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Asiento contract: Spanish: “Negroes' contract”), between the early 16th and the mid-18th century, an agreement between the Spanish crown and a private person or another sovereign power by which the latter was granted a monopoly in supplying African slaves for the Spanish colonies in the Americas. The contractor (asentista) agreed to pay a certain amount of money to the crown for the monopoly. Mali empire: Trading empire that flourished in West Africa in the 13th–16th centuries. The Malinke inhabitants of Kangaba acted as middlemen in the gold trade. It eventually outgrew its political and military strength, and many of its subject areas revolted. By c. 1550 it had ceased to be an important political entity. Royal African Company: Bishop Bartolomeo de las Casas: Spanish historian and missionary, In 1510 he became the first priest ordained in the Americas. He devoted his life to protesting the mistreatment of the Indians, with whom he worked in Guatemala, Peru, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Mexico. His call for an end to the encomienda system aroused implacable opposition. His proposed and quickly regretted solution, the importation of slaves from Africa. Songhay: great trading state of West Africa (fl. 15th–16th century), centred on the middle reaches of the Niger River in what is now central Mali. Sack by morocco invansion. Hawkins, Sir John (1532-1595), English admiral and privateer, born in Plymouth. In 1562, 1564, and 1567 he carried cargoes of slaves from the West... University of Sankore: Timbuktu: Timbuktu was founded about AD 1100 as a seasonal camp Timbuktu's location at the meeting point of desert and water made it an ideal trading centre. In the late 13th or early 14th century it was incorporated into the Mali empire. Barraccoons: Middle passage: From about 1518 to the mid-19th century, millions of African men, women, and children made the 21-to-90-day voyage aboard grossly overcrowded sailing ships manned by crews mostly from Great Britain, the Netherlands, Portugal, and France. Tight packing: Ghana: first of the great medieval trading empires of western Africa (fl. 7th–13th century). Ghana was populated by Soninke clans of Mande-speaking people who acted as intermediaries between the Arab and Berber salt traders to the north and the producers of gold and ivory to the south. Hispaniola was the first area in the New World to receive the full imprint of Spanish colonial policy. During the first half century of Spanish rule, Hispaniola flourished: its rich mines and lush lands yielded abundant wealth, and it served as the administrative centre for Spain's burgeoning American empire. However, European diseases and brutal treatment decimated the Indian population.
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