Triangular Trade
Origins of Slavery
Things Fall Apart
Transatlantic Slave Trade
Grammar
100

Ships would depart the Americas loaded with this and go to Europe.

What are raw materials?

100

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?

100

He is the main character of the book Things Fall Apart.

Who is Okonkwo?

100

Of the 12+ million slaves involved in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, this many were sent to the Americas.

What is 10-plus million?

100

The italicized text is a dependent or independent clause: No matter what it does, Manchester United can never become a consistent soccer team.

What is dependent?

200

Ships that would depart Africa would go to the Americas through this.

What is the Middle Passage?

200

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?

200

He is the author of Things Fall Apart.

Who is Chinua Achebe?

200

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?

200

Name the subject of the following sentence: Michael Carrick needs to fix the Manchester United defense to have any hope of winning another match this season.

Who is Michael Carrick?

300

Europeans would do this with the raw materials collected from the Americas.

What are finished products?

300

The oldest known written reference of slavery is found in this code of 1754 BC.

What is the Hammurabi Code?

300

In Chapter 2 of Things Fall Apart, Ikemefuna is sent to Okonkwo's tribe to avoid this between the two tribes.

What is war?

300

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?

300

Identify the noun in the PREDICATE of this sentence: The police caught the thief.

What is thief?

400

Europeans would do this with the raw materials garnered through the Triangle Trade.

What is make finished products? 

400

“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?

400

The best word to describe Okonkwo's father, Unoka, would be this.

What is lazy? 

400

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?

400

This type of noun is always capitalized.

What is a proper noun?

500

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?

500

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?

500

Okonkwo's fears this the most in his life.

What is the fear of failure?

500

Many plantations held 150 enslaved persons or more. Name the location.

What is the Caribbean? 
500

A topic sentence does this.

What is tell the reader what will be discussed in the paragraph?