Year 8 History EQ2 Dates, Terms and People

Race

Categorisation of humans by physical appearance

Racism

Discrimination based on belief in a hierarchy of races

Racist trope

Recurring racist ideas (e.g. Africans lack culture)

Climate theory

Idea that skin colour was based on exposure to the sun

Curse theory

Idea that Africans were cursed by God. Idea Africans were the sons of Ham, a bible figure whose sons were cursed by God

Colonisation

Settling one group of people on the land of another group of people

Powhatan

Native American tribe who helped but then attacked the Jamestown colony

Coat of arms

Symbol of noble status. It represents the reason for the granting of the noble status

1518

Alonso de Zuazo letter

1526

Description of Africa by Leo Africanus

1562

John Hawkins’ slave trade voyage

1596

Privy Council’s ‘those kind of people’ letter

1600

Moroccan ambassador visits England

1603

Othello performed

1622

Jamestown Massacre

1641

Massachusetts Body of Liberties

1646

Pseudodoxia Epidemica Published

1657

Elizabeth Key Case

1661

Barbados Slave Code

1688

Jamaican Slave Act

Alonso de Zuazo

Spanish government official in the colony of Santo Domingo

Leo Africanus

North African writer born in Spain

Pliny the Elder

Roman writer whose Natural History described Africans

Sir John Hawkins

Led England’s first slave voyage. Took 300 Africans from Sierra Leone to the Americas in 1562

Abd ben Messaoud

Moroccan ambassador. Visited England in 1600

Pocahontas

Daughter of Powhatan. Married Englishman John Rolfe

Elizabeth Keys

Enslaved woman freed by the courts because her father was white and she was baptised