African American Unit 1 Vocab

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Resources and trade made African kingdoms the richest.

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African trade

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Traded with the Roman Empire, Arabia, and India (ivory, gold, slaves for jewelry, silver lamps)

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Kush

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Small West African nation known for wealth through trade.

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Ghana

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Lavish spending on education made it a center for Islamic study.

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Mali

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Largest West African empire

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Songhai

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Access to fish, iron, salt, rubber; involved in farming and slave trade.

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Kongo

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Transfer of ideas, plants, animals, culture, and technology between the Americas and the Old World in the 15th-16th centuries.

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Columbian Exchange

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Established a school for navigation, mapmaking, and shipbuilding in 1420.

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Prince Henry the Navigator

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Profitable Trade: Mercantilism

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Mercantilism

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Explorer from Spain, landed in the Bahamas in 1492, sparking exploration.

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Christopher Columbus