1300's two____________ clans join together to form what became the kingdom called ____________
What is Bantu, Kongo
100
1500's Portugal begins settling the island of ____ _____, 250 miles of the Congo Coast
What is Sao Tome
100
1526 Affonso writes a ____ to King John pleading for mercy from the Portuguese traders. King John ________
What is letter, did nothing about it.
200
Askia The Great
What is Leader of rebellion group
200
gold, salt, ivory, silks, spices
What is trade
200
1400's Congo's King Mani-Congo ruled 6 provinces and ___
million people
What is 2
200
1500's the Portuguese require ___________ for their sugar plantations in Sao Tome
What is slaves
200
1540 King Affonso decides to __________ the slave trade so that he may increase his own _____________
What is support, power and wealth
300
Tunka Manin, Sundiata, Mansa Nusa, Sunni Ali, Askia the Great
Who are the 5 leaders
300
1490 Portuguese traders developed a prosperous and _____ relationship with the Congo people
What is friendly
300
straw huts,
millet & sorghum,
bananas, coconuts, dates, citrus, fruits, bread, meat,
sea salt, iron copper, ivory, raffia fiber made from palm leaves
What is Daily life in Congo: lived in, farmed, ate, traded
300
Destroyed Congo's prosperous _______ of salt, iron, copper, ivory, and raffia and replaced it with trade______
What is trade, in human beings.
400
Ghana, Mali, Songhai
What is 3 empires
400
desert, rainforest, sahel, savannah
What is geography
400
1482 Captain _______ discovers the Congo Kingdom
What is Diego Cao
400
war prisoners, didn't mistreat them, didn't separate them, earned freedom.
war prisoners, anyone can buy, treated them like beasts, separated them, worked until died.
What is different beliefs on slavery between Africa and Europe
400
Congo _________
________________
What is didn't have gold,
so Congo traded slaves instead of gold.
500
sculpture's, masks, cloth-kente, music, dance
What is Arts
500
griots - storyteller, proverbs, oral history, dansi-history of Ghana, sundiata - history of Mali
What is folktales
500
1490 Mani-Congo converts to Christianity and even sent his son to a missionary school. Later, his son became king and was baptized with the Christian name of _______
What is Affonso I
500
1500's slavery soon becomes a profitable business, as the new Portuguese colony in the South America, ___________, needed slaves as well.
What is Brazil
500
war, sell prisoners as slaves,
offer slaves to the Portuguese
encourage them to rebel