Ghana, Mali, and Songhai
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
The Renaissance
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
100
A group of people and animals traveling together, usually for trade.

What is a caravan?

100

Another word for "renaissance."

What is "rebirth?"

100

The classification of a group of people according to ability or to economic, social, or professional standing.

What is hierarchy?

100

"I would love to revolt against the king with you, but I kind of like having a house and not having a knight's sword through my belly."

What is a serf?

200

The two primary resources that brought immense trade to Ghana and surrounding areas.

What is gold and salt?

200

The three entities that participated in the slave trade other than the U.S.

What is Brazil, the Caribbean, and South America?

200

The name of the new denomination that agreed with Martin Luther's interpretation of scripture.

What is Protestant?

200

A religious journey

What is a pilgrimage or hajj?

200

"Because you don't believe in what I believe in, you're a monster and a freak, and you're going to hell."

What is heretic?

300

A peninsula between Europe and Asia.

What is Constantinople?

300

The fractioning of enslaved Africans' heritage as a result of being taken and shipped away from home en masse to several different countries.

What is the African diaspora?

300

This event impacted Europe's job market after mass deaths created several job openings.

What is the bubonic plague?

300

A protection against disease, either natural or induced by vaccination.

What is immunity?

400

The civilization east of Ghana that was conquered by Mali, regained ownership of itself, but eventually lost it to Morocco in the 1500s.

Who are the Songhai?

400

The difference between chattel slavery and other forms of slavery.

What is chattel slavery was generational/permanent, and indentured servitude and other forms of slavery ended eventually?

400

A person who travels to attempt to spread Christianity to others.

What is a missionary?

500

The two countries that were primarily interested in trading in West Africa.

What is the Europeans and Asians?

500

Europeans' motivation to keep enslaved people during the Middle Passage from harming or killing themselves.

What is profit?

500

To punish, particularly because of beliefs or background. Catholics did this to Muslims during the Crusades.

What is persecute?