AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES

Identify an accurate statement about Africans in Central America

They were a considerable source of trouble to the Spanish authorities.

Identify an accurate statement about trading posts that were used for slave trafficking in the seventeenth century

They were actually forts

Which of the following statements is true of Muslim slaves?

They were allowed to marry

Identify an accurate statement about the serfs in Eastern Europe

They were considered persons with certain legal rights

Which of the following is true about the NOK pieces that were unearthed in Nigeria in the twentieth century?

They were constructed by using an addictive process

Identify an accurate statement about mining slaves in Brazil

They were moved into the interior near Goyaz, Corumba, and the Mato Grosso plateau

Dyula

West African trader groups who contributed in the long-distance trade of the African continent were known as _____

What did Negroes do to avoid enslavement in the New World?

They attacked ships and longboats to rescue captives, and they would leap off the ship into the mouths of sharks on their voyage.

Identify an accurate statement about African slaves who set foot on the shores of North America in the seventeeth century.

They built houses, grew tobacco, rice, and sugar, andtrapped fur-bearing animals.

Identify an accurate statement about Maroons in the Caribbean islands

They continuously harrassed planters by stealing, trading with slaves, and enticing them to escape

Identify an accurate statement about the NOK people of the African continent

They lived in organized, permanent settlements that were centers of both agriculture and iron work

Which of the following statements is true about enslaved Negroes being taken across the Atlantic

They offered stiffresistance to their capture, sale, and transport

Identify an accurate statement about Europeans who entered into slave trade negotiations with African rulers and traders dueing the seventeeth and eighteenth centuries.

They paid courtesy visits to secure permission to trade

Which of the following statements is true of English landlords in the Caribbean?

They regarded the islands merely as a source of wealth rather than a place of residence

Identify an accurate statement about dyula

They utilized a complex system of weights and measures, as well as gold and cowry shells

A favorite punishment exerted by overseers on slaves in the Caribbean was to ___

suspend the slaves from trees by ropes and tie iron weights around their necks and waists

The largest concentration of blacks in continental Spanish America was in___

the Virceroyalty of New Granada

During the sixteenth century, slaves were mostly obtained through____

warefare

Blacks were listed as ____ in the American census counts of 1623 and 1624

servants

The act that was passed by the British Parliament in 1667 to regulate the Negroes on the British plantations prohibited___

slaves from leabing the plantation without a pass or caarrying any weapons

The introduction of ____ cultivation into Bahia in 1540 stimulated the importation of Africans in Brazil

sugar

Which of the following was an important factor in the development of practices destructive of health and life among slaves in the Caribbean?

Absentee landlordism

Salt

According to 5the classification of the various ecological zones in the African continent, the Sahara region of the continent was known for the production of ___

Which of the following languages did the slaves in North America speak?

Spanish, Dutch, English

The compensation given by the man's family to the woman's family for the economic loss of a daughter's labor upon marriage is known as___

Bridewealth

Which of the following were major ports of entry for slave traders in Uruaguay and Argentina?

Buenos Aires and Montevideo

How did Songhay catapult into a position of primacy in West Africa?

By conquering important nearby kingdoms

Match the centers of slave distribution in Brazil with the places they were employed

1. Bahia and Sergipe ----> Plantations and domestic service on the coast 2. Rio de Janeiro and Sāo Paulo -----> Cane fields and coffee plantations or capital 3. Mina Gerais ----> Province's great gold mines

Arrange the events that lead to Spain's loss of claim to the exclusive control of the Caribbean in the seventeenth century in the correct order.

1. England secured control of St. Christopher and Barbados 2. France acquired St. Lucia and Grenada 3. England drove Spain out of Jamaica 4. Denmark acquired St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands

Arrange the events of Juan Garrido's life in chronological order

1. He departed from Seville as part if a Spanish expedition to the Americas 2. He participated in the Spanish settlement of Puerto Rico and Cuba 3. He accompanied Ponce de León on his two expeditions to Florida. 4. Juan Garrido served under Hernán Cortés in the army that destroyed the Aztec Empire in Mexico

What did Askia Muhammad and his followers learn from his journey to the Mecca in 1497?

1. How to codify the laws of Songhay 2. How to improve the administration of the government 3. How to raise the intellectual level of the country 4. How to foster industry and trade

Identify a true statement about the crucifix in local kongo traditions

1. Kongo leaders used the crucifix as vehicles dir communicating with deities and ancestors 2. Crucifixes played a significant role un legal proceedings

Which if the following are true of the Kingdom of Ghana during the ninth century?

