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