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.