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Chapter 19 Quiz
African Kingdoms, the Atlantic Slave Trade, and the Origins of Black America, 1450–1800
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___________ was an African empire during the fifteenth and
sixteenth centuries:
Benin
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Ethiopia
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Kanem-Bornu
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Songhay
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The following order is correct:
Proprietors of Barbados establish Colony of Carolina; first African slaves in England's North American colonies; first African slaves land in Hispaniola; first African slaves land in Brazil.
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First African slaves in England's North American colonies; proprietors of Barbados establish Colony of Carolina; first African slaves land in Hispaniola; first African slaves land in Brazil.
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First African slaves land in Hispaniola; first African slaves land in Brazil; first African slaves in England's North American colonies; proprietors of Barbados establish Colony of Carolina.
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First African slaves land in Brazil; first African slaves in England's North American colonies; proprietors of Barbados establish Colony of Carolina; first African slaves land in Hispaniola.
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Some Catholic monks in the kingdom of Kongo denounced
ngangas
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Immoral women such as prostitutes.
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Wives who refused to take care of their children.
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Witches
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Men who left their families in order to seek their fortunes elsewhere.
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In the opening vignette of the chapter, Dona Beatriz is portrayed as all of the following
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A deeply religious woman who believed that she was the reincarnation of St. Anthony of Padua.
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A committed pacifist, determined to prevent violence at any cost.
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God's providential agent sent to restore the Catholic faith.
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A critic of the Catholic faith in the efficacy of the sacraments.
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The long-range impact of a Muslim invasion of northern Sub-Saharan Africa in the sixteenth century:
Strengthened the drive toward centralization in the area as societies organized for war.
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Brought empire-building in the northern Sub-Saharan African societies to a halt.
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Caused the societies in the savanna region of Central Africa to scatter and decentralize.
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Put most of Africa under Sharia law.
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All of the following are true of Songhay
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It was initially a tributary state of Mali.
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It was centered on the city of Gao, on the Niger River.
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They amassed the wealth to embark on a drive of military conquest by raiding caravans and other trade missions.
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The Songhay were an ethnic group of herders, villagers, and fishermen.
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The Hausa kingdoms:
Were located in the far south, near the Horn of Africa.
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"Hausa" were named for the three kingdoms that formed around 1500.
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Formed at the height of the Mali-dominated trans-Saharan trade.
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Successfully prevented the spread of Islamic religious beliefs into their territories.
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In South Central Africa (on the southern side of the rainforest, the eastern part of the southern savanna, and the Great Lakes area of Central Africa):
Muslim influence arrived early in the fifth century.
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Societies remained outside of the reach of the slave trade to the Americas.
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Increases in population led them to participate in the European slave trade by the sixteenth century.
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Because of their remote location, there was never a need to develop political organization, such as chiefdoms.
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What did the Portuguese produce using slave labor on plantations on islands off the coast of Africa?
Cotton
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Sugar
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Guinea pepper
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Wine
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All of the following were true of Ethiopia in the 15
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The Ethiopian economy was based on productive agriculture, with the king controlling a trade in gold, ivory, animal skins and slaves.
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By the early 16
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The Portuguese aided Ethiopia in its war with Adal.
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The Ottoman Empire at first aided Adal, but eventually retreated when faced by Ethiopian determination and Portuguese military might.
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All of the following statements are true of the Portuguese interaction or contacts in West Africa
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African agriculturalists became much more productive after adopting Portuguese iron plow shears.
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By the 1440s, Portuguese mariners raided the West African coast for slaves.
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In early skirmishes with Africans, the precisely aimed poisoned arrows of the Africans were more effective than the Portuguese muskets.
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The Portuguese gained rights to trade and build posts through treaties with local African leaders.
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Trade between Europeans and Africans during the period 1500 to 1800:
Was largely motivated by food shortages during the cold period known as "the little ice age", and was generally comprised of wheat, rice, or other grains necessary to sustain life.
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Was generally an exchange of luxury goods rather than basic necessities, geared toward enhancing elite power through a display of conspicuous consumption.
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Almost always included quantities of alcoholic beverages to entice Africans to enter into trade with Europeans.
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Primarily involved the exportation of slaves during the first two centuries.
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All of the following is true of the trade between Portuguese mariners and the kingdom of Benin
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The king of Benin allowed the Portuguese to build a fort on the coast in 1487.
