Atlantic Slave Trade
This name was given to the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean.
What was the Middle Passage?
British textile factories relied heavily on this crop produced by enslaved workers in the Americas.
What is cotton?
The Carthaginian general Hannibal famously took these animals across the Alps to attack Rome.
What are elephants?
American colonists dumped crates of this drink into a harbour during a famous protest in 1773.
What is tea?
Benjamin Franklin flew one of these during a thunderstorm to investigate whether lightning was electrical.
What is a kite?
Enslaved people in the Americas were forced to work on these large agricultural estates, which usually specialised in producing cash crops such as sugar, cotton or tobacco for sale and export.
What is a plantation?
European countries took control of overseas territories to gain resources, markets and political power through this process.
What is imperialism?
In 1932, Australian soldiers were sent to fight thousands of these flightless birds.
What are emus?
The failure of this crop contributed to devastating famine and mass migration from Ireland in the 1840s.
What is the potato?
For centuries, doctors tried to cure illness by removing a patient’s blood through this dangerous treatment.
What is bloodletting?
European goods, enslaved Africans and plantation products were transported along this system commonly known by this geometric name.
What was triangular trade?
This invention mechanised the separation of cotton fibres from their seeds, increasing demand for enslaved labour in the United States.
What is the cotton gin?
Laika became the female to orbit Earth when the Soviet Union sent this animal into space.
What is a dog?
Gandhi led a famous march in 1930 to protest British laws controlling this common seasoning.
What is salt?
To test a new safety device in 1912, Franz Reichelt jumped from the Eiffel Tower while wearing his homemade version of this invention.
What is a parachute?
European enslavers used this false belief in their own racial superiority to justify enslaving African people.
What is racism?
Enslavers used this justification to claim that enslaved people required their supposedly father-like protection and control.
What is paternalism?
Ancient sources claim that the Roman emperor Caligula planned to appoint Incitatus, his favourite animal, as consul.
What is a horse?
The Aztecs valued the beans used to make this food so highly that they also used them as a form of currency.
What is chocolate/cocoa/cacao? (any of these answers)
Elizabethan nobles applied cosmetics containing this toxic metal to make their faces appear fashionably pale.
What is lead?
In 1781, the crew of this slave ship deliberately threw more than 130 enslaved Africans overboard before its owners filed an insurance claim.
What was Zong?
Europeans used this idea to falsely claim that colonisation and enslavement brought progress and European culture to other peoples.
What was the civilising mission?
Named Wojtek, this animal helped Polish soldiers carry ammunition during World War II.
What is a bear?
In eighteenth-century Europe, wealthy people displayed this expensive tropical fruit at banquets as a symbol of status.
What is a pineapple?
For centuries, some Europeans ground up and swallowed material taken from these ancient Egyptian artefacts as medicine.
What are mummies?