World Civ Midterm Multiple Choice Quiz 19

Although the precise number of Africans transported to the Americas in the slave trade is difficult to determine, nearly half of the total were sent to ________.

Brazil

By the sixteenth century, the capital of Kongo, M'banza, was comparable in size to.

London

Between 1434 and 1472, _________ mariners explored the African coast as far east as the Bight of Benin.

Portuguese

The unequal relations between Tutsi cattle breeders and ______ farmers froze into a caste system during the nineteenth-century colonial occupation.

Hutu

In contrast to their counterparts in West Africa, the Fur and Funj federations between Lake Chad and the Nile ____________

Were fully converted to Islam, from the royal clans down to the commoners.

Barbados was settled initially in 1627 by English planters who employed English and Irish ____________.

indentured laborers

An example of a Creole language that has survived for centuries is Gullah, used by the isolated communities along the coastal islands of Georgia and _______.

south carolina

The Atlantic system or the "_________" trade connected the American colonies with Africa and Europe.

triangular

The demand for slave labor reached new heights in Brazil when:

Gold was discovered in Minas Gerais in 1690.

_______ was the only North American colony, and later state, in which African Americans outnumbered those of European descent.

south carolina

After the Dutch, who dominated the slave trade with West Africa?

the english

The 2016 film, Birth of a Nation dramatized the 1831 slave rebellion led by ___________.

Nat Turner

The kings of Kongo demonstrated their absorption of Portuguese culture by:

Sending members of the ruling family to Portugal for their education.

The popularity of rum promoted:

The expansion of sugar planting and slavery, to their peak after 1750.

What greatly helped the Portuguese trade with West Africans for cloth and metal that were in demand in Europe?

They built forts on the coast from which to trade.

What did King Sebastião I of Portugal establish in 1571?

A colony adjacent to the kingdom of Ndongo in Africa.

Some slave-ship captains favored the "tight packing" method, deliberately overcrowding their human cargo on a Middle Passage voyage on the assumption that:

A few more captives might survive than on a ship that was less crowded.

The rulers of Benin did all of the following except:

Actively resisted the encroachment of Portuguese cultural values.

In the Kongolese belief system, Portuguese Catholicism was:

Adapted to the indigenous African spiritual and cultural heritage.

African rulers sold slaves to the Europeans as:

Correct answer: Luxury items to be exchanged for other luxury items.

Around 1750, there were about 10,000 Boers (Dutch for "_______") in the Cape Colony, easily outnumbered by slaves.

Farmers

Mercantilist economic theory dictates that:

States should keep their economies blocked off from competitors and import as little and export as much as possible.

The average slave field hand on a sugar plantation was estimated to live:

five or six years

The colony that James Oglethorpe established in North America would eventually become the state of __________.

georgia

As part of the African ________, Africans moved to nearly all parts of the Americas primarily as a result of the transatlantic slave trade.

Diaspora