AP WORLD HISTORY, AMSCO CHAPTER 17
Period 4: 1450 C.E to 1750 C.E Name: Period:
Africa in the Early Colonial Period, Pages 320-352 Absence Date: ______
1. What did King Afonso write about that he described as devastating?
2. What long term affect did the European transatlantic slave trade have on African Societies?
3. What caused Islam to expand in East Africa?
4. What caused the Songhay kingdom to prosper?
5. What was Sunni Ali's greatest accomplishment as king of Songhay?
6. Who is attributed to expanding Islam in West Africa?
7. How did he strengthen Islam?
8. Who financed the expansion of technology and exploration for the Portuguese?
9. How did African city-states grow wealthy off the Europeans?
10. How did Vasco da Gama interact with African trade cities in the Indian Ocean trade network?
11. What role did Africans have in Europeans obtaining slaves?
12. What were two factors to Europeans wanting slaves?
13. Why did European indentured servants not continue and expand like slavery?
14. What were the three legs of the Triangle Trade System?
15. What was the product that made the Portuguese so much money in Brazil?
16. What reaction did the African coastal cities have when they realized they could make money from slaves?
17. What was one of the results of the slave trade that king Afonso did not foresee?
18. What was the House of Slaves used for during the Triangle Trade System?
19. Why was the slave trade from Africa to the Americas called the Middle Passage?
20. How many of the slaves perished before reaching the Americas?
21. What happened to African languages once they reached the Americas?
22. What were the African languages known as?
23. In what way was religion syncretic towards Africans in Cuba, Haiti, and Brazil?
24. How much of the African Slaves practiced Islam?
25. What modern music systems have their roots in African culture?
26. How were Negro spirituals created?
27. What foods did African slaves bring to the Americas ?
28. What countries on the West coast of Africa were negatively affected the most by slavery?
29. How did slavery affect women in West African?
30. How did slavery affect intergroup warfare in West Africa?
31. What affect did the African slave trade have on European Imperialism in Africa?
32. How did the growth of the African population occur?
33. What role did enlightenment of France and England have on the slave trade?
34. What was the result of the Haitian slave revolt?
35. When did the slave trade on the East coast of Africa peak?
36. What was life like for an East African slave?
Plot the 3 stages of the Triangular Trade on the Map.
Time Line:
1400's C.EPortuguese Trading Ships Reach Kingdom of Kongo / 1480's
Songhay Empire is Expanding / 1498 C.E
Vasco da Gama Invades Swahili City States / 1534 C.E
First African Slaves Arrive in Brazil / 1542 C.E
Spanish Abolish Encomienda's in Americas encouraging Slavery from Africa / 1619 C.E
First African Laborers Arrive in Jamestown Virginia / 1700's C.E
Sugar and Rum Making People Rich in England, France and Netherlands / 1804 C.E
Slaves in Haiti Stage a Successful Revolt / 1839 C.E
Slaves take Control of the Spanish Slave Ship
Amistad / 18th & 19th
Century
Slavery in East Africa Peaks
Key Terms:
Polygyny
Vasco da Gama
Triangular Trade
Atlantic trade system
Middle Passage