African States
Ashanti, Oyo, and Benin are known as this type of state because they grew powerful by capturing people and selling them to Europeans.
What are slave-raiding states?
Escaped enslaved people formed independent communities known by this name.
What are Maroon societies?
This Ming admiral led huge treasure fleets across the Indian Ocean in the early 1400s.
Who is Zheng He?
In 1603 Tokugawa Ieyasu became this military ruler of Japan.
What is shogun?
This was the name for the forced voyage that carried enslaved Africans across the Atlantic.
What is the Middle Passage?
African states traded captives to Europeans for these, which they used to conquer more neighbors.
What are guns?
In 1680 the Pueblo people drove the Spanish out of this present-day U.S. state.
What is New Mexico?
After the Red Turban Rebellion, this peasant-born leader became Emperor Hongwu and founded the Ming Dynasty in 1368.
Who is Zhu Yuanzhang (Hongwu)?
The Tokugawa shoguns ruled from this city, now called Tokyo.
What is Edo?
In this system, people were treated as property and were owned for life.
What is slavery?
These new states grew rich from trade with Europeans along this coast.
What is the Atlantic coast (West African coast)?
This maroon society in Brazil survived for much of the 1600s despite repeated attacks by the Portuguese.
What is Palmares?
Under the Ming, neighboring states showed respect for China by sending gifts in exchange for trading privileges, in this system.
What is the tribute system?
The shoguns forced these regional lords to spend every other year in Edo and leave their families there.
Who are the daimyo?
Because so many men were captured, this group in West Africa took on more of the farming and trading.
Who are women?
King Afonso I ruled this kingdom in west-central Africa and wrote to Portugal’s king complaining that slave traders were kidnapping his people.
What is Kongo?
Forced labor in the mines, heavy taxes, and abuse by Spanish officials led to this 1780s rebellion in Peru.
What is the Tupac Amaru rebellion?
This Ming tax reform combined many taxes into one payment made in silver.
What is the single-whip tax?
This policy limited Japan’s contact with most foreign nations.
What is the closed country policy?
Rulers and these go-between traders who sold captives to Europeans gained wealth and power.
Who are merchants (middlemen)?
This queen of Ndongo used both diplomacy and warfare, including alliances, to resist Portuguese slave traders.
Who is Queen Nzinga?
This term describes an uprising in which enslaved people rise up against their enslavers, often by force, to seek freedom.
What is a slave revolt?
In 1644 this people from northeast of China captured Beijing and founded the Qing Dynasty.
Who are the Manchu?
This European nation sent Jesuits to Japan.
What is Portugal?
Olaudah Equiano wrote about the Middle Passage in 1789 mainly to persuade readers to oppose this.
What is the slave trade?