Vocab
Exchange (goods or services) for other goods or services without using money.
Barter
These two items made Ghana one of the first great trading empires in Africa, and made them very wealthy.
Gold + Salt
Who typically stayed below deck on slave ships?
Male slaves
Africa, Europe, and Asia used which ocean to connect trade routes in ancient Africa?
Indian Ocean
Man who dedicated his life to abolish the African slave trade?
William Wilberforce
An area of high and mostly flat lands.
Plateau
Traders who passed through Ghana had no choice but to do what?
Pay taxes to the King
Who typically stayed above deck on slave ships?
Crew, women, children.
Which desert was known for traveling amongst early trade routes.
Sahara Desert
What was Pitts political position?
Prime Minister
Trading goods and services with people for other goods and services or for money. When people exchange voluntarily, they expect to be better off as a result.
Trade
Which African kingdom broke away from Mali to create their own state.
Songhai
On average, how many Africans survived their voyages? (answer in a fraction in the simplest form)
1/5
Goods were originally carried across the Sahara Desert with donkeys and horses before which animal?
Camels
The name of the former slave that was brought to dinner at Wilberforce's house.
Equiano
Sailboat using wind catching triangular sails.
Dhow
Which water source did Songhai decide to relocate next to?
Niger River
From Africa which continent was the first recorded slave trade headed for?
Europe
Is a systematic approach to estimating the strengths and weaknesses of alternatives used to determine options which provide the best approach to achieving benefits while preserving savings. (weighing options based on your situation)
Cost benefit analysis
What was the name of the ship that Wilberforce brought Parliament to that reeked of death?
"Remember that smell, remember the ___________, remember that men were created equal."
The Madagascar
An amount of something left over when requirements have been met; an excess of production or supply over demand.
Surplus
Invaders from the north disrupted Ghana’s trade, as Ghana weakened Mali took the new empire. What did Mali control that made them so powerful?
Gold + salt
Name one of the two diseases or illnesses that someone was most likely to get when traveling on a slave ship.
Epidemics of fever, or smallpox
Why was the Camel crucial in the development of changing how goods were traded?
Long distances without water or food
Who was Wilberforce receiving letters from that was making Pitt uneasy?
Thomas Jefferson