History

• An aggragarian society is an agricultural society
• Monarch: a sovereign head of state, especially a king, queen, or emperor
• Portrait: a painting, drawing, photograph, or engraving of a person, especially one depicting only the face or head and shoulders
• Protestants don’t follow the teachings of the Pope whereas catholics do
• An ambassador is someone who represents a country or place
• A colony is an area of land where people have some over to live.
• Persecution is when a group is bullied for their race or religion
• Migration is when you move from one place to another
• A settler is someone who captures land on their own.
• Indigenous people are groups of people who are natives of the land
• A privateer is a pirate who has permission to steal and attack people or a country.
• Francis Drake was born in Tavistock, Devon, England and he was a farmers son. He is the most renowned sea pirate With his ship being named the ‘Judice’. He also had connections with the Cimarrons.
• The Kingdom of Kush in Africa lasted over 100 years but peaked in its second millennium.
• The Kingdom of Punt in Africa was around in 2500 B.C. It was on the East Coast of Africa near the Red Sea.
• The Kingdom of Carthage was a Phoenician city-state that was the dominant power in the western Mediterranean Sea. Lasted 8th-9th century B.C, noe know as Tunisia.
• The Kingdom of Aksum was a Christian kingdom in the Horn of Africa that ruled from the 3rd century to the 7th century.
• Limited Suffrage is when the right to vote is restricted to small groups of the population.
• Lack of political parties as well as limited representation is when there isn’t any parties that represent the people, but rather catered to specific individuals or a small portion of the population.
• Limited Universal Rights is when there is no concept of universal human rights or individual rights as we know them today.
• England was a republic between 1649 - 1660. It was ruled by Oliver Cromwell, an authoritarian ruler.
• 1707 is the act of the union - England and Scotland unite.
• 1832 - wealthy males can vote. (1 in 7 men).
• Enslavement - the act of making people into slaves, usually depriving them of Human Rights.
• The Atlantic slave trade was a global slave trade that began in the late 1400s.
• African slavery already existed before the Atlantic Slave Trade in forms Like indentured servants who worked off debt or for food. As well as Serts who worked for a family.
• Oral evidence - Different elements of accounts, probably from a witness.
• Physical evidence - used for depictions of what happened based of artefacts.
• Visual evidence - used for first-hand accounts of what happened.
• Written Evidence - used for first-hand accounts of what happened but they can be biased.
• Abolition means to end something
• MP William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson were part of the abolitionists.
• 1807 - the year Parliament banned slave trading.
• 1833 - the year parliament banned slavery all together.
• Great Man Theory - Great leaders are born, not made.
• Reginald Coupland(traditional historian) made his conclusion of wilberforce by looking at his diary, speeches, letters and books.
• Dr Eric Williams - Wilberforce

  William does not use any Positive language about wilberforce so it is quite passive aggressive. He says that Wilberforce has quite a feminine-based face with feminine features which is quite sexist. He also says that he lacks the ability to be a leader.
• Enslaved person - A person who is treated as property whilst being deprived of basic human rights and needs.
• Colonisation - a process of establishing control over specific territories or peoples for the purpose of cultivation.
• Transatlantic Slave Trade - The global period of slave trading That occurred from the late 1400s - 1833.
• Middle Passage - The voyage from Africa to the New World of the Americas.