards
Black Pioneers
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Thomas Peters
West African man who crossed the Atlantic four times. Served as leader of black community in Freetown
Gao
Trading city and site of a flourishing city-state built by Songhay rulers
Sunni Ali
Songhay ruler who embarked on a campaign to conquer his neighbors and consolidated the Songhay empire
Afonso I
Became a devout Roman Catholic and sought to convert all his subjects to Christianity.
King Nzinga Mbemba
another name for Afonso I
Ndongo/Angola
Grew from a small chiefdom to a powerful regional kingdom. Portuguese merchants founded a small coastal colony here. (aka Angola b/c of the king: Ngola.)
Queen Nzinga
Spirite resistance against Portuguese forces for 40 years. (Dressed as a man, preferred to be called king rather than queen)
Great Zimbabwe
A massive, stone fortified city (near the city of Nyanda in modern Zimbabwe.)
Khoikhoi
Hunting and gathering people’s which Portuguese & Dutch Mariners encountered in Cape Town.
Timbuktu
trading city which had a prominent Islamic university and 180 schools that taught the Quran.
Fulani
(Originally a pastoral people who for centuries kept herds of cattle in the Savannas of West Africa.) Thought that a pure form of Islam was better.
Dona Beatriz
Aristocratic woman who proclaimed St. Anthony of Padua had possesed Her & chosen her to communicate his messages. Used her prominence to promote African Christianity.
San Dominique
FRENCH sugar colony where a slave revolt (The Haitian Revolution) abolished slavery.