Global Systems and History
This describes a ranked system where people or groups hold different levels of power.
What is Hierarchy?
A 3-part trade route connecting, Europe, Africa and America.
What is Triangular Trade?
A African title which simply means "king".
What is "Mansa".
A system where people are treated as property.
What is Chattel Slavery?
He was a formerly enslaved African whose autobiography exposed the brutality of slavery.
Who is Olaudah Equiano?
Acronym for "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion"
What is DEI?
A system of beliefs and values that shapes how we see the world.
What is Ideology?
The forced movement of Africans to the Americas.
What is TransAtlantic Slave Trade?
He was the Islamic scholar who wrote in Arabic about his life as a slave.
Who is Omar Ibn Said?
A person working under a temporary labor contract.
What is an Indentured Servant/Slave?
She was an activist with the Black Liberation Movement. She recently died in Cuba.
Who is Assata Shakur?
This describes groups of people who have been historically mistreated and prejudged because of their race, identity or gender.
What are Marginalized Groups?
A judgement or prejudice about someone or something.
What is Bias?
The brutal sea journal that enslaved Africans had to experience.
What is the Middle Passage?
Which empire was Mansa Musa the emperor of?
What is the Mali Empire?
Laws designed to control or restrict enslaved people's movements and behaviors.
What are Slave Codes?
This national museum preserves African American history and culture.
What is the Black Smithsonian?
This terms describes the ability to recover or "bounce back" from hardships.
What is Resilience?
Explain how one's ideology can influence the creation of social structures (r.ules, systems, institutions)
Ideology influences the creation of social structures by acting as a guiding belief system for how society should be organized.
People with power use their shared ideologies to design rules, institutions, and systems.
An economic system where wealth and power are increased by increasing exports and decreasing imports.
What is Mercantilism?
Explain how Omar Ibn Said's writings challenged the stereotypes about enslaved Africans.
He demonstrating their high levels of education, rich cultural backgrounds, and deep spiritual lives.
This describes a group of enslaved people chained together during forced marches.
What is a Coffle?
A story that blends historical facts with fictional characters - like in Copper Sun.
What is Historical Fiction?
This is a discriminatory housing practice that denied loans to Black neighborhoods.
What is Redlining?
This term refers to how prejudices can shape historical narratives.
What is Bias?
Explain the difference between raw materials and manufactured goods.
Raw materials are natural resources. Manufactured goods are processed goods, or what is made from the natural resources.
This term refers to the global spread or dispersal of African people.
What is African Diaspora?
The process of stripping away human qualities to justify opression.
What is Dehumanization?
A literary techniques that hints at future events.
What is Foreshadowing?
This term describes racism that is reframed to sound less harmful.
What is Sanitized Racism?