Africa and Africans in the Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Chapter 20

Part I: The Atlantic Slave Trade

The Portuguese in Africa

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  Established _________________________
  

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  ________________- gold trade- most important
  
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  Not powerful enough to _______________________ on Africans
  
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  Most forts were established only after _____________________ of local leaders
  

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  Portuguese traded for: __________________________________________________
  
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  _____________= basis for contact between Africans and Portuguese
  
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  _____________________________ went to Benin, Kongo, and other places
  

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  Kongo= King _____________________________ converts his entire kingdom
  
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  _____________________ of his subjects  ________________ on Portuguese
  

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  Africans viewed Portuguese as _____________ but _____________________ them into their world
  
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  _____________ saw Africans as savages who could be ________________________
  

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  Colonies ______________, but with lots of _________________ work
  
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  By ________________, Dutch, French, English and others begin to get involved
  
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  By 1600, ________________________________________ all commerce
  

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  Between 1450 and 1750, ___________________ Africans transported across Atlantic
  

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  10-20% ______________________________
  
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  10-11 _______________ survived passage
  
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  Rate of transport _____________________________ over time
  
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  ____________transported between ___________ and ___________
  

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  High volume necessary due to _____________________ and ___________________
  
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  Rates of trade reflect changing __________________________________ situation in the New World
  
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  Slave trade with __________________________ continues
  

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  ___________________________ transported between 1450 and 1750
  

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  Wars increase in Africa as both ____________________________ of slave trade
  

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  Trade with ___________________ tended to focus on _________________________
  
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  ____________________ slave trade tended to focus on _________________
  
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  African population _____________________ of what it would have been without slave trade by 1750
  

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  _________________controlled up until 1630
  
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  ____________ seized control of ________________ in 1637, became major competitors
  
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  1660 English charter ________________________ to engage in slave trade
  
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  ________________________, _________________ becomes a major trader
  
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  Both ___________________________ involved in slave trade
  
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  Not any more __________________ than any other trade of its time
  
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  Part of _______________________
  
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  Drew African economy into ______________________
  
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  Resulted in African economies becoming _________________________ with Europe