AAH Exam 1
Which of the following was the first known kingdom in western Sudan?
Ghana
The Nubians established an independent kingdom known as
Kush
Which of the following was the largest of the empires in western Sudan?
Songhai
What was the first European nation to actively colonize the Americas?
Spain
Settled village life was the result of the emergence of
agriculture
What did the people of Kongo and Angola have in common with the people of West Africa?
they were ensnared in the Atlantic slave trade
Mali was than Ghana
wealthier
Why did Portuguese sea captains explore the west coast of Africa in the fifteenth century?
They were interested in trade
The major early roots of African-American culture lay in the civilizations that emerged in
West Africa
Which of the following created enormous demand for West African slaves in sixteenth-century Brazil?
sugar plantations
What was the main reason colonial assemblies banned interracial marriages?
to keep white women from having mixed-race children
Which of the following helps explain why the 32 people of African descent who arrived in Jamestown in the early seventeenth century were not considered slaves?
The English did not have a law establishing slavery
In the early 1400s, the began to explore the coastline of Africa.
Portuguese
In what century did the English become the dominant power in the Atlantic slave trade?
17th
The indigenous peoples of North America migrated to the Americas from
Asia
Which of the following events was a major turning point in the West African slave trade with Europeans?
Columbus's voyages
Which of the following was the earliest civilization in Africa?
Egypt
Peru, and Central America were home to densely populated civilizations
Mexico
Evidence indicates that members of the Homo habilis species probably
The first tool users
Which of the following statements best describes the triangular trade system produced by the Atlantic slave trade?
The middle part of the trade included traders carrying African slaves to the West Indies and exchanging slaves for sugar.
Under chattel slavery, enslaved African Americans were the legal equivalents of
livestock
Which of the following was a major component of the trans-Saharan trade?
slaves
Which of the following may have originated in Nubia and then spread to Egypt
the production of grain in the concept of monarchy