Chapter 17 Quiz C with References

. In the early modern period, most western Africans made a living as _____.

Agriculturalists.

Industrial workers.

Hunter-gatherers.

Pastoralists.

. After the 7th century, Islam became dominant in the _____ region of Western Africa.

Rain forest.

Western coastal.

Savanna.

Sahara.

. Animal husbandry was far more developed in Western Africa than in either Eurasia or the Americas.

True.

False.

. In addition to the spread of Islam, the other catalyst for change in West Africa after the 8th century was _____.

A long dry spell.

The Little Ice Age.

The slave trade.

The spread of Christianity on 611 coast.

. The kingdoms of Mali and Songhai were both linked into the Mediterranean world via _____.

The Indian Ocean trade.

Similar religious beliefs.

Trade routes across the Sahara.

Missionaries that traveled the Sahara.

. The arrival of Portuguese coastal traders revitalized Benin's power, which was based in trade in textiles.

True.

False.

. Most West Central Africans practiced subsistence agriculture without beasts of burden to pull their plows, primarily because _____.

They had no domesticated large animal.s

Tsetse flies decimated large livestock in the region.

Diseases like malaria made death rates too high.

They lacked ambition to create a more efficient agricultural system.

. West Central Africa had no connection to the system of global trade of which coastal West African kingdoms were a part.

True.

False.

. Blacksmiths were vitally important to the survival of early modern kingdoms because _____.

They made swords to equip armies.

Farmers depended on them for agricultural implements.

They built ships for trade down dangerous rivers.

They knew how to find valuable metals for trade.

. The first Portuguese points of contact with Africans were called feitoria, or _____.

Military colonies.

Banking hubs.

Guest houses.

Fortified trading posts.

. The warring states of West Africa produced one major commodity for trade, _____.

Gold.

Salt.

Slaves.

Textiles.

. Training African priests to spread Catholicism in Southern Africa was limited because _____.

No Africans were interested in being priests.

No Africans were interested in Catholicism.

Portuguese priests did well at converting Africans without help.

Of emerging ideas of a racial hierarchy.

. Queen Nzinga of Ndongo helped her people to survive by _____.

Defeating the Portuguese.

Allying with the Portuguese and defeating her enemies.

Adapting and building her own slave trading state.

Rejecting European ways in favor of African traditions.

. Northern European participation in the slave trade grew because _____.

They wanted to make money like the Portuguese.

Of colonization efforts in the Americas.

Of competition for ownership of Caribbean islands.

Of religious rivalries in Africa.

. The capture of African slaves was primarily done by Africans.

True.

False.

. Conditions of the Middle Passage were terrible, primarily _____.

To make transporting slaves more efficient.

Because Africans were seen as less than human.

Because Africans were seen as strong enough to bear this treatment.

All of the above.

. The number of African slaves brought to the New World between the 16th and early 19th centuries was _____.

Roughly 2 million.

Between 4 and 5 million.

Between 20 and 50 million.

Between 10 and 12 million.

. Margin-dwelling groups in Africa, such as the Pygmies, were _____.

Refugees from conquest and the slave trade.

Driven from more accessible regions into the margins.

Thought to have been entirely unaffected by European contact.

All of the above.

. Like their Bantu neighbors, Pygmies venerated their dead ancestors.

True.

False.

. Bantu speakers began to move into Pygmy territory after 1500 because of _____.

The introduction of iron tools.

Banana cultivation in the rain forest.

Religious demands.

Both A and B.

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