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Across 1. first Europeans to join the slave trade 6. Africans were seized and sent here to work on plantations 10. Affonso I was king of the west-central African nation 13. united the Asante Kingdom and monopolized the gold and slave trade 14. emerged from present day Ghana that was united by Osei Tutu by conquering neighboring peoples 15. ruler of the Kongo who converted his people to Christianity and wanted to stop the slave trade 16. exclusive control or possession of something

Down 2. trade routes among Europeans and its colonies, the West Indies, and Africa in which goods were exchanged for slaves 3. voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies 4. millions of Africans traveled across this ocean to endure slavery on large plantations 5. slaves were considered cargo or ... 7. Boers built this first European settlement in South Africa 8. Europeans viewed them as the most important item of African trade 9. dutch farmers from the Netherlands that settled in Cape Town, South Africa 11. large farms or large estates on which the labor of slaves or other workers is used to grow crops 12. people who work to spread their religious beliefs