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plantations
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large agricultural estates (big farms)
had at least 10,000 acres and could go up to 100,000 these were set-up on the coast of Brazil and the Caribbean for sugarcane in the 16th century African slaves were brought to replace the North Americans - who died of disease - on these farms also grew tobacco and cotton |
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Brazil
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place where plantations were set-up in the 16th century for sugarcane
south of the Caribbean Sea, west of the Atlantic Ocean, and east of Columbia |
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triangular trade
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connected Europe, Africa, and Asia at first, and then later added the Americas
Worked like this - European merchant ships carried European manufactured goods (guns/cloth) to Africa, which were traded for a cargo of slaves. The slaves were then shipped to the Americas and sold. European merchants then bought tobacco, molasses, sugar, and raw cotton, which were shipped back to Europe to be sold. = new world economy |
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Middle Passage
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the journey from Africa to the Americas made by slaves
middle part of the triangular trade route many slaves died on this journey and more died from disease when they arrived in the Americas |
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King Afonso
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Congo King in 1526
said "so great is the corruption that our country is being completely depopulated" concerned of the impact of the slave trade on the well-being of societies |
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Benin
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city in West Africa that was a brilliant and creative society in the 16th century when it was pulled into the slave trade
it's population decreased and warfare increased their people lost faith in the gods, art deteriorated, and human sacrifice became more common Europeans found a corrupt/brutal place in the 19th century when they came back |
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South Africa
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coast region where European influence reached
south of Botswana, southeast of the Indian Ocean, and southwest of the Atlantic |
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Mozambique
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northeast of South Africa, east of Zimbabwe, and south of Tanzamia
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Ibo
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society of eastern Nigeria based on independent villages
had active traders - the area produced more slaves than any other in the continent had small political states where authority rested in a single village leader |
