JEOPARDY Africa and Atlantic Slave Trade Categories Africa

JEOPARDY Africa and Atlantic Slave Trade

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Who was Uthman Dan Fodio ? He was Muslim Fulani leader who launched a religious movement among the Hausa people.

What was Palmares? This was the large Angolan –led city state in Brazil that was formed by runaway slaves in the th 17 century.

What was the Middle Passage? This was the name given to the slave voyage from Africa to the Americas, a deadly and traumatic experience.

What was the Mfecane? These were the wars among Africans in southern th Africa during he 19 century that caused mass migrations and alterations in African political organization?

Who were the Dahomey? (Dahomey don’t play that) African state among the Fon or Aja peoples th developed in the 17 century and became a major slave trading state due to the use of western firearms.

What was the Great Trek? This was the massive migration of Boer settlers inland during the 1830 s to escape British colonial rule.

What was Luanda ? This was the Portuguese settlement founded in the 1520 s that became the core city of Portuguese Angola.

Who were the Lancados? These were the Afro-Portuguese traders who joined the economies of the African interior with the coastal centers.

What was El Mina? This was the important Portuguese factory or trading center on the coast of modern Ghana.

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What was the African Diaspora? This was another name for the forced migration of thousands of Africans from Africa throughout the world but mainly to the Americas as slave labor.

Who were the Fulani people? These were the pastoral people of the western Sudan the adopted the purifying Sufi variant of Islam and established a state centered at Sokoto.

What was Benin ( the Bight of Benin) ? This was the powerful African kingdom that was famous for its bronze casting techniques and became a major slave trading state.

Who were the Surinam Maroons ? th These were the descendants of the 18 century runaway slaves who found permanent refuge in the tropical rain forests of Northeast South America.

Who was Osei Tutu? He was the important leader of the Asante people who began their expansion and centralization of power.

What were saltwater slaves? This was the term sometimes applied to slaves transported from Africa, almost invariably black.

What was Afrikaner? This was another term for a Boer Settler.

What was an Indies Piece? A unit in the complex exchange system of the west African trade based on the value of an adult male slave.

What was Mozambique? This was the Portuguese colony along the east coast of Africa and the only country that has an AK 47 on their flag ( not a good sign).

What the Royal African Company? This was a British company chartered in 1660 to establish a monopoly over the slave trade among British merchants.

What was the annual yam festival ( Yam I am, the lost Dr. Seuus book) This was the festival where the power of the Asante King could be displayed for all to see.

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Who were the Luo people? These were the people who migrated from the upper Nile valley who established a dynasty among existing Bantu people in the lake district of eastern central Africa.

What was Swazi? This was the new African state formed on the model of the Zulu chiefdom and survived mfecane.

What was Lesotho? This was the southern African state that survived mfecane and focused on the Zulu model but less based on the military organization and less authoritarian.

What was sugar manufacturing? The largest number of slaves were sent to this industry between 1450 and 1750.

Who was Shaka Zulu ? He was the ruler of the Nguni peoples of southeast Africa and developed military tactics that created the powerful Zulu state.

Who was Nzinga Mvemba? He was the ruler of the Kongo kingdom and converted to Christianity and was renamed Alfonso I and tried to combine Portuguese and African cultures.

What was Obeah ? These were the African religious practices of the British American islands.

What were factories? These were the trading stations with resident merchants established by the Portuguese and other Europeans.

Who were the Voorterkkers? These people were the Boer farmers who migrated further into South Africa during the 1830 s and 1840 s. ( formed the Orange Free State and the Transvaal)

What was Vodun or Voodoo (Zombies on Parade)? These were the African religious practices observed by the descendants of the African slaves in Haiti.