Africa Geography
This is the number of internationally recognized countries in Africa
What is 54?
Africa includes thousands of distinct peoples, languages, and these cultural practices passed across generations.
What is traditions?
East Africa’s location encouraged trade across this ocean.
What is Indian Ocean?
He helped establish a tobacco variety that became profitable in European markets.
Who is John Rolfe?
This labor arrangement required service for a specified number of years.
What is Indentured servitude?
This term describes beliefs and practices that create or maintain racial inequality.
What is racism?
This body of water borders Africa to the east.
What is Indian Ocean?
The Kingdom of Axum developed in this East African region.
What is Horn of Africa?
Many Native communities in Virginia’s Coastal Plain belonged to this political organization.
What is Powhatan paramount chiefdom?
The White Lion arrived at this Virginia location in late August 1619.
What is Point Comfort?
This system legally treated people as property, unlike temporary indentured servitude.
What is chattel slavery?
This institution served as Virginia’s representative colonial legislature.
What is House of Burgesses?
This semi-arid zone lies between the Sahara and the Savanna.
What is Sahel?
He was Mali’s most famous ruler.
Who is Mansa Musa?
England attempted to establish a colony at this location before Jamestown.
What is Roanoke?
John Rolfe used this phrase to describe the number of Africans carried by the White Lion.
What is 20 and odd?
He received lifetime servitude after escaping with two White servants in 1640.
Who is John Punch?
Virginia’s 1639 weapons law excluded men identified by this racial category from the general weapons requirement.
What is Black?
This environment has grasslands, scattered trees, and wet and dry seasons.
What is Savanna?
Scientific evidence identifies this continent as the origin of modern humans.
What is Africa?
Wealth, power, and this belief system were the three broad motives for European exploration and colonization.
What is religion?
Virginia lacked a comprehensive set of these racial laws in 1619, making the arrivals’ exact legal status difficult to determine.
What is slave codes?
Virginia’s 1662 law made a child’s legal status follow this parent.
What is mothers?
Under Virginia’s 1643 tax law, Black women became tithable at this age.
What is sixteen?
This river supported settlement, agriculture, transportation, and trade in West Africa.
What is Niger River?
The Kingdom of Kush developed mainly along this river.
What is Nile River?
This language group was concentrated in Virginia’s Tidewater and Coastal Plain.
What is Algonquian?
He was the first named child of African descent born in English Virginia.
Who is William Tucker?
Virginia’s 1667 law declared that this Christian sacrament did not change enslaved status.
What is baptism?
Virginia’s 1672 law protected the use of force against enslaved people who resisted this action.
What is capture?