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At first the trade consisted of an exchange goods for slaves.
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When a later king ordered the halt of the slave trade, the Portuguese agreed, and turned to European sources of labor.
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The admission of missionaries and Portuguese envoys allowed members of the royal court to learn about Portuguese culture.
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All of the following are true of the Dutch in South Africa
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A few wealthy landowners imported the first black slaves to the colony in 1658.
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The built a fort on the South African coast in 1652.
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The first settlers were craftsmen and traders, but by 1750 there were about 10,000 Dutch farmers in the Cape Colony.
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A Dutch settler society gradually emerged, particularly when they offered a haven to English Catholics seeking refuge.
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All of the following are true of the system of slavery in the Americas
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An estimated 12 percent died in transit.
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There is no general agreement as to the exact number of Africans brought to the Americas as slaves, but it is estimated that around 12.5 million were shipped from Africa.
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The greatest number of slaves was shipped to Brazil.
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The greatest number of slaves was imported into the southern part of the United States.
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In legal terms, how were African slaves in the New World perceived?
They were seen as having the same legal rights as their owners.
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They were seen as an item of moveable personal property or chattel.
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They were seen as having legal protections from physical harm.
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They were seen much the same as previous indentured servants from Europe.
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"Presentism" is
The belief that we can judge the past through an analysis of the long-term impact of the decisions and actions of past societies.
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A belief that modern humans can only learn from the past by looking at it through the lens of modern knowledge.
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A bias toward present-day attitudes as we interpret history.
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The belief that the events of the past inevitably led to today's reality.
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All of the following are true of the Americas soon after the Spanish arrived EXCEPT:
African slaves worked in mining and on sugar plantations.
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As many Europeans died from American diseases as Americans from European diseases.
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Smallpox epidemics ravaged the Native peoples.
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African slaves were imported to supplement the labor force.
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The average life span of a sugar plantation slave is estimated to have been:
Five or six years
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Until age 50 for males; slightly longer for females
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Until age 27 or so
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Twelve to fifteen years
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"Mercantilism" is a political/economic theory that holds that:
Merchants enrich their society, and should therefore occupy political leadership positions.
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A thriving import business is vital to national interests.
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Nations are weakened by excessive export.
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The security of a nation depends on the supply of precious metals it controls.
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All of the following is true of indentured laborers
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English planters in Barbados imported English and Irish indentured laborers.
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After English and Irish workers became unwilling to migrate as indentured laborers, law courts sentenced those accused of crimes to "transportation" to serve as indentured labor.
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Indentured laborers worked in the Americas for 3-7 years to pay off the cost of their passage across the Atlantic.
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Indenture was abandoned because African slaves quickly proved a better source of labor.
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Initially, slave labor was brought to North America:
To work in the timber industry
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To work on tobacco plantations
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To work producing wheat and barley
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To produce rice and indigo for the Caribbean
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All of the following is true of the Carolina colony
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It began under the authority of the Lords Proprietors in Barbados
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Initially, settlers enslaved tens of thousands of Native Americans
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Settlers approved of the management of the Lords Proprietors
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South Carolina became a royal colony in 1719
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All of the following were important economically in the Carolinas
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Sugar cane and molasses
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Rice
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Indigo
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Woven cotton cloth
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James Oglethorpe originally founded the colony of Georgia for:
England's poor, debtors, and dispossessed
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Catholic refugees from England
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Freed slaves from the Carolinas
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Irish and Scottish indentured servants
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After the capture of Elmina in 1637, the ___________ became the principal transporters of slaves across the Atlantic.
French
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Spanish
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Dutch
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English
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"Creole" cultures emerge:
With the interaction of different societies.
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Generally only when societies are militarily defeated by a stronger society and have the customs of the conqueror forced upon them.
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When indigenous religions are eradicated.
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Generally only when subordinate people imitate the manners and language of dominant societies.
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Which of the following locations did not have a Maroon settlement?
Barbados
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Jamaica
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Colombia
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Surinam
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About how many African captives were taken from West Central Africa?
Five hundred thousand
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Two million
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Five million
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One million
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The Atlantic trade system shown in the map above was also known as:
the triangle trade
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the plantation trade
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the commodities trade
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the circular trade
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The picture above is of a Voodoo alter and shrine. Voodoo is considered a(n) ____________ religion.
animist
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gnostic
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archaic
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syncretic
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