Chapter 25; Africa and the Atlantic world

Question 1

The Black Pioneers were?

Answer 1

Escaped slaves who fought to maintain British rule in the Northern American colonies.

Question 2

The rise in maritime trade in the early modern era in Africa?

Answer 2

Resulted in regional kingdoms replacing the imperial states of West Africa.

Question 3

The most important early city in the Songhay empire was?

Answer 3

Gao

Question 4

The most influential ruler in the rise of the Songhay empire was?

Answer 4

Sunni Ali

Question 5

Sunni Ali built a powerful imperial navy to patrol the?

Answer 5

Niger River

Question 6

All Songhay emperors were?

Answer 6

Islamic (Muslims)

Question 7

The Songhay empire fell in 1591 to?

Answer 7

A Moroccan army

Question 8

In 1505 all the Swahili city-states were subdued by the?

Answer 8

Portuguese

Question 9

The ruler of the kingdoms of Kongo, afonsol, converted to what religion and encouraged his subjects to convert as well?

Answer 9

Christianity

Question 10

King Nzinga Mbemba of Kongo is best known for his?

Answer 10

Conversion to Catholicism

Question 11

An alliance with Portugal brought wealth and foreign recognition to Kongo, as well as?

Answer 11

The eventual destruction of the kingdom.

Question 12

The Portuguese referred to Ndongo as Angola because of the world Ngola, which meant?

Answer 12

King

Question 13

The chief obstacle to Portuguese control of Angola came from?

Answer 13

Queen Nzinga

Question 14

The first European colony in sub-Saharan Africa was ?

Answer 14

Angola

Question 15

In an effort to drive the Portuguese out of Ndongo, Queen Nzinga formed an alliance with the?

Answer 15

Dutch

Question 16

What was the massive fortified city in Southern Africa that dominated the gold trade in its region of the continent until the late fifteenth century?

Answer 16

Great Zimbabwe

Question 17

A trading post was built at Cape Town in 1652 by the DUTCH MARINERS who encountered which of the following indigenous groups?

Answer 17

Khoikhoi who they called hottentots

Question 18

The center of Islamic learning in west Africa was?

Answer 18

Timbuktu

Question 19

Islam was most popular in subsaharan Africa in ?

Answer 19

The commercial centers of west Africa and the Swahili city states.

Question 20

Islam and Christianity usually spread into sub-Saharan Africa?

Answer 20

1.BECUASE of the failure of Judaism to capture a larger audience. 2. As syncretic versions of the original. 3. As a combination of Africa religions and the imported religion (syncretic ally)

Question 21

The Fulani ?

Answer 21

Attempted through military conquest, to instill a strict form of Islam in Africa.

Question 22

Which of the following was not an accomplishment of the Fulani ?

Answer 22

Stamp out African religions or eliminate indigenous elements from the syncretic Islam of west Africa.

Question 23

The founder of the religion that stressed that Jesus Christ had been a black man and that Kongo was the truely holy land was?

Answer 23

Dona Beatriz

Question 24

During the early modern period in Africa the basis of social organization continued to be?

Answer 24

Kinship groups

Question 25

The most important American crop introduced into Africa in the sixteenth century was ?

Answer 25

Manioc

Question 26

By the 1800, the population of sub-Saharan Africa stood at ?

Answer 26

60 million

Question 27

Throughout most of history, the majority of slaves came from?

Answer 27

Africa, War Captives

Question 28

One of the factors that made African slavery different from th varieties practiced elsewhere was that?

Answer 28

African law did not recognize private property and thus slaves served as a measure of personal wealth.

Question 29

The arrival of the Europeans ?

Answer 29

Dramatically increased previously existing slave networks. Caused existing slave trade to expand.

Question 30

The first European slave traders were?

Answer 30

Portuguese

Question 31

As part of the triangular slave trade, the Europeans usually picked up slaves in Africa in return for

Answer 31

Horses, Europeans, manufactured goods, cloth, and firearms.

Question 32

Over the course of the entire period of trans-Atlantic Slavery, the mortality rate for the middle passage was?

Answer 32

25%

Question 33

The heaviest slave trading took place in the?

Answer 33

Eighteenth century.

Question 34

The only place where a slave revolt usually brought about an end to slavery was?

Answer 34

Saint domingue : Haiti

Question 35

The first European nation to abolish the space trade was?

Answer 35

Denmark

Question 36

Which of the following is not associated with the syncretic religions of the Africans in the Americans?

Answer 36

Saramaka

Question 37

Thomas Peters was?

Answer 37

Central in promoting the establishment of a colony for ex-slaves in Sierra Leone.