| A | B |
|---|
| when the Atlantic slave trade began | 1500's |
| reason slave trade began | Spanish needed workers for sugar plantations |
| 2 types of plantations in the Americas that depended on slave labor | tobacco & sugar |
| source of African slaves | African rulers & traders seized captives & brought them to costal trading posts |
| 2 reasons the slave trade intensified so quickly | demand for workers in Americas & demand for luxury goods in Africa |
| what the colonies supplied in return for manufactured goods from England | rum, tobacco, cotton |
| name used to describe the interactive trade between Europe, Africa & the Americas | Triangular Trade |
| country that had the largest percentage of enslaved Africans (37%) | Brazil (Portuguese) |
| area with the largest percentage of enslaved Africans | Caribbean islands |
| percentage of enslaved Africans going to british North America | 4.5% |
| aetimated number of enslaved Africans sent to the Americas by the 1800's | 11 million |
| number of enslaved Africans who dies during the Middle Passage | 2 million |
| name for the sea route from Africa to the Americas | Middle Passage |
| result of slave trade on West Africa | many small states disappeared |
| reason some African states grew | they waged war on other African states to control slave trade |
| African tribe that migrated to southern Africa in the 1500's | Zulus |
| Zulu leader in the early 1800's | Shaka |
| effect of Shaka's wars between 1818 & 1828 | displaced groups from southern Africa migrate north, conquering other groups & creating powerful states |
| name for Dutch settlers in suthern Africa | Boers |
| groups which began fighting in the late 1830's | Zulus & Boers |
| result of the Boer wars | Zulus were eventually defeated by superior technology |
