Vocabulary
a moveable or immovable piece of property
what is chattel?
Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland, South Africa
What are the regions of Southern Africa?
Key commercial centers in Mansa Musa's empire
What are Niani, Timbuktu, and Gao?
denial of responsibility
what is disavowal?
A region that was the cornerstone of the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade
what is Western Africa?
Oral sources included African poems, praise songs, and accounts of past events usually passed on through official oral historians
What are Griots?
study of the writing of history
what is historiography?
Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Sudan
what are the regions of North Africa?
born, El Hasan ben Muhammed el-Wazzan-ez-Zayyati in the city of Granada in 1485. Their accounts provide some of the earliest slave accounts
Who was Leo Africanus?
fleeting, temporary, disappearing
what is ephemeral?
A region critical in the expansion of the Ottoman Empire during the Indian Ocean Slave Trade
What is Eastern Africa?
from 1307-1337 this person's reign expanded one of the largest empires after Ancient Ghana
Who was Mansa Musa?
a repository of fragments, documentation, information preserved for long-term use, study and education
What is an archive?
Chad, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Angola, São Tomé and Principe, Equatorial Guinea
What is Central Africa?
During the Transatlantic trade, The ____and ______ account for seven out of every ten slaving voyages and carried nearly three quarters of all people embarking from Africa trafficked for slavery
who are the British and Portuguese?