<p>The World Shrinks, Early Modern Era 1450-1750: Africa/Africans in the Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade</p><p>Name______</p><p>AP World History Ch 20 Reading Study Guide </p><p>1. How might the adventuresome life of Baquaqua off us some insight to the tumultuous world of the 18th & 19 Century Atlantic Economy?</p><p>2. When did the Portuguese establish their fortress at El Mina?</p><p>3. When did the English first become involved in the Atlantic Slave Trade?</p><p>4. When did the Dutch establish their colony at the Cape of Good Hope?</p><p>5. When did the British take control of it?</p><p>6. How and why did Europeans become involved in the affairs and history of Africa?</p><p>7. What was the MAJOR impact of European contact?</p><p>8. How did the Portuguese us their forts along the west coast of Africa?</p><p>9. Which kingdom did the Portuguese attempt to “Europeanize”?</p><p>10. What was the Portuguese attitude toward Africans?</p><p>11. How did the Portuguese (and later Europeans) acquire MOST of their slaves in Africa?</p><p>12. What new agricultural product required a large number of laborers (slaves)?</p><p>13. How many Africans we forcibly shipped across the Atlantic between 1450 & 1850? What was the mortality rate?</p><p>14. Where did the slave population grow through reproduction NOT merely through additional shipments? Why?</p><p>15. According to Table 20.2; What area received the largest number of slaves? Where does British North America (USA) rank?</p><p>16. How did the older Trans-Saharan Salve Trade differ from the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade?</p><p>Read “In Depth: Slavery and Human Society”</p><p>17. In what ways had slavery ALWAYS been part of human civilization?</p><p>18. How did Trans-Atlantic Slavery lead to increased racism?</p><p>19. What European ideas lead toward and abolition of slavery?</p><p>1 The World Shrinks, Early Modern Era 1450-1750: Africa/Africans in the Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade</p><p>20. What was the purpose of the Royal African Company?</p><p>21. Why does Stearns call Africa a “graveyard” for Europeans?</p><p>22. Which two European cities specifically benefitted economically from the slave trade?</p><p>22. Describe “Triangular Trade” – Is this inexorably linked to capitalistic development? Discussion Topic</p><p>23. Describe the different forms of African slavery BEFORE European involvement.</p><p>24. Why was the enslavement of women an important feature or pre-European slavery?</p><p>25. How did Europeans fit themselves into existing trading patterns in Africa?</p><p>26. How did the slave trade and the introduction of European goods/weaponry affect African politics?</p><p>27. How was the Asante (Ashante) kingdom formed?</p><p>28. Though the kingdom of Benin engaged in some slave trade, what were their principal products?</p><p>29. Describe the rise and influence of the Kingdom of Dahomey.</p><p>30. How did African Art find its way into European ‘high society’?</p><p>31. How did some Indian, Swahili & Arab merchants follow the European “example” in E. Africa?</p><p>32. How did the Fulani tribe seek to reform ‘corrupt’ Islamic kings?</p><p>33. What was the outcome?</p><p>34. When and why did the Dutch East India Company establish a colony at the Cape of Good Hope?</p><p>2 The World Shrinks, Early Modern Era 1450-1750: Africa/Africans in the Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade</p><p>35. How did this lead to white settlement and expansion in southern Africa?</p><p>36. Who were the Afrikaners?</p><p>37. When did the British seize Cape Colony?</p><p>38. How did this seizure lead to the Great Trek?</p><p>39. Describe the activities and impacts of Shaka Zulu.</p><p>40. What was the outcome of the Zulu Wars of the 1870s?</p><p>Read “Document: An African’s Description of the Middle Passage” & be prepared to discuss in class.</p><p>41. What new caste-type system developed in the New World as a result of African slavery?</p><p>42. How did African culture survive in the New World?</p><p>43. What African cultures persisted in Brazil? Jamaica? Haiti?</p><p>44. How did religion play a role in African slave life?</p><p>45. What were Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s & Adam Smith’s views on slavery?</p><p>46. Which religious figures were heavily involved in the slavery abolition effort in the British Empire?</p><p>47. When did slavery finally end in the New World?</p><p>3 The World Shrinks, Early Modern Era 1450-1750: Africa/Africans in the Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade</p><p>KEY TERMS CHAPTER 21 factories: trading stations with resident merchants established by the Portuguese and other Europeans. l Mina: important Portuguese factory on the coast of modern Ghana. lançados: Afro-Portuguese traders who joined the economies of the African interior with coastal centers.</p><p>Nzinga Mvemba: ruler of the Kongo kingdom (1507-1543); converted to Christianity and was renamed Afonso I; his efforts to integrate Portuguese and African ways foundered because of the slave trade.</p><p>Luanda: Portuguese settlement founded in the 1520s; became the core for the colony of Angola.</p><p>Royal African Company: chartered in Britain in the 1660s to establish a monopoly over the African trade; supplied slaves to British New World colonies.</p><p>Indies piece: a unit in the complex exchange system of the West African trade; based on the value of an adult male slave. triangular trade: complex commercial pattern linking Africa, the Americas, and Europe; slaves from Africa went to the New World; American agricultural products went to Europe; European goods went to Africa.</p><p>Asante: Akan state the Gold Coast (now Ghana) among the Akan people and centered at Kumasi.asantehene: title, created by Osei Tutu, of the civil and religious ruler of Asante.</p><p>Benin: African kingdom in the Bight of Benin; at the height of its power when Europeans arrived; active slave trading state; famous for if bronze casting techniques.</p><p>Dahomey: African state among the Fon or Aja peoples; developed in the 17th century centered at Abomey; became a major slave trading state through utilization of Western firearms.. </p><p>Usuman Dan Fodio: Muslim Fulani leader who launched a great religious movement among the Hausa..</p><p>Great Trek: movement inland during the 1830s of Dutch-ancestry settlers in South Africa seeking to escape their British colonial government.</p><p>Shaka: ruler among the Nguni peoples of southeast Africa during the early 19th century; developed military tactics that created the Zulu state.</p><p>Mfecane: wars among Africans in southern Africa during the early 19th century; caused migrations and alterations in African political organization.</p><p>Swazi and Lesotho: African states formed peoples reacting to the stresses of the Mfecane.</p><p>Middle Passage: slave voyage from Africa to the Americas; a deadly and traumatic experience. candomble: African religious practices in Brazil among the Yoruba. | vodun: African religious practices among descendants in Haiti.</p><p>Palmares: Angolan-led large runaway slave state in 17th-century Brazil.</p><p>Surinam Maroons: descendants of 18th century runaway slaves who found permanent refuge in the rainforests of Surinam and French Guiana.</p><p>William Wilberforce: British reformer who led the abolitionist movement that ended the British slave trade in 1807.</p><p>4 The World Shrinks, Early Modern Era 1450-1750: Africa/Africans in the Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade</p><p>5</p>