African History Study Guide

From 1500 to 1880 CE somewhere between _____ to _____ million Africans slave were forcibly moved from Africa to the Americans.

10 to 12

When Christopher Columbus reached the Cape Verde Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, he found that "a dark-skinned" people had been trading with them for more than _______ years.

100

About _____ % of those people died during the journey.

15

Senegambia (West Africa) is only about _______ miles from the South American coastal countries of Guyana and Suriname.

1500

When the Songhai Empire was invaded and conquered by the Moroccans in _______, the entire empire collapsed.

1594

The Malian empire declined in the _______ century.

15th

The first enslaved Africans arrived in

1619

Slavery was finally outlawed in Brazil in the

1880s

Leopold essentially owned Cong, and he ruled it as his private fiefdom from

1884 until 1806

In ___________ the plane of Rwanda's Hutu president was shot down and Rwandan Hutu's began murdering Rwandan Tutsi, killing between 800,000 and a million people i n 3 months

1994

The power and dominance of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai controlled western Africa for ________ years.

2,000

Over _____________ former slaves fought in the Civil War.

200,000

The average life expectancy for a Brazilian slave on a sugar plantation in the late 18th century was ______ years

23

Slaves probably made up ______% of the total Roman population, similar to the population of America at slavery's height

30

The Nubian and Kemetic people in eastern Africa built large boats and embarked on voyages as early as ________ BC.

3100

Each slave had an average of _____ square feet of space on a slave ship.

4

Slave ships could carry up to ______ people on board.

400

Slaves would often work _______ hours straight during harvest time, working without sleep in the sweltering sugar press houses where the can would be crushed in hand rollers and then boiled.

48

After the Arabs conquered northern Africa in the _____ century AD

7th

Fertilizing sugar cane required slaves to carry _____ pound baskets of manure on their heads up and down hilly terrain.

80

As early as the ____ century BC, African voyagers sailed to Mexico, one of several countries connected to the North and South American continents.

8th

The olmec statues stand roughly ____ feet tall.

9

Which Malian ruler visited the Americans in 1311 and 1312?

Ababukary II

Who was Alexander Stephens?

An american politician who served as vice president o the confidential states

The ________ Africa is the longest classical period in African and human history.

Ancient

On September 17, 1862 McClellan ended Lee's occupation in the North at __________ Maryland.

Antietam

The Civil War ended on ____________.

April 8, 1865

During the second classical season, the language of the Egyptians replaced by

Arabic

Mali was a major trading center and intellectual attraction for _________ and _____________, among others.

Arabs and Portugese

______________ said "It is clear that there are certain people who are free and certain people who are slaves by nature, and it is both to their advantage, and just, for them to be slaves."

Aristotle

The largest continent in the world is

Asia

48% of slaves went to the Caribbean, and 41% to _________, although few Americans recognize this, relatively few slaves were imported to the U.S. only about 5% of the total.

Brazil

The Fugitive Slave Act could be enforced in the United States, but not

Canada

A stricter Fugitive Slave Act was part of the ____________

Compromise of 1850

The Civil War began in 1861 when southern troops attacked

Fort Sumter, South Carolina

In July of 1862, the Union won a costly victory during the long battle at

Gettysburg

Persia is now called

Iran

Africa's third classical season is marked by the introduction of ____________ into Africa.

Islam

Where in the United States did the first enslaved Africans arrive?

Jamestown, Virginia

What started the Second Congo War?

Kabila expelling the Rwandans who had helped him into power

One reason for passage of the _________________ was to organize the territory into states so that q railroad could be built.

Kansas- Nebraska act

___________ was the name of ancient Egypt before the Greeks came and changed its name to Aigyptos (Egypt).

Kemet

The third classical season was also a time of some often greatest African Empires such as

Mali, Ghana, and Songhai

The _________ Empire was the most famous empire of West Africa.

Malian

The __________ Empire also possessed the strongest army of West Africa.

Malian

The Kansas- Nebraska Act gave slavey the opportunity to be legal in places that it had been illegal under the

Missouri compromise

The earliest civilizations in Africa probably lived along

Nile River

The great pyramids were built in

Nubia and Kemet

The ___________ civilization is one of the earliest civilizations we know of in Mexico and neighboring area.

Olmec

____________, _____________, and ____________became interested in Africa ideas and knowledge after they invaded the land.

Persia, Greece, and Syria

During the second classical season, Africa was invaded by

Persians, Greeks, Romans, and Arabs

The Olmec and Kemetic culture were known for:

Pyramids, Plazas, Stone heads, and sculpture

What was the single most important cause of the Civil War?

Slavery

Which Greek scholars studied in Africa?

Socrates, Plato, Homer, and Pythagoras

The fall of the ___________ Empire left the entire west region of Africa unprotected.

Songjhai

General Jackson for the South got the nickname __________________ after the Battle of Bull Run because he was a formidable officer.

Stonewall Jackson

The Dred Scott decision basically made slavery legal everywhere in the United States.

True

What famous novel about the horrors of slavery was written during this time?

Uncle Tom's cabin

When Spanish Voyagers such as ______________ and ______________ explored the Indian Ocean, they found Africans trading with the people of India and Japan.

Vascoda Gama and Bartolomec Olas

African explorers first came to the __________ as captains of their own ships and masters of their destiny, or fate.

americans

_____________, ____________, and _________________ spread to the outside world from Africa during the second classical season.

art, science, and mathematics

The second classical period was a time of great instability due to

constant foreign invasions

From 1965 to 1975, Mobutu was able to build the economy based on this huge ______________ boom.

cooper

Abubakari introduced African ________ to Mexico.

cotton

What plunged Zaire into debt?

crash of commodity prices

Art forms such ________, _________, and __________ spread to the outside world from Africa during the second classical season.

dance, music, and sculpture

The first real European slave trade began after the _________ Crusade in 1204.

fourth

During the ancient classical season, African traditions were established for

kings, queens, and military leaders

Africans were captured by other Africans and then traded to Europeans in exchange for

metals tools, textiles, and guns

The Battle of the Siege of Vicksburg gave the North control over which river?

mississippi

How many instances of violence were there between 1861-1865 during the Civil War?

more than 8,000

The Dred Scott decision basically said that black people were considered what?

property

What was Lincoln's initial reason for going to war?

to keep the country together

The Fugitive slave law required all white people to:

turn in slaves to authorities

During the time of the Fugitive Slave Law, __________ were becoming more politicized.

women