Ap 3 Ch21 Africa In The Age Of Slave Trade_Scripted

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Chapter 21: Africa and the Africans in the age of the Atlantic Slave Trade
SCRIPTED: Social

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- Many people were lost to slave trade and diseases such as Malaria.
fewer than 10% of people who went to Africa ever returned to England.
- Atlantic slave trade drew slaves from across the continent, the majority from the Senegambia region in the 16th cent. but the majority later became from West Central Africa.

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Chapter 21: Africa and the Africans in the age of the Atlantic Slave Trade
SCRIPTED: Culture

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-slave-trading
-among the slaves, slaveholders created a hierarchy based on origin and color much like the Americas.
-slaves made up more than 80% of the population in Jamaica and St.Domingue
-slaves made up 35% of Pop. in Brazil, and another 1/3 of the pop. was made up of free people of color.
-influenced by the west(newest impact) and Islam.
-African culture transferred, new cultural forms.
-crafts such as bronze casting, wood carving, and weaving flourished.

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Chapter 21: Africa and the Africans in the age of the Atlantic Slave Trade
SCRIPTED: Religion

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-Islam consolidated in East Africa and the Sudan
- Christianity was in ethiopia
-Islam was very important
religious symbolism was seen in their art.

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Chapter 21: Africa and the Africans in the age of the Atlantic Slave Trade
SCRIPTED: Interaction

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-Atlantic-slave trade
-trade to the interior brought ivory, gold, and a steady supply of trade.
-trade very important.
-forced migration caused the exchange of food, diseases, animals, and ideas that marked the era and had a profound influence on indigenous people of various regions.

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Chapter 21: Africa and the Africans in the age of the Atlantic Slave Trade
SCRIPTED: Politics

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- growth of large kingdoms
-expanding international commerce
-increasing centralization and hierarchy could be seen in the enslaving African societies, a contrary trend of self-sufficiency and anti-authoritarian ideas developed among the peoples who bore the brunt of the slaving attacks.
-centralized states
-British slave ttade abolished in 1807

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Chapter 21: Africa and the Africans in the age of the Atlantic Slave Trade
SCRIPTED: Technology

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- spread of iron tools
-cannons
-sugars

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Chapter 21: Africa and the Africans in the age of the Atlantic Slave Trade
SCRIPTED: Economy

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-Atlantic slave trade brought in new crops of Maize and Manioc.
-improved agriculture came as a result of population expansion.
-forts and trading posts were established by the Portuguese along the coast of West Africa.
-El Mina: in the heart of the gold producing region of the forest zone.
-expanding international commerce
-gold:El Mina
-access to European goods like firearms, iron, horses, cloth, tobacco and other goods.
-Brazil:very diverse economy
-Western-dominated world economy
-sugar production in the Caribbeans.

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Chapter 21: Africa and the Africans in the age of the Atlantic Slave Trade
SCRIPTED: Demography

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-Atlantic trade had a demographic impact on at least certain parts of the west and central Africa.
-1st impact: slave trade cut the pop. in half in 1850. The pop. was 25 million and it had potential to be at about 50 million.
-2nd impact: trans-Atlantic slave trade carried more men then women and more women then children, but this swelled the number of enslaved people.
-3rd impact: New crops, such as maize and manioc,were introduced providing new food sources for the pop. and helped recover from the losses to slave trade.