Slide 1
100 Points
Question: As soldiers returned to Europe after war in the Middle East, they brought back ________ which changed international relations forever.
Answer: sugar
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Question: Dancing the slaves was a practice aboard slavers where depressed and traumatized people were forced to exercise to ward off what ships crews called _________.
Answer: fixed melancholy.100 Points
Question: __________ was a method of stowing people aboard slavers that forced the highest number of captive Africans aboard without regard to human safety.
Answer: Tight packing
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Question: Captive Africans were stored in ___________, carved into the stone below slave castles.
Answer: dungeons
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Question: After captive Africans were kidnapped they were walked in ___________, a group of other captive Africans to the Western Coast. .
Answer: coffles
200 Points
Question: Captive Africans were taken from the interior of Africa by
Answer: Africans
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Question: Before discovery of the New World, sugar was grown on this island of the Mediterranean.
Answer: Sicily/Cyprus
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Question: European slavers carried on a __________ that began with the transport of European goods to the African continent for captive Africans, and finally to the New World for raw goods.
Answer: Triangle Trade
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Question: This Portuguese prince pioneered New World and African exploration.
Answer: Prince Henry the Navigator200 Points
Question: These ships carried captive Africans between the Old World and the New World.
Answer: slavers
300 Points
Question: African leaders rented __________ to Portuguese as a marketplace to sell luxury goods like carved ivory, gold and salt.
Answer: factories
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Question: The __________ was a series of wars fought for control of Jerusalem by Christian and Muslim forces.
Answer: Crusades
Question: This portal exiting a slave castle was named _________ because no captive Africans who went through it came back.
Answer: The Door of No Return
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Question: Many people aboard slavers died of ___________ the early modern term for dysentery.
Answer: bloody flux
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Question: The captive Africans trip across the Atlantic was called
Answer: The Middle Passage
DAILY DOUBLE300 Points
Question: This former captive African, enslaved man and later, abolitionist, wrote his autobiography detailing the horrors of the Middle Passage.
Answer: Olaudah Equiano
400 Points
Question: Enslaved people sent to sugar plantations in the Mediterranean before the 1500s were from
Answer: Central and/or Eastern Europe
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Question: The ___________ was the process of Spanish and Portuguese removing Almoravids from the Iberian peninsula.
Answer: Reconquista
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Question: Sugar cultivation had its original origins in
Answer: Southwest Asia
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Question: Portugal pioneered navigation of the west coast of Africa by using ____________, small ships created based the Arab dhow.
Answer: caravels
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Question: The _______ Coast was the first place in continental Africa the Portuguese arrived.
Answer: Guinea400 Points
Question: Once captive Africans had arrived at slave castles, as they waited to be inspected by European traders, they were held in __________, or temporary barracks.
Answer: barracoons
500 Points
Question: Formerly a popular port city to disembark captive Africans, ___________ is called the Ellis Island of African Americans
Answer: Charleston, South Carolina
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Question: __________________ is the accepted number of captive Africans taken from Africa and brought to the New World over 450 years.Answer: Eleven million
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Question: The oldest slave castle on the western coast of Africa is a structure called ___________ or Portuguese for the mine.
Answer: Elmina (El Mina)
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Question: Profits from the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the sale of sugar and tobacco were invested in England and helped fund the __________ a, time of modernization and introduction of machines to English manufacturing.
Answer: Industrial Revolution
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Question: This mechanism used by ships crews opened a captive Africans mouth wide enough to force food down his or her throat. Answer: speculum oris
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Question: Captive Africans who arrived in the West Indies were subjected to a period of __________ where they learned basic English, received European names, were taught how to do their tasks.Answer: seasoning
Final Jeopardy
Question: Captive Africans brought to the British North American colonies were sold in a method where potential buyers rushed into a pen to purchase them called a _________.
Answer: scramble