History 2322 - CH.19
Although the precise number of Africans transported to the Americas in the slave trade is difficult to determine, nearly half of the total were sent to ________.
Brazil
The kings of Kongo demonstrated their absorption of Portuguese culture by
Sending members of the ruling family to Portugal for their education
In the Kongolese belief system, Portuguese Catholicism was
Adapted to the indigenous African spiritual and cultural heritage
Recent scholarship suggests that a key formative element in the development of culture and identity of Africans in the Americas lay in the influence of the
Central African Creoles from Kongo and Ndongo
Portuguese mariners initially sailed up the Congo River in the 1480s in hopes of
Linking up with Prester John, who could help with the conquest of Jerusalem
A culturally Dutch settler society emerged in the Cape Colony of South Africa, which included
Protestants fleeing religious persecution in France and Germany.
The vast pine forest running from southern Virginia to northern Florida supplied material primarily for ____________.
Shipbuilding
The slaveowners' greatest fear was
That a slave revolt would begin and spread
The indigo plant, which _____________, contributed to a booming economy in South Carolina starting in the 1740s.
Was processed into a dye
In contrast to their counterparts in West Africa, the Fur and Funj federations between Lake Chad and the Nile ____________
Were fully converted to Islam, from the royal clans down to the commoners.