Golden Empires
This West African empire, ruled by King Mansa Musa in the 14th century, became legendary for its immense wealth and its capital at Timbuktu.
What is Mali?
Before the rise of the Atlantic slave trade, merchants from these two Italian city-states dominated the Mediterranean slave markets, trading enslaved people from Eastern Europe, North Africa, and the Black Sea.
What are Venice and Genoa?
This Italian maritime republic used its powerful navy and strategic position on the Adriatic Sea to dominate Mediterranean trade and establish colonies like Crete and Cyprus.
What is Venice?
European traders often claimed that enslaving Africans was justified because it introduced this religion to non-Christian peoples.
What is Christianity?
A major expansion of the slave trade came in the wake of this Spanish explorer's second voyage to the New World in 1493.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Known as the “Land of Gold,” this earlier West African kingdom controlled the trade routes between the Niger and Senegal Rivers before Mali rose to power.
What is Ghana?
This prince offered gifts and made peace with African civilizations that previously attacked Portugal.
Who is Prince Henry or Henry the Navigator?
This city-state pioneered early forms of finance capitalism, funding crusades and overseas ventures with banking and credit networks that reached across Europe.
What is Genoa?
Verses from what book were sometimes used to justify slavery.
What is the Bible?
This Berber scholar claimed that race is irrelevant, and skin color is not a valid reason for enslavement.
Who is Ahmad Baba?
This empire succeeded Mali and reached its peak under the rule of Askia Muhammad, expanding trade and Islamic scholarship in cities like Gao and Timbuktu.
What is Songhai?
The practice of enslaving criminals or prisoners of war is called this.
What is domestic slavery?
Venice’s success in Mediterranean trade depended on its ability to combine military power with a business model backed by what.
What is the government?
This pope issued a papal bull to allow the Portuguese to "invade, search out, capture, and subjugate Muslims to reduce their persons to perpetual slavery".
Who is Pope Nicholas V
Lancarote de Freitas, a Portuguese tax collector, was knighted after he brought this back to Portugal instead of the gold he had been commissioned to find.
What is 235 Muslim Berbers who were then enslaved?
This ruler of the Mali Empire became famous across Africa and the Middle East for his lavish pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324, during which he reportedly gave away so much gold that he caused inflation in Cairo.
Who is Mansa Musa?
True or false: In internal (African) slave markets, women generally brought higher prices than men.
What is true
Venice and Genoa both practiced this form of early capitalism, in which state-backed merchants used military power to secure markets and control trade routes.
What is war capitalism?
Fernando Oliveira stated that slaves who converted to Christianity should be what if the goal was only to convert slaves.
What is freed?
This Portuguese prince sponsored voyages along Africa’s coast in the 1400s that helped establish the trade routes used in the transatlantic slave trade.
Who is Prince Henry or Henry the Navigator?
This was a major center for learning and the site of the first African university.
What is Timbuktu?
Of the 10.7 million Africans who landed in the New World to be sold as slaves, the majority were brought to these regions, not North America.
What are the Caribbean and Brazil?
By the 15th century, this Atlantic kingdom combined naval conquest, slave trading, and control of Indian Ocean routes to create one of the first global trading empires.
What is Portugal?
Portugal escorted slaves on their ships for this country that was forbidden to trade with Africa.
What is Spain?
This pope granted Portugal exclusive rights to trade and colonize along the Atlantic coast of Africa.
Who is Pope Nicholas V?