Unit 5 - Chapter 21
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 factories | trading stations with resident merchants established by the Portuguese and other Europeans. |
| 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. |
| asantehene | title, created by Osei Tutu, of the civil and religious ruler of Asante. |
| Great Trek | movement inland during the 1830s of Dutch-ancestry settlers in South Africa seeking to escape their British colonial government. |
| Shaka | ruler among the Nguni peoples of southeast Africa during the early 19th century; developed military tactics that created the Zulu state. |
| Middle Passage | slave voyage from Africa to the Americas; a deadly and traumatic experience. |
| obeah | African religious practices in the British American islands. |
| Surinam Maroons | descendants of 18th century runaway slaves who found permanent refuge in the rainforests of Surinam and French Guiana. |
| William Wilberforce | British reformer who led the abolitionist movement that ended the British slave trade in 1807. |
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