chapter 20

What European nation first established direct contact with black Africa?

King Nzinga Mvemba of Kongo was noteworthy because he

Which of the following do not represent part of the Portuguese model for interaction with the Africans?

A. refusal to accept alliances with African rulers
B. widespread European colonization
C. predominance of military relations
D. a system of fortified trading stations and factories
E. a strong missionary effort

What was slavery like in Europe before 1450?

How did the Portuguese method of obtaining slaves change in the fifteenth century?

Aside from Brazil, the region of the New World that received the most slaves was

What was the demographic impact of the slave trade on Africa?

The British controlled their share of the Atlantic slave trade through the

What was the impact of the slave trade on Europeans sent to Africa?

Which of the following was not part of the system of "triangular trade"?

A. transport of plantation products to Europe
B. exportation of European manufactured goods to Africa D. shipment of slaves to the Americas
C. shipment of North American manufactured products to the Caribbean
E. All of the answers are correct

Where did most of the centralizing states of central and western Africa form in response to the Atlantic slave trade?

Which of the following was not a large African state that developed during the period of the Atlantic slave trade?

A. Dahomey
B. Benin
C. Asante
D. Ghana
E. Oyo

Under whose rule was unity achieved among the numerous Akan clans of Asante?

In what area of Africa was a plantation economy based on slave labor established?

The Sufi mystic responsible for initiating a religious reform movement among the Hausa kingdoms in 1804 was

In 1818 who assumed leadership in the Zulu chiefdom of the Nguni people of southern Africa?

The "Middle Passage" referred to

How were the British colonies of the southern Atlantic coast of North America different from the Latin American colonies?

The most important of the Portuguese trade forts was __________ in the heart of the gold-producing region.

Christian missionaries achieved a major success in the Kongo where the ruler, __________, and the royal family were converted.

The foundation of the trade fort at __________ south of Kongo became the basis for the Portuguese colony of Angola.

The __________ was chartered to supply a source of slaves for the growing British colonies in Barbados, Jamaica, and Virginia.

The Spanish developed a complicated system in which a healthy adult male slave was called an "__________," while children and women were valued at fractions of that value.

During some periods there did exist a __________ trade in which slaves were carried to the Americas, sugar and tobacco to Europe, and European products to the coast of Africa.

In the area called the Gold Coast by the Europeans, the empire of __________ rose to prominence in the period of the slave trade.

The vigorous king __________ took the title of supreme civil and religious leader among the Asante.

The kingdom of __________, which developed among the Fon or Aja peoples, emerged as a power in the seventeenth century from its center at Abomey.

In 1804 __________ preached reformist ideology in the Hausa kingdoms and precipitated a revolution against the Hausa kings.

A purifying Sufi variant of Islam had an intense impact on the __________ people, pastoralists who were spread across a broad area of the Western Sudan.

After 1834 the Boers staged a __________ far to the north to be free of government interference.

In 1818 leadership of the Nguni peoples fell to __________, a brilliant military tactician who reformed the loose forces into regiments organized by lineage and age.

The rise of the Zulu and other Nguni chiefdoms was the beginning of the __________, or wars of crushing and wandering.

New African states like the __________, which adapted aspects of the Zulu model emerged among the survivors of the Zulu migration.

__________ successfully resisted the Zulu example by combining Sotho and Nguni speakers and defending itself against Nguni armies.

The slave voyage to the Americas, the "__________" as it was called, was a traumatic experience for the slaves.

Each American slave society recognized distinctions between African-born "__________" slaves who were invariably black and their American-born descendants, the "creole" slaves.

In the English islands, __________ was the name given to African religious ideas.

During the seventeenth century in Brazil, __________, an enormous runaway slave kingdom with numerous villages, resisted Portuguese and Dutch attempts to destroy it.

Perhaps the most remarkable story of African American resistance is found in the forests of __________, a former Dutch plantation colony.

Under the leadership of __________ an abolitionist movement gained strength in Britain against its opponents made up of merchants and the "West Indies interests."