HS 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Nzinga Of Ndongo And Matamba, Portuguese Empire, Shell Money
8 Mar 2018
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Kingdom of kongo emerges north of the congo river before 1400; confederation of. Elected monarchy-four electors, mostly within ruling clan of mwissikongo. Moved south of congo river in the 15th (cid:272)entury. Frontier provinces ruled by governors with great privileges and closer familial bond to. Other clan bound to king by marriages of ruling families. Control over trading routes-salt and nzimbu shells from the coast, copper form the. Iba battuta- qadi, he wrote travel writing, written in arabic (14th century) Kingdom of kongo (1390-1914): clans with control of copper mines. by the ruling clan, not the ruler personally. center, cloth from eastern provinces. M"(cid:271)anza kongo (cid:894)sao salvador(cid:895) and the provin(cid:272)es: renamed sao salvador after conversion to christianity in the 1490s. the king. Conversion and slave trade: diocese established on sao tom . Afonso about how terrible the slave trade is draining the area.
