African Kingdoms
True or False: African Kingdoms never traded with each other
False
True or False: Islam spread through both military invasion and trade routes
True
True or False: Most Europeans bought African slaves from Kingdoms and other local leaders
True
Definition of a primary source
someone documenting something they actually saw happen.
How many people from Africa were enslaved?
10-12.5 million people
True or False: African Kingdoms all spoke the same language
False
Three of the most common commodities traded along this route.
Gold, salt, and slaves.
What was the most valuable thing that African Kingdoms could sell to Europe?
Slaves.
A raw material used to make consumer products, such as food, furniture, gasoline, and more.
What is a commodity?
The main cash crops shipped from the Americas to Europe.
What are sugar, tobacco, and cotton?
What European slave traders gave the African Kingdoms for war.
What are Guns.
This innovation and animal enabled people to traverse the Sahara Desert safely and carry large amounts of cargo.
What are caravans and camels?
The way slavery affected the African Kingdoms
what is Kingdoms were turned against each other to try to capture as many people as possible to enslave
To use someone or something for one's own advantage.
What is exploit?
Europeans traded these to African Kingdoms for slaves.
What are manufactured good, textiles, rum and guns?
The part of Africa that was influenced by Islam the most
The place where Muslims must go on a pilgrimage to at least once in their lives
What is Mecca
The part of the world where most enslaved African people taken
What is Brazil/ South and Central America
Worthy of, or causing disgust or hatred. Extremely awful.
What is abominable?
The five main Europe nations involved in the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
What are the Dutch, England, France, Portugal, and Spain?
The older civilizations that the African Kingdoms replaced
what is Bronze Age Civilizations: Egypt, Mesopotamia, etc.
The European Country where Muslim Architecture is most prominent
What is Spain
the way African populations were affected by slavery
What is severe imbalance in population because of so many males being taken. Not enough people to do work.
The dispersion or spread of a people from their original homeland.
What is diaspora?
The deadliest part of the journey for someone who was enslaved
What is the Middle Passage?