Short Answer


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1 The most important of the Portuguese trade forts was __________ in the heart of the gold-producing region.
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2 Portuguese and Afro-Portuguese mulatto traders struck out into the African interior to establish trade contacts and collection points or __________.
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3 Christian missionaries achieved a major success in the Kongo where the ruler, __________, and the royal family were converted.
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4 The foundation of the trade fort at __________ south of Kongo became the basis for the Portuguese colony of Angola.
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5 The __________ was chartered to supply a source of slaves for the growing British colonies in Barbados, Jamaica, and Virginia.
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6 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.
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7 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.
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8 In the area called the Gold Coast by the Europeans, the empire of __________ rose to prominence in the period of the slave trade.
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9 The vigorous king __________ took the title of supreme civil and religious leader among the Asante.
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10 The kingdom of __________, which developed among the Fon or Aja peoples, emerged as a power in the seventeenth century from its center at Abomey.
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11 After the Nilotic migrations, the __________ established a ruling dynasty among the existing Bantu peoples at Bunyoro.
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12 In 1804 __________ preached reformist ideology in the Hausa kingdoms and precipitated a revolution against the Hausa kings.
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13 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.
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14 After 1834 the Boers staged a __________ far to the north to be free of government interference.
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15 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.
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16 The rise of the Zulu and other Nguni chiefdoms was the beginning of the __________, or wars of crushing and wandering.
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17 New African states like the __________, which adapted aspects of the Zulu model emerged among the survivors of the Zulu migration.
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18 __________ successfully resisted the Zulu example by combining Sotho and Nguni speakers and defending itself against Nguni armies.
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19 The slave voyage to the Americas, the "__________" as it was called, was a traumatic experience for the slaves.
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20 Each American slave society recognized distinctions between African-born "__________" slaves who were invariably black and their American-born descendants, the "creole" slaves.
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21 In the English islands, __________ was the name given to African religious ideas.
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22 During the seventeenth century in Brazil, __________, an enormous runaway slave kingdom with numerous villages, resisted Portuguese and Dutch attempts to destroy it.
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23 Perhaps the most remarkable story of African American resistance is found in the forests of __________, a former Dutch plantation colony.
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24 Under the leadership of __________ an abolitionist movement gained strength in Britain against its opponents made up of merchants and the "West Indies interests."
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