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Question 1

what is the word for people who developed trading routesfrom the angolan interior to the Atlantic coast

Answer 1

Pombeiros

Question 2

Until when di the peopled of the Angolan interior contunue to be dominated by the wars of the slave trade?

Answer 2

until well into the nineteenth century

Question 3

What was the Angolan interior like in relation to the slave trade?

Answer 3

a regular source of slaves throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Question 4

what increased the supply of captives to the coast

Answer 4

what increased the supply of captives to the coast?

Question 5

From when did Sao Tome develop as a source of slaves for the transatlantic slave trade

Answer 5

1530s

Question 6

who were the pombeiros?

Answer 6

Term originally referred to Europena and Afro-European tradrs who pioneered new slaving routes from the Kongolese interior to the coast. Became a general term for slave traders.

Question 7

What was Sao Tome?

Answer 7

An island used by the portuguese to grow sugar. Discovered along with principe in the 1480s

Question 8

In wahte years did the portuguese arrive off the coast of west central Africa

Answer 8

1480s

Question 9

What was the motive for the Moroccan Invasion of Songhay

Answer 9

To seize control of the salt mines at awdoghust.

Question 10

When did the Morroccan invasion of Songhay occur

Answer 10

1591