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Question: These people were the first wave of Africans brought to Spain and Portugal They learned European languages and worked. Alternately they were sent by their parents to learn more about European culture.Answer: Atlantic Creoles

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Question: As soldiers returned to Europe from the Middle East, they brought back spices and ________ which changed international relations forever.

Answer: sugar

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Question: Captive Africans were brought out of the interior of Africa in groups called

Answer: coffles

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Question: __________ was a method of stowing people aboard slave ships that brought the highest number of people aboard without regard to human safety.

Answer: Tight packing

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Question: Captive Africans were stored in ___________, carved into stone below slave castles.

Answer: dungeons

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Question: These ships carried captive Africans from the Old World to the New World.

Answer: slavers

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Question: Captive Africans were taken from the interior of Africa by

Answer: other Africans

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Question: The word slave comes from sklavos the medieval Latin word for

Answer: Slav/Slavic

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Question: Before discovery of the New World, sugar was grown on this island of the Mediterranean.

Answer: Sicily and/or Cyprus

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Question: European slavers carried on a __________ that began with the transport of European goods to the African continent for people, to the New World for raw goods and raw goods back to Europe.

Answer: Triangle Trade

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Question: Once captive Africans had arrived at slave castles, as they waited to be inspected by Europeans traders, they were held in __________ or temporary barracks.

Answer: barracoons

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Question: Captive Africans between the ages of __________ were most popular for enslavement.

Answer: 10-25

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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 __________ were a series of wars fought over 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 formerly enslaved man and later, abolitionist, wrote his autobiography detailing the horrors of the Middle Passage.

Answer: Olaudah Equiano

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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 the Spanish and Portuguese removing Almoravids from the Iberian peninsula.

Answer: Reconquista

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Question: Sugar cultivation had its 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: This sail was paired with a new style of Portuguese ship that made navigation and Atlantic travel easier.

Answer: lateen sail

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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 and were taught to do their tasks.

Answer: seasoning

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Question: This mechanism used by ships crews opened a captive Africans mouth wide enough for food to be forced down his/her throat

Answer: speculum oris

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Question: The patron saint of Germany is ___________, a Christian African leader of medieval religious wars.Answer: Saint Maurice

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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: Sugar and tobacco are two examples of __________, crops that were grown on plantations to maximize the amount of money the landowner will receive.

Answer: cash crops

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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: This Portuguese New World colony was dominated by sugar plantations by the sixteenth century and produced an enormous demand for enslaved labor.Answer: Brazil,

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