Chapters 20-22: The World Shrinks Flashcards
What are the three gunpowder colonies?
Benin, Asante, and Danomey
The Portuguese converted what ruler to Christianity?
Nzinga Mvemba of Kongo
What is the term used to describe the scattering of the 12 million slaves, mostly men, across America?
Diaspora
Luanda, a Portugal slave trading post, grew into what slaving colony?
Angola
What is the African religion still practiced in places like Haiti today?
Voodoo, formerly called Vodun
What is the term used to describe slaves that were right off the boat and not trusted as much as slaves born in the Americas?
Salt-water slaves
What is the term used to describe slaves whose families have been in the Americas for ages and were born in the Americas?
Creoles
What did slaves do to escape slavery while in South Africa?
Runaway to rainforest communities
The Gun and Slave cycle caused destructive wars, but some colonies in West Africa prospered. What are these colonies?
Benin, Asante, and Danomey
In South Africa, what settlers enslaved and displaces Africans?
Dutch
What is the name of the elite military of the Ottoman Empire?
Janissaries
How is the Sokoto Caliphate similar to Mali and Songhay?
Ruled by Muslims
What ruler of the Ottoman Empire built a famous mosk in Constantinople?
Suleyman the Magnificent
Who was part of the triangular trade and what did they trade?
- Europe- manufactured goods
- Africa- slaves
- Americas- raw goods
What Japanese shogunate isolated Japan from 1630 to the next 250 years?
Tokugawa
The ruler of the Mughal Empire was harsh to non-Muslim groups. The Hindus and what other group rises up in rebellion?
The Sikhs
What nation in the 1500s was briefly the world leader in firearms?
Japan
Who was the famous ruler of the Mughal Empire?
Akbar
The Mughal empire grew more powerful because the boom in demand of what?
Fine cotton textiles
What country in the Americas brought more slaves than any other?
Brazil
What is the name of the journey from Africa to America during the slave trade?
The Middle Passage
After the Ming Dynasty is overthrown by a peasant rebellion, what foreign group takes power?
The Manchu
What was the only country in Asia with significant conversions to Christianity?
Philippines
What black African militant group became dominant and fought other black African militant groups?
Zulu
What island in Indonesia was colonized by the Netherlands?
Java