1. Most of its public offices were hereditary, and its social order was stratified. 2. The town of Kumbi Saleh an important commercial center during the ninth century. 3. The people of Ghana enjoyed some prosperity as farmers until continuous droughts tuned their land into desert.

What led to the early black participation in America's colonization?

1. Spain's dominant role in the slave trade from Africa to the Western Hemisphere 2. The presence of individual slaves and free blacks in the parties of Spanish explorers, conquistadors, and settlers who laid claim to "La Florida"

In the context of the events that lead to Spain's loss of claim to the exclusive control of the Caribbean in the seventeenth century, match the countries with the Caribbean islands acquired by them

1. The Dutch Republic---->Curaçao and Tobago 2.France---->Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Marie Galante 3. England----> Nevis and Montserrat

Arrange the places visited by Mansa Musa on his pilgrimage to Meccain the order from beginning from the first place he visited to the last.

1. Various parts of the kingdom 2. Tuat in the land of the Berbers 3. Cairo 4. Mecca and Medina

Why did slavery internal to Africa prefer women to men?

Because they could be more easily assimilated into local kinship groups

Sahara

Between 300 B.C.E and 1500 C.E., the _______ region of the African continent experienced progressively drier periods, a process known as desiccation, interrupted by occasion wet periods.

According to David Pelteret's exhaustive study of early medieval England, which of following were likely to put individuals in slave status legally?

Birth, war captivity, punishment

After France took control of the Mississippi Valley in the seventeenth century, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, a French-speaking black, erected the first building in a place that later came to be known as

Chicago

During the heyday, Benin's kings controlled the use of ____ in all forms, so that the metal was primarily employed to adorn the king's palace and to embellish royal regalia

Copper

Identify a visitor who returned with Mansa Musa from his pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324

El-Momar, a descendant of the founder of the dynasty of the Almohads

Níger-Congo

Equatorial and Southern Africa

True or False: Slaves in Guatemala City never became free and developed into substantial citizens.

False

True or False: The increase in the Caribbean Islands' black population resulted from the predominance of births over deaths

False

Eight decades before the English founded the Virginia colony at Jamestown in 1607, people of African descent took part in the settlement of____

Florida

Identify the countries that acquired their own respective islands in the Caribbean in the seventeenth century, effectively ending Spain's claim to exclusive control of the region

France, England, Denmark

______, which lay about 500 miles northwest of its modern namesake, represents the first of the great imperial powers in West Africa

Ghana

A true statement about the Hausa city-states is that they

Grew from trade relations with other African states and with North Africans across the Sahara

Which of the following statements is true about Adkins Muhammad, who reigned the Songhay kingdom?

He devoted his energies to solidifying his empire, making his people prosperous and encouraging learning.

Identify an accurate statement about African-descended conquistador Juan Garrido

He received land for his military service and established himself in Mexico City

Identify an accurate statement about the Mossi states of West Africa

Their strength lay in their efficient political and military system

Bambuk

In the eleventh century, at the height of Ghana's empire, the dominant source of gold was in ___

In Islamic societies, slaves were viewed as ___

Inhabiting a temporary state of legal exclusion

The iron finding, which included knife and ax blades, arrows, and fragments from an iron-smelting furnace wall, refute claims that

Iron smelting was introduced to Africa from an external, nonblack civilization

An accurate statement about the Mali kingdom is that___

It began to emerge as power in 1235 as Ghana declined

Identify a true state,ent about the third category of black slaves shipped to the Spanish colonies in the 1500s from Africa or from Iberia that comprised the "armed auxiliary" to the Spanish conquerors as termed by historian Matthew Restall

It constituted slave men who accompanied their masters in exploration and battle

Identify a true statement about the third category of black slaves shipped to the Spanish colonies in the 1500s from Africa or from Iberia that comprised the "armed auxilary" to the Spanish conquerors as termed by historian Matthew Restall

It constituted slave men who accompanied their masters in exploration and battle

In the context of slavery, identify an accurate statement about Virginia during its first half century.

It did not have strict criteria for distinguishing slaves from servants.

Identify an accurate statement about the kingdom of Songhay.

It emerged triumphant after the decline of Mali

Identify an outcome of the victory of the legendary Sunday's Keita in a revolt against the Susu King Sumaoro in the early thirteenth century

It extended Mali's rule over the land once dominated by ancient Ghana

Identify an accurate statement about the Catholic Church that tended to play an important role in shaping the slave experience in Latin America

It insisted that slaves be baptized as Catholics

Identify an accurate statement about bridewealth

It is found in parts of the world where women are highly valued

In the context of the great empires of West Africa, identify the true statement about the Kingdom of Ghana

It was a confederacy of settlements extending along the grasslands of the Senegal and the upper Niger rivers

Identify an accurate statement about the kingdom of Ndongo-Matamba in West Central Africa.

