AAH Semester Exam Study Guide

Who was the African American from Virginia known as the prophet?

What is a call-and-response pattern?

How did Africans resist the Middle Passage?

Who is the King of Mali that made a pilgrimage to Mecca and is considered one of the wealthiest historical figures?

The Nile River flows through ____ different countries

Where is one of the largest slave ports (hub) in the Indian Ocean?

A person who assisted a plantation overseer

________ is not the only indicator of race, but one's genetic makeup and physical characteristics

What is the Kente cloth?

During his reign, who conquered Kush and reestablished Egyptian rule of Syria and Palestine?

What role did religion play in most west African societies?

What is a system of advantage and oppression based on racial prejudice and power?

Who was a freed Black that organized a plan to take over Charleston, South Carolina?

What is the place to which you were born or have citizenship?

Someone with the power to physically, mentally, emotionally and financially oppress an entire group of people

The West Indies are comprised of these three main island groups

Who led the Haitian Revolution?

____, ____ and ____ are the most widely spoken languages in Africa

What was the only nation in the world established as a result of a successful slave revolt?

The two main items in "the silent trade" that enriched Ghana were?

What is the only nation in the western hemisphere to have defeated three European superpowers (Britian, France & Spain)?

Cargo ships that is specially converted for the purpose of transporting slaves, especially newly captured African slaves

What is the longest river in Africa and in the world?

What's the difference between soul food and southern food?

What is the invasion, occupation, colonization and annexation of African territory by European powers?

What were the two regions in Africa that most slaves were taken from?

What is the pre-judging of members of a specific racial or ethnic group?

Hieroglyphics was the formal writing system used in this civilization

Who was a West African storyteller?

What is the economic route between Europe, Africa, and the Americas?

What is the strongest defense against the cruelties of slavery available to Africans in the United States?

The Mali king whose 1324 pilgrimage to Mecca helped lure Islamic architects, scholars, & professionals to Timbuktu?

Positive & negative misconceptions, incomplete information & over generalizations about members of racial/ethnic group

Approximately what percentage of enslaved Africans worked in the fields?

In the Americas, slavery was _____

Any hostile, derogatory or negative slight or prejudicial insult towards persons based solely on their race or ethnicity

Why are some Blacks choosing African names, African-sounding names or making up totally unique names?

What was the "silent trade"?

Defensive/negative emotional reaction occur when discrimination,racism & white privilege are called to white's attention

What is the significance of the Dashiki and the Kente cloth?

There are ____ different countries in Africa

African Folktales teach morals, values and cultural preservation

Characteristics & knowledge of a specific group,encompassing language,customs,religion,cuisine,social habits,music & art

What is a skin condition (occurs in ALL races) where the cells that produce melanin die or stop functioning?

What is a type of song that originated among enslaved African Americans, that usually dealt with Biblical themes?

What were called Kemet by the Egyptians?

A person who supervised the work of enslaved Africans on a plantation (usually white)

The Atlantic slave trade to the United States officially ended in which year?

An Arab traveler who traveled to 44 modern day countries. He is considered one of the greatest travelers of all time

What is the fact or state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition?

What is the most widely spoken Bantu language?

What are the two countries retaining their independence throughout the Scramble for Africa by European colonial powers?

What is an inherited genetic condition that reduces the amount of melanin pigment formed in the skin, hair, and or eyes

What were Freedom's Journals?

In the United States, the worst conditions for African Americans were found in the _____

Escaped enslaved Africans of Jamaica, that lived in the mountains

The unjust prejudicial treatment of a person/group based on their race or personal characteristics associated with race

What is a form of language particular to a group or region?

African Americans, Hispanic, Latino and Jewish are examples of _____

Most anthropologists recognize three to four basic races of man---Name three

What is the classification of humans into groups based on physical traits?

Where did many of the kings of the New Kingdom build their temples?

In West African kingdoms, land for farming usually belonged to _____

What was the basis for the wealth of Ghana, Mali, and the Songhai?

What were three of the most valuable products of the West Indies?

What are the countries south of the Sahara Desert?

The act of suspecting/targeting a person based on assumed characteristics/behavior of a racial/ethnic group

Who planned an attack on Richmond, Virginia, which failed when two African Americans informed white authorities?

Muslim traders sold captured Africans to the Middle East in the _____.

What were the two European nations that first controlled the African slave trade?

What is the genetic makeup and defining physical characteristics?

Which West African city became a center of Muslim learning and culture?

How did slaves supplement their diet?

A meeting at which Europeans agreed on rules for colonizing Africa

When did most African countries win their independence?

During the New Kingdom, who became the first woman to rule over Egypt?

What is a payment made by the groom's family to the bride's family?

By most estimates, Africa contains about ____ languages and dialects

______ is the oldest independent country in Africa

Came after slave trade began, in order to reconcile discomfort that many felt about treating Africans in inhumane ways