Trade
Which European country developed growing trade relationships with West African kingdoms in the late 15th century?
Portugal
Name one reason African elites traveled to Mediterranean port cities.
Diplomacy, education, or religion.
Which European country colonized Cabo Verde and São Tomé?
Portugal
What type of agricultural system did the Portuguese establish on Cabo Verde and São Tomé?
By 1500, approximately how many enslaved Africans had been removed from the African continent?
About 50,000.
Name the main three things traded between Portugal and West African kingdoms.
Gold, goods, and enslaved people.
African ambassadors and these members of royal families traveled to Mediterranean port cities.
Children of rulers.
Portugal's growing involvement in West Africa increased the population of sub-Saharan Africans in these two Iberian port cities.
Lisbon and Seville.
Name the three crops specifically identified in the unit as being grown on Portuguese plantations.
Cotton, indigo, and sugar.
Where were many of these enslaved Africans taken?
Portuguese-colonized Atlantic islands and Europe.
Portuguese trade with West African kingdoms increasingly bypassed these older trade routes.
Trans-Saharan trade routes.
Name two main reasons African elites traveled to Europe.
Diplomatic, educational, and/or religious reasons.
In the mid-15th century, Portugal colonized these two Atlantic islands
Cabo Verde and São Tomé.
What type of labor did Portuguese plantations use?
Enslaved African labor.
Name the two Portuguese-colonized Atlantic islands discussed in this unit.
Cabo Verde and São Tomé.
According to the unit, how did slave trading affect some West African kingdoms?
It increased their wealth and power.
Why is it important to recognize that Africans in Europe had different experiences?
Some Africans traveled as free elites for diplomacy, education, or religion, while other Africans were enslaved and performed various types of labor.
Name three types of work free and enslaved Africans performed in European cities.
Domestic labor, boatmen, guards, entertainers, vendors, or knights.
Why are the plantations on Cabo Verde and São Tomé important to the history of the Americas?
They became a model for slave-labor-based economies in the Americas.
What development on Portuguese-controlled Atlantic islands helped create a model that was later used in the Americas?
The establishment of plantations using enslaved African labor.
This type of trade between Portugal and West African kingdoms increased European presence in West Africa.
Trade involving gold, goods, and enslaved people.
What connection does the unit make between Portuguese Atlantic plantations and later economies in the Americas?
The Portuguese plantations using enslaved African labor became a model for slave-labor-based economies in the Americas.