Chapter 9 Vocabulary
Chapters 1-4 Review
Triangular Trade
Chapters 5-8 Review
Vocabulary Review
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This refers to people that mostly descended from Europeans
What is white or whites?
100
This African Empire was also called the Jewel of Nubia.
What is Kush?
100
This is why the trade route used by European slave traders was referred to as triangular trade
What is the route the ships took was in the shape of a triangle?
100
This is what we call a scientist that studies African history
What is an Africologist?
100
This is the dirty work that people usually don't like to do-they would employ their slaves to do it.
What is labor?
200
This refers to people that mostly descended from Africans
What is black or blacks (or African American)?
200
This African Empire was the largest empire in Western Africa
What is Songhay?
200
These are the three main stops of the triangle trade route
What are Europe, Africa, and America?
200
Sailors from Portugal originally went to Africa to search for this precios metal, not slaves
What is gold?
200
This is when you take a person and make them less than human; it is the way that Africans were treated by slave traders
What is dehumanization?
300
This is an unfavorable opinion about a person or group of people that is usally not based on facts or truth
What is prejudice?
300
This is the largest river in Africa and one of the largest rivers in the world
What is the Nile?
300
This is the ocean that ships crossed in triangular trade
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
300
This European country was not the first country to start trading slaves, but it was the country that became the most wealthy from the slave trade.
What is Great Britain OR England?
300
This is another name for trading-you exchange goods and services for other goods and services.
What is barter or bartering?
400
This was a system that gave a farmer 50 acres of land for each slave that they brought to the colonies in America
What is headright?
400
This was one of the two resources that the Empire of Ghana was most known for-they also helped Ghana to become very wealthy.
What are salt OR gold?
400
This was the main cargo taken from AFRICA TO NORTH AMERICA in triangular trade
What were slaves?
400
This is the main reason tha Africans had to stop using their African languages and created Ebonics.
What is they would be beaten or punished if they used African languages?
400
This is another name for a paid soldier.
What is a mercenary?
500
This was an agreement in which 2 people entered into a contract. 1 person would become a servant to the other for a period of time (usually 7 years) and get paid an amount of money. At the end of the 7 years, the servant would be freed.
What are indentured servants?
500
This was the title that the Egyptian Empire used to refer to their kings.
What is Pharoah?
500
These were TWO items taken from NORTH AMERICA TO EUROPE in triangular trade
What were timber OR tobacco OR sugar OR rum OR fabric
500
What was the main way that enslaved Africans preserved or kept their African traditions?
What is they used music to help them preserve their African traditions?
500
This is a revolt, usually by soldiers or sailors against their leader, and always on a boat at sea. It happened a lot when slaves tried to revolt during the middle passage.
What is a mutiny?
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