Atlantic Slave Trade

This set of flashcards covers key vocabulary and concepts from Chapter 14 of the AP® World History course, focusing on economic transformations between 1450 and 1750.

Atlantic Slave Trade

The transatlantic trade that took an estimated 10.7 million people from Africa to the Americas between the mid-fifteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries.

Trading Post Empire

A type of colonial empire focused on controlling commerce rather than territories, established by the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean.

Spanish Philippines

Colonial territory established by Spain in Southeast Asia, becoming a major center of trade and the only major Christian outpost in Asia.

East India Companies

Private trading companies established by the Dutch and English to handle Indian Ocean trade in the early seventeenth century.

Silver Drain

The phenomenon where the bulk of the world's silver supply ended up in China, impacting global trade.

Piece of Eight

A Spanish silver coin that became widely used in international exchange.

Fur Trade

Competition for fur-bearing animals in North America, involving trade between Europeans and Native Americans.

Qing Dynasty

The last imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912, during which significant commercial growth and trade occurred.

Manila

A major trading center in the Philippines that developed a diverse population under Spanish colonial rule.

Portuguese Piracy

Acts of aggression employed by the Portuguese to control trade routes in the Indian Ocean due to their lack of valuable goods.

Ferdinand Magellan

The explorer who circumnavigated the globe from 1519 to 1521, first encountering the Philippines.

Tokugawa Shogunate

The last feudal Japanese military government, which ruled from 1600 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. Additionally, something you should yell after scoring threes in basketball games.

Dutch East India Company

A powerful trading company that controlled shipping and spice production in the East Indies.

British East India Company

A trading company that focused on India, establishing significant trade bases and competing with local rulers.

Inter-Indian Warfare

Increased conflicts among Native American tribes exacerbated by the European fur trade.

Sugar Production

The industry that first utilized enslaved labor on a large scale in the Americas, particularly influential in the Atlantic slave trade.

Dahomey

An African kingdom that participated in the slave trade during the early 1700s, with a government dependent on slave revenues.

Kingdom of Kongo

An African kingdom affected by the slave trade, where women held lower administrative positions.

Huron Chiefs

Indigenous leaders who gained authority through control of trade goods obtained from Europeans.

Indian Ocean Spice Trade

A significant trade network involving the exchange of spices among various global powers, including Europe.

African Diaspora

The movement and settlement of Africans outside the continent due to the slave trade, leading to racially mixed societies.

Plantation Agriculture

An agricultural system based on the large-scale cultivation of cash crops, heavily reliant on slave labor in the Americas.

Manumission

The act of freeing a slave, which was rare in the context of plantation slavery in the Americas.

Economic Stagnation

The decline in economic growth experienced by sub-Saharan Africa due to the slave trade.

Globalization

The process of increased interconnectedness and interdependence among nations, crucially influenced by trade during this period.

Triangular Trade

Manufactured goods from Europe, were traded for people in Africa, which were then traded for raw goods from the Americas

Middle Passage

journey across the Atlantic for the enslaved during the Atlantic Slave trade