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Atlantic History
Atlantic History Midterm & Finals Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Chattel Slavery | Slaves are considered property can only be free when athey purchased themselves or when their master(s) allowed them to be |
| Ceuta | Spanish city known for its commercial importance in ivory, gold, and slaves |
| Cape Bojador | European explorers and traders used route to Africa and later to India |
| Cape of Good Hope | |
| Demographic Catastrophe | When a culture encounters a new and deadly disease |
| Virgin Soil Disease | |
| Tupi | Indigenous people of Brazil |
| Taino | Extinct people inhabiting the Greater Antilles and Bahamas |
| Atlantic History | |
| Caravel | A ship in 1500s-1700s was a small and fast ship owned by Portuguese or Spanish |
| Kongo Kingdom | African kingdom located in west central Africa |
| King Nzinga | Ruler of Kingdom of Kongo first half of the 16th century |
| Bartolome de Las Casas | Dominican friar recorded abuses of native people and first man to advocate for their rights |
| Timbuktu | City in Mali popular for it's trade in salt, gold, ivory, and slaves |
| Christopher Columbus | |
| Fort Navidad | Settlement that Christopher Columbus and his men established in present-day Haiti in 1492 |
| La Isabela (town) | First European settlement to be built in the New World |
| Mexica/Aztec Empire | Mesoamerican culture that flourished in central Mexico in the post-classic period from 1300 to 1521 |
| Hernán Cortés | Defeated the Aztec empire and claimed Mexico for Spain |
| Tenochtitlan | ( A.D. 1325 and 1521) built on an island on Lake Texcoco, it had a system of canals and causeways that supplied the hundreds of thousands of people who lived there |
| Inca Empire | 1400s built one of the largest, most tightly controlled empires the world has ever known |
| Cuzco | |
| Malinche | Nahua woman helped Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire acting as an interpreter |
| West Indies | The West Indies is a region of the NAO in the Caribbean including the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | Spain and Portugal to stop conflicts over lands discovered or explored by Christopher Columbus and other late 15th-century voyagers |
| Prince Henry | encouraged exploration in the early 15th century |
| Vasco da Gama | Journey commissioned by Portuguese king proved that the Atlantic and Indian oceans were connected |
| Gil Eanes | Portuguese navigator and explorer who was a captain of a ship that returned |
| Bartolomeu Dias | First European mariner to round the southern tip of Africa |
| Donatary Captains | |
| Elmina | A town in Ghana one of the most important stops on the route of the Atlantic slave trade |
| Trade-fort system/feitoria | Free-trade zone or transshipment point |
| Fortunate Isles | Islands were said to lie in the Western Ocean near the encircling River Oceanus; Madeira, the Canary Islands, the Azores, Cape Verde, Bermuda, and the Lesser Antilles |
| Songhai Empire | Askia Muhammad Islam ruler controlled gold and salt trade from the Mali Empire |
| Lançado | Person who was left in Africa to live for a period of time |
| Pedro Alvares Cabral | Portuguese navigator who discovered Brazil on a voyage to India |
| Middle Passage | Sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies |
| Cimarron/maroon | Africans who had escaped slavery in the Americas mixed indigenous peoples of the Americas, and formed independent settlements |
| Primary source | Information that was created at the time under study |
| Secondary Source | Written after the event happened |
| Lançarote de Freitas | Leader of two large Portuguese slaving raids on the West African coast in 1444-1446 |
| Inquisition | |
| Guanche | Native people of the of the Canary Islands |
| Disenclavement | Allows idea to disperse throughout various areas in the world allowing the "ending of isolation". Africa is an example |
| Iberia | Portugal and Spain |
| Bartolomeu Dias | First European mariner to round the southern tip of Africa discovering opening way for a sea route from Europe to Asia |
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