Triangle Trade
Ships would depart the Americas loaded with this and go to Europe.
What are raw materials?
Up to 30% of the total population was enslaved, mostly made up of conquered peoples used for sport, such as gladiator fights
What is Ancient Rome?
He is the main character of the book Things Fall Apart.
Who is Okonkwo?
Of the 12+ million slaves involved in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, this many were sent to the Americas.
What is 10-plus million?
The part of the population that traders would look to take west as part of the Triangular Trade.
What is mostly young men with some young?
The 13th Amendment ended this in the United States.
What is slavery?
Ships that would depart Africa would go to the Americas through this.
What is the Middle Passage?
Here was the world’s first true “slave society” - the majority of the economy was dependent on slave labor
A. Greece
B. Roman
C. Babylon
What is Ancient Greece?
He is the main character in Things Fall Apart.
Who is Okonkwo?
The discovery of efficient waterways through the desire to cut out middlemen in the Middle East eventually led to the closure of this as a major trade route.
What is the Silk Road?
Looking to gain more guns and ammunition, tribal leaders in Africa would begin to sell this part of the population to European traders.
This is what Amendment.
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
“nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
What is the 14th?
Slaves were bartered for these items in the Americas.
What are raw materials?
The oldest known written reference of slavery is found in this code of 1754 BC.
What is the Hammurabi Code
In Chapter 2 of Things Fall Apart, Ikemefuna is sent to Okonkwo's tribe to avoid this between the two tribes.
What is war?
Over the period of the Atlantic Slave Trade, from approximately 1526 to 1867, some 12.5 million slaves had been shipped from Africa, and 10.7 million had arrived here.
Where are the Americas?
Africans stay in a constant flux of____ between factions vying for control that continues today.
What is war?
This Amendment granted African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th?
Europeans would do this with the raw materials garnered through the Triangle Trade.
What is make finished products?
“War produced not only spoils such as gold but also people to take as slaves which eventually also became a form of _____ symbol. The more slaves you had, the wealthier and more influential you were.”
What is status?
The best word to describe Okonkwo's father, Unoka, would be this.
What is lazy?
This caused the ever-increasing demand for slaves in the New World.
What is the need for laborers to plant and harvest raw goods in warmer climates?
Name the country that recently signed a peace treaty with Rwanda.
What is the Congo?
His persistent efforts to end the slave trade in England finally came to fruition right before his death.
Who is William Wilberforce?
European ships would sail to Africa carrying iron products, clothing, trinkets and beads, guns, and ammunition that would be traded to purchase these three items.
What are slaves, gold, and spices?
Larger workforces needed to help with agriculture (food production) and other labor-intensive work created an ____ necessity among earlier civilizations, resulting in the taking and using of slave labor.
(Hint: The word starts with an "E.")
What is economic necessity?
Okonkwo's fears this the most in his life.
What is the fear of failure?
Many plantations held 150 enslaved persons or more. Name the location.
Name one way the slave trade hindered economic development in Africa.
What are diverted resources and labor towards slave production instead of productive activities, disrupting traditional economies and trade networks, and leading to a focus on the sale of human beings and reduced agricultural production and other industries?
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments are called this.
What are the Reconstruction Amendments?