Life in West Africa
What type of land mostly covers West Africa?
What is grassland or rainforest?
What country began trading goods in exchange for enslaved people in the 1400s?
What is Portugal?
What was the first part of the triangular trade?
What is Europeans trading goods for enslaved people?
What was life like for enslaved people on the ships during the Middle Passage?
What is they had little movement and were chained together?
What did some enslaved people do to cope with their harsh lives?
What is attempt to escape or resist in various ways?
What were the main occupations of people in West Africa during the 1500s?
What are farming, mining, crafts, and trading?
What did European traders offer in exchange for enslaved people?
What are guns, cloth, rum, and salt?
What was the Middle Passage?
What is the journey across the Atlantic Ocean for enslaved people?
What horrible conditions did enslaved people face during their journey?
What are heat, smell, and overcrowding?
What was one way enslaved people resisted their owners’ orders?
What is pretending not to understand or faking illness?
How did West Africans honor their ancestors?
What is through dancing and singing?
What false beliefs did many Europeans hold about Black Africans?
What is that they were inferior and not fully human?
How long did the Middle Passage usually take?
What is between 21 to 90 days?
What did some enslaved people do to avoid their fate?
What is refuse to eat or jump overboard?
What happened to most runaway enslaved people?
What is they were eventually caught?
Name one city in West Africa that was important in history.
What is Timbuktu?
How did some West Africans capture people to sell to traders?
What is by waging war or raiding villages?
Approximately how many Africans are estimated to have made the Middle Passage?
What is 10 to 12 million?
How did the crew force enslaved people to eat?
What is through brutal methods, including whipping?
How did the life of an enslaved person differ when working in a house?
What is they had slightly better conditions and sometimes earned wages?
What is one reason why people from different villages in West Africa may not have understood each other?
What is they spoke different languages?
What were some West Africans’ opinions about the trade of people?
What is that some thought it was bad while others wanted the riches?
What did traders do in the third part of the triangular trade?
What is take American goods back to Europe and trade them for more enslaved people?
What did Olaudah Equiano fear would happen to him?
What is that he would be eaten by the White men?
What did very few enslaved people achieve regarding their freedom?
What is saving enough money to buy their freedom?