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

300 Points

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

300 Points

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