It was a decentralized state at the time of European contact in the 1560s

Identify an accurate statement about the voyage of slaves to the Americas

It was characterized by overcrowding

Fugitive slaves who attempted to create their own communities in the mountainous interior of the Caribbean were called ____

Maroons

The voyage of African slaves to the Americas was usually called the ____

Middle Passage

Nilo-Siharan

North-central Africa

Afro-Asiatic

Northern Africa

According to historian Matthew Restall, after entering the New World, some slaves from the third category of black slaves shipped ti the Spanish colonies in the 1500s from Africa or from Iberia termed "armed auxiliary" to the Spanish conquerors gained fame for their _____

Participation in the conquest of the Americas

In the sixteenth century,_____was able to acquire slaves as a result of Kongo's expansionist policies toward its neighbors

Portugal

In the sixteenth century, ____ was able to acquire slaves as a result of Kongo's expansionist policies toward its neighbors

Portugual

In African societies, ironworkers were thought to

Possess magical-religious powers

Identify the Caribbean islands where Spain channelized its energies because of the explorations and to the pope's actions of 1493

Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Hispaniola

What does the absence of considerable populations of blacks in modern Uruguay and Argentina suggest?

Remarkable biological and cultural fusion that occurred after the end of the Spanish empire

Which of the following statements is true about Queen Njinga who was one of the first female rulers of Ndongo?

She spent much of her reign justifying her claim to the throne and fighting off Portuguese encroachment on her land.

Which of the following statements is true of slave trading between Europeans and African rulers and traders during the seventeeth and eighteenth centuries?

Some traders consulted physicians and other advisors about impending purchase.

Koisan

Southern Africa

Iron Age

The ancient Nok people of the Jos Plateau have been identified by archeologists as an early ____ society

Slaves who voyaged to the Americas were likely to suffer from____

The flux

____in the Latin counties traded to be more attributable to the revatively fewer white Spanish and Portuguese women in the New World

The greater number of interracial marriages

Who promoted the enactment of slave codes of excessive severity in the Caribbean?

The growing preponderance of blacks over whites

What promoted the enactment of slave codes of excessive severity in the Caribbean?

The growing preponerance of blacks over whites

Identify an accurate statement about Nok portrait heads, which were once part of full-body figures, unearthed in Nigeria

The heads are distinguished by meticulous renderings of elaborate hairstyles and jewelry

Which of the following factors was responsible for the high mortality rates of blacks in the Caribbean in the seventeenth century?

The ravages of disease and improper food

Which of the following statements is true about the plantation slaves in Brazil?

They were supervised for the most part by stewards who tortured them into performing their tasks

Identify the true statement about the twenty Africans who were on the ship White Lion docked in Port Comfort, Virginia, on the James River in August 1619

They were the first Africans to enter the British colonies.

Identify an accurate statement about Africans who supported different expeditions in the seventeenth century

They were with the French explorers on the North American continent

Which of the following statements is true of urban slaves that were there in colonial Brazil?

They worked as servants in the town homes of planters, in shops, and at the docks

True or False: Interracial marriage in a legal sense was not an option in the British colonies in Latin America in the New World

True

Identify the distinct groups of slaves that were present in colonial Brazil

Urban slaves, Plantation slaves, Mining slaves

In the context of the population of blacks in South America in the New World, by the turn of the nineteenth century, _____ each had a combined free black and slave population that stood at over 60 percent of their total populations

Venezuela and Panama

In the context of the population of blacks in Southern in the New World, by the turn of the nineteenth century, _____ each had a combined free black and slave population that stood at over 60 percent of their total populations

Venezuela and Panama

Which of the following punishments functioned as an integreal part of the seasoning process when dealing with slaves in the Caribbean?

Whipping

What did the Spanish produce with slave labor to make the most of their Caribbean holdings after losing some of the islands in various conflicts

coffee, tobacco, sugar

Identify the important European items that were exchanged for slaves in the seventeenth century

cotton textiles, utensils, guns and gunpowder

A true statement about the Catholic Church in Latin America is that it ____

did not succeed in eliminating the cruel slave treatment and horrendous working conditions

The urban slaves who stood on street corners ready to assist shoppers with their packages or went from house to house offering their services to people who did not have servants were known as _____

negros de ganho