Chapter 25

Question 1

thomas peters

Answer 1

west african man who was sold as a slave multiple times and eventually established a colony for former slaves in sierra leone (freetown)

Question 2

atlantic slave trade

Answer 2

in which africans were sold typically to the caribbean or the americas working on plantations cultivating cash crops for export

Question 3

kingdom of ghana

Answer 3

controlled and taxed the trans-saharan trade in gold, allowing kings to field large army and influence affairs in west africa

Question 4

mali empire

Answer 4

replaced ghana as preeminent power in west africa but continued to control trans-saharan trade

Question 5

songhay

Answer 5

based in trading city of gao, dominated central niger valley

Question 6

sunni ali

Answer 6

songhay ruler who consolidated the songhay empire and created an imperial navy to patrol the niger river

Question 7

timbukti and jenne

Answer 7

important trading cities brought under songhay control by sunni ali

Question 8

kingdom of kanem-bornu

Answer 8

dominated region around lake chad (west africa) after songhay empire crumbled

Question 9

the hausa people

Answer 9

established thriving commercial city-states to the west of lake chad (west africa) after songhay empire crumbled

Question 10

oyo and asante peoples

Answer 10

built powerful regional kingdoms in forests south of the grasslands (west africa) after songhay empire crumbled

Question 11

diula and mande

Answer 11

established states on the coasts of west africa after songhay empire crumbled. entered into commercial restions with european marchant-mariners

Question 12

vasco da gama

Answer 12

portuguese mariner who attacked swahili ports and took over mozambique and malindi, sending swahili cities into a decline

Question 13

kingdom of kongo

Answer 13

had political and diplomatic relationships with portuguese merchants. converted to christianity to establish closer relationships with the portuguese

Question 14

king nzinga mbemba / king afonso i

Answer 14

king of kongo, became devout roman catholic and wanted to convert all his subjects to christianity

Question 15

mbanza / são salvador

Answer 15

kongo capital, aka “kongo of the bell” bc lots of churches

Question 16

kingdom of ndongo / angola

Answer 16

portuguese merchants founded a small coastal colony in ndongo, wanted it to support large-scale trading in slaves

Question 17

ngola

Answer 17

title of the king in kingdom of ndongo

Question 18

queen nzinga

Answer 18

queen of ndonga, resisted portuguese forces, wanted subjects to refer to her as king (LADY MACBETH???)

Question 19

great zimbabwe

Answer 19

a regional kingdom built a stone-fortified city known as great zimbabwe and dominated a gold-bearing plain

Question 20

cape town

Answer 20

dutch mariners built a trading post at cape town

Question 21

khoikhoi people / hottentots

Answer 21

dutch mariners encountered these hunters and gatherers at cape town and commandeered khoikhoi labor

Question 22

timbuktu

Answer 22

trading city that had a prominent islamic university and 180 schools that taught the quran

Question 23

the fulani

Answer 23

originally a pastoral people, later led military campaigns to establish islamic states and impose their own brand of islam in west africa. promoted spread of islam to the countryside

Question 24

the antonian movement

Answer 24

led by dona beatriz who said that st anthony of padua possessed her. promoted an african form of christianity

Question 25

st antony

Answer 25

franciscan missionary and popular preacher, popular among portuguese christians

Question 26

king pedro iv

Answer 26

king of kongo, persuaded by christian missionaries to arrest dona beatriz :0

Question 27

the islamic slave trade

Answer 27

muslim merchants sought african slaves for sale. when traditional sources were insufficient to satisfy demand for slaves, the merchants raided villages and forced innocent ppl to servitude

Question 28

island of são tomé

Answer 28

had sugar plantations which called for many slaves

Question 29

triangular trade

Answer 29

european ships often undertook voyages on three legs

Question 30

leg 1 of triangular trade

Answer 30

european ships carried horses and european manufactured goods which they exchanged in sub-saharan africa for slaves

Question 31

leg 2 of triangular trade

Answer 31

european ships took enslaved africans to caribbean and american destinations

Question 32

leg 3 of triangular trade

Answer 32

european merchants sold their human cargoes, filled their vessels' hulls with american products, and went back to europe

Question 33

the "middle passage"

Answer 33

the trans-atlantic journey aboard filthy and crowded slave ships

Question 34

kingdoms of rwanda and burguna, herding societies of the masai and turkana

Answer 34

largely escaped the slave trade because they resisted it and because their lands were distant from the major slave ports on the west african ports

Question 35

asante, dahomey, and oyo peoples

Answer 35

took advantage of the slave trade to obtain firearms from european merchants and build powerful states in west africa

Question 36

kingdom of dahomey

Answer 36

when the kingdom of dahomey obtained firearms, its armies were able to capture slaves from unarmed neighboring societies and exchange them for more weapons, resulting in its expansion

Question 37

maroons

Answer 37

runaway slaves who gathered in mountainous, forested, or swampy regions and built their own self-governing communities

Question 38

the saramaka people in present-day suriname

Answer 38

maintain an elaborate oral tradition that traces their descent from maroons

Question 39

saint-domingue

Answer 39

french sugar colony where a slave revolt abolished slavery as an institution. slaves declared independence from france, renamed the land as haiti, and established a self-governing republic

Question 40

the stono rebellion

Answer 40

slaves used drums to signal one another to rise up during the stono rebellion in south carolina

Question 41

olaudah equiano

Answer 41

west african who published an autobiography about his experiences as a slave and a free man