Africa 1450-1750 Vocabulary

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Factories

trading stations with resident merchants established by the Portuguese and other Europeans

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El Mina

 important Portuguese factory on the coast of modern Ghana

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Nzinga Mvemba

ruler of the Kongo kingdom (1507–1543); converted to Christianity; his efforts to integrate Portuguese and African ways foundered because of the slave trade

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Royal African Company

chartered in Britain in the 1660s to establish a monopoly over the African trade; supplied slaves to British New World colonies

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Indies piece

a unit in the complex exchange system of the West African trade; based on the value of an adult male slave

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Triangular trade

complex commercial pattern linking Africa, the Americas, and Europe; slaves from Africa went to the New World; American agricultural products went to Europe; European goods went to Africa

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Asante

Akan state among the Akan people of Ghana and centered at Kumasi

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Benin

 African kingdom in the Bight of Benin; at the height of its power when Europeans arrived; famous for its bronze casting techniques

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Dahomey

African state among the Fon peoples; developed in the 17th century centered at Abomey; became a major slave trading state through utilization of Western firearms

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Great Trek

movement inland during the 1830s of Dutch-ancestry settlers in South Africa seeking to escape their British colonial government

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Shaka

ruler among the Nguni peoples of southeast Africa during the early 19th century; developed military tactics that created the Zulu state

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Mfecane

 wars among Africans in southern Africa during the early 19th century; caused migrations and alterations in African political organization

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Swazi and Lesotho

African states formed by people reacting to the stresses of the Mfecane

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Middle Passage

slave voyage from Africa to the Americas; a deadly and traumatic experience

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Saltwater slaves

name given to slaves born in Africa; distinguished from American-born descendants, the creoles

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Obeah

African religious practices in the British American islands

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Candomble

African religious practices in Brazil among the Yoruba

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Vodun

African religious practices among descendants in Haiti

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