African American History Unit 1--RES- 2020-21

Question 1

What is believed to have caused racial differences in humans?

Accepted Answer

Environments

Question 2

How many different ethnic groups exist in Africa?

Accepted Answer

1,000

Question 3

Africa is a...

Accepted Answer

Continent

Question 4

What was the purpose of the Great Pyramids in Egypt?

Accepted Answer

Burial Chambers

Question 5

Why is Africa considered the "cradle of humankind"?

Accepted Answer

The oldest fossil remains of humans was found there

Question 6

How did most West Africans work and live in the early 16th century?

Accepted Answer

As Farmers

Question 7

Name the female who ruled Egypt for 20 years?

Accepted Answer

Hatshepsut

Question 8

Which of the following is a literacy form common to early African civilizations?

Accepted Answer

Oral Histories

Question 9

What was considered inspiration for most West African Art?

Accepted Answer

Related to religion

Question 10

The longest river in the world is

Accepted Answer

Nile

Question 11

All of the following are among the three great Medieval West African empires, EXCEPT...

Accepted Answer

Kush

Question 12

When did the United States outlaw the trans-Atlantic Slave Trade?

Accepted Answer

1808

Question 13

Ancient Egypt was noteworthy for which of the following?

Accepted Answer

Achievements like Math, Astronomy, etc

Question 14

Which desert was so large it limited contact between the rest of Africa and the Mediterranean?

Accepted Answer

Sahara

Question 15

What type of work started in Africa around 5,000 B.C.?

Accepted Answer

Agriculture

Question 16

What world religion spread through Africa by nomadic trade groups?

Accepted Answer

Islam

Question 17

How did Arabs help African civilization?

Accepted Answer

Arabic writing and modern ideas of government

Question 18

What is considered to be the main cause of the slave trade?

Accepted Answer

European labor demands

Question 19

How many enslaved Africans were brought to the New World?

Accepted Answer

Between 10 and 15 Million

Question 20

What theory says Homo sapiens developed in Africa then spread out?

Accepted Answer

Out of Africa

Question 21

How did slavery differ in West Africa versus the slavery outside of Africa?

Accepted Answer

In Africa, assimilation was possible

Question 22

What nation was the early leader in selling enslaved Africans?

Accepted Answer

Portugal

Question 23

The travel route of slave ships from Africa to the New World was known as?

Accepted Answer

The Middle Passage

Question 24

Nubians took control of Egypt in the 8th century and created an independent nation known as...?

Accepted Answer

Kush

Question 25

What scientific term is used to describe "modern Mankind"

Accepted Answer

Homo sapian

Question 26

How has the Egyptian civilization lasted?

Accepted Answer

5,000 years

Question 27

The nation of Mali reached its peak under which ruler?

Accepted Answer

Mansa Musa

Question 28

What is meant by chattel slavery?

Accepted Answer

Slaves were considered property

Question 29

Which of the following does Africa have much of?

Accepted Answer

Rain Forests

Question 30

What activity was considered crucial to the development of early African empires

Accepted Answer

Trans-Saharan Trade

Question 31

What great African empire began by freeing itself from the Mali Empire?

Accepted Answer

Songhay

Question 32

Which of the following is one way enslaved Africans resisted on slave ships?

Accepted Answer

Suicide

Question 33

The majority of enslaved Africans taken to the United States came from what region?

Accepted Answer

West Africa

Question 34

What was Mali leader Mansa Musa famous for?

Accepted Answer

Pilgrimage to Mecca

Question 35

What forest region African kingdom’s prosperity depended on the slave trade?

Accepted Answer

Benin

Question 36

What was the most famous city in the Mali empire?

Accepted Answer

Timbuktu

Question 37

All of the following are similarities considered to be shared by most African cultures EXCEPT..

Accepted Answer

Vegetarian diets

Question 38

Trade network that involved sending rum to West Africa for slaves.

Accepted Answer

Triangular Trade

Question 39

Which of the following describes life for women in early West African communities?

Accepted Answer

Dominated by men

Question 40

What cultural change led to the uniting of Egypt under the first Pharoah?

Accepted Answer

Abandoned Hunting in favor of Farming

Question 41

What was the key staple in the trans-Saharan trade?

Accepted Answer

Gold

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