Moors, Europ and slave trade Flashcards
Once the PSanish had defeated the Moors what were they able to turn their resources and attention to
Building fortresses along the coast of wester Africa (elmina)
Who wer the monarchs of the newly united Spain
Ferdinand and Isabella
What was the last Moorish stronghold to fall on the Iberian peninsula? When did it fall?
Granada. 1492
what first provoked European interest in West Africa
Gold
Waht was the treatise wherbey Brazil was given to portugal and the all land west of Brazil was given to Spain. What year?
The treaty of tordesillas (1496)
How many Africans were taken into slavery by muslims? between what years? how many were taken into Asia.
5 million between the eighth and nineteenth centuries. 2.5 million
How did Islamic law affect the slave gathering practices of Muslims?
Islamic law forbid the enslavement of other Muslims. thus, merchants sought non-muslims in the sub-saharan regions
When did the Portuguese initiate trading posts along the West African coasts near the ___ gold fields? What was their first fortress?
1470s Akan.
Elmira
What were some reasons on could be enslaved in the pre-Asiento period?
being a criminal, owing a debt, captured in war, being born an orphan,
What did Portuguese trade with Akan for Gold?
Copper, Cloth, brass; also captives from Benin who were sold to work the Akan mines
What currency did the Portuguese initiate
Indian Cowrie shells
How is Songhay and trans-saharan gold trade affected by the arrival of the Portuguese?
The Portuguese disrupt established trade routes and gold is increasing diverted to routes controlled by the Portuguese
Where and when did the sugar plantation originally develop?
within Southern spain potugal, and the mediterranean. Theyd used african Captives as well as slaves from southern russia
Where did most of the first captive Africans come from and where were they transported to?
Senegal and Gambia (regions within Moorish boundaries) and were transported to Spain and Portugal
When where who: the first Africans taken across the Atlantic?
1532, to South America, by the Portuguese.
