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What is a plantation?
It is a farm on which one crop is grown on a large scale
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What is lineage?
It a line of common descent which formed the basis of life in rural West Africa.
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What is Timbuktu?
It was the hub of a well-establish trading network?
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What is the beginning of the African slave trade?
When they established a sugarcane plantation on the two islands of the West African coast requiring more manpower which provided a model for the Americas.
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What is oba?
It means "powerful ruler".
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What is a savannah?
It is a region of dry grassland.
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What is Kongo?
It is the powerful West Central African kingdom which arose on the lower Zaire River.
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What are Gao and Jenne?
The two cities which were busy commercial centers in Africa.
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In the 1400's what was West Africa?
It was the land of thriving trade, diverse cultures, and many rich and well-ordered states.
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What did Oba Ewuare's metal workers produced?
His metal workers produced stunning and sophisticated works of art such as bronze sculptures and plaques.
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What is Songhai?
It is a successful West African empire which controlled the Trans-Sahara trade.
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What is the Kente Cloth?
It is a symbol which African people of descent all over the world value.
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Who arrived in West Africa as traders in the 1470's.
The Portuguese traders.
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How did the West African rulers become enormously rich?
They taxed the traders for the goods that passed their realms.
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What were seen by the Portuguese sailors in Kongo?
They saw similarities of its system of government--a collection of provinces centralized under one strong king.
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What is Islam?
It is the religion brought by the North African traders.
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Who are the Bakongo?
It is what the people of Kongo.
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What is first significant consequence of the early contacts of the Portuguese traders with West Africa?
They bypassed the old trade routes and pulled the West African coast region closer with Europe.
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Who is Sunni Ali?
He is the first king of Songhai which was the largest West African empire in history.
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What was produced by the Bakongo people?
They mined iron ore and produced well-wrought tools and weapons.
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What is Benin?
It is the kingdom which dominated a larger region around the Niger delta in the 1400's.
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What is Nzambi Apungu?
It means "creator of all things" or Christian or Muslim belief in a supreme god.
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What is the second significant consequence of the early contacts of the Portuguese traders with West Africa?
The Portuguese began importing West African slaves.
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Who is Askia Muhammad?
He is the West African king which Timbuktu regained its position as an important education center which attracted scholars from all over the Islamic world.
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Who reminded of the Europeans of velvet?
The Kongo peoples' weaving of palm leaf threads.
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