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Why was disease the leading cause of death of enslaved Africans on the Middle Passage?

The floating coffins were very crammed, and people were not immune to the diseases, so disease was fatal/

How did the Atlantic slave trade affect the Asante kingdom and the Oyo empire?

They formed triangular trade, which greatly impacted the way the Asante and Oyo people.

monopoly

A market in which there are many buyers but only one seller.

missionaries

A person sent on a religious mission. Mostly Christian missionaries sent to countries where the U.S. was trying to achieve influence.

triangular trade

A three way system of trade during 1600-1800s Africa sent slaves to America, America sent Raw Materials to Europe, and Europe sent Guns and Rum to Africa

middle passage

A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies

Olaudah Equiano

An antislavery activist who wrote a famous account of his enslavement.

How did the three steps of the triangular trade network function?

Slaves, sugar cane, tobacco are the three items that kept the network functioning.

Summarize Write a short summary explaining how the Atlantic slave trade impacted West Africa and the Americas.

Slaves, sugar cane, tobacco contributed to the economic revolution.

How was the African slave trade before European involvement different from the African slave trade after European involvement?

The GD also set in motion another process: the forced migration of millions of African men and women across the Atlantic, because in order to keep the mines, plantations, and haciendas producing for the European market, European mine and estate owners had to find more labor.

Afonso I

The King of Kongo whose rule began in 1506 and who was influenced by the Portuguese.

Oyo empire

arose from successive waves of settlement be the Yoruba people of present day nigeria grew because of slave trade profits

Osei Tutu

important ruler who began centralization and expansion of Asante.

Asante kingdom

kingdom that emerged in the 1700s in present-day Ghana and was active in the slave trade

plantations

large farms that usually specialized in the growing of one type of crop for a profit

mutinies

revolts by captives


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