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Before 1500
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What is the word used to describe the "great scattering" of African people from their communities in Africa to other parts of the world?
What is Diaspora
100
Name the formal religion practiced by most residents of Songhai during the period between A.D. 500 and 1600.
What is Islam
100
This country sent sailors out to explore the coast of West Africa. Under the sponsor- ship of Prince Henry the Navigator, in 1441, they captured no less than ten Africans people as “gifts” to Prince Henry. Name the country.
What is Portugal
100
Africans were members of the expedition of Pedro Mendez that founded the oldest city in the United States. Name the city.
What is St. Augustine, Florida
100
The history of African Americans, in what was to become the United States, began when a Dutch ship anchored off Jamestown, Virginia in 1619. Captain Jope is believed to have exchanged his cargo of Africans for food. How many Africans were exchanged?
What is 20
200
The continent of Africa is bounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea to the east. A narrow strip of land in its northeast corner connects it to the Arabian Peninsula and beyond that to Asia and Europe. How does Africa rank in physical size in relation to other conti- nents?
What is second
200
In the ancient African empires of Ghana and Mali, what metal was especially important to their growth and power?
What is gold
200
The Portuguese and Spanish sailors, in the mid 1400s began frequent raids of West African coastal countries such as Senegal, Guinea, Ghana, and the Ivory Coast to cap- ture Africans and sell them to the wealthy. By 1449, it is believed that about how many Africans lived in Portugal alone?
What is about 900
200
In 1522, where did the first major rebellion by enslaved Africans occur in the Americas?
What is Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic today)
200
In 1621, this small European country created a company that almost immediately challenged Portugal's control of the slave trade in Africa. By the mid 17th century, it had taken control of the major trading routes in the Americas and the Caribbean. It was these traders who brought the first Africans to the French Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe. Name this country and the company that controlled the slave trade at the time.
What is Holland and the Dutch West India Company
300
There is evidence that Africans came to the Americas as early as the 8th century. Sculptures reflecting African influence are found in several towns in Mexico. Name the civilization or culture in Mexico that reflects African influence.
What is Olmec culture
300
What major river valley contributed to the social, economic, and political growth of three ancient African empires--Ghana, Mali, and Songhai?
What is Niger River Valley
300
In 1481 a West African ruler gave the Portuguese permission to build a trading outpost in what is today the country of Ghana. This outpost, built in 1482, became the first of many “slave factories” built by Europeans along the west coast of Africa. Hundreds of thousands of captives were packed into this trading outpost until they were crammed and shackled onto Portuguese and Spanish (and later Dutch and English) ships. Name this trading outpost.
What is Elmina Castle
300
In 1526, enslaved Africans rebelled in a Spanish territory that later became an English colony and then a state of the United States. Name it.
What is South Carolina
300
In 1623, the first black child was born in the American colonies. He was born to Isabella and Anthony Johnson. He was born free because neither of his parents was enslaved. Name him.
What is William Tucker
400
In West Africa three great empires emerged between A.D. 500 and 1600. Each had a powerful army and controlled great wealth. Name these powerful African empires.
What is Ghana, Mali, and Songhai
400
Although it is said that about two-thirds of the gold used to mint coins in Europe and the Arab world came from the Songhai region, another mineral was sometimes more precious than gold to the people of Songhai. What was this mineral?
What is salt
400
Blacks were among the first explorers of the Western Hemisphere. In 1492, an African was the pilot of the Santa Maria, one of Columbus' ships. Name him.
What is Peter (Pedro) Alonzo Nino
400
Estevanico, a famous black explorer and guide, explored territory that became these two states of the United States. Name them.
What is Arizona and New Mexico
400
In 1627, tobacco exports soared from 180,000 to about 500,000 pounds pounds in this year alone. Tobacco was the important cash crop for several colonies. This English ruler was heard to say that Virginia was “wholly built on smoke.” Name the ruler who said this.
What is King Charles I
500
Two African leaders transformed a small African state on the upper Niger River to the great empire of Mali. One ruler began the process, but growth was initially slow. Mali grew considerably faster after the1300s when a new ruler came to power, and most particularly when he returned from a pilgrimage to the holy land of Mecca. He direct- ed his architects to design great buildings in Timbuktu and other cities under his con- trol. Afterwards, the empire grew into a strong political and economic society. Name these two leaders.
What is Sundiata Keita (began process) and Mansa Musa
500
During the period between A.D. 500 and 1600, what great city in Songhai grew to have a population of more than 100,000 residents and had a business, religious, and intel- lectual center?
What is Timbuktu
500
In 1502, what country was the first to bring a cargo of enslaved Africans into the Western Hemisphere?
What is Portugal
500
Enslaved Africans brought a popular string musical instrument to America in the 17th century. Few African Americans play it today. Name the instrument.
What is banjo
500
In 1634, farmers in the Chesapeake Bay region imported white and black indentured servants and later, enslaved Africans to profitably grow this crop. It became an impor- tant export crop because of its popularity in Europe. In Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina, vast areas were devoted to this crop. Plantation owners imported large num- bers of enslaved blacks to cultivate it, dry its leaves, and pack it for transport to the market. Name this crop.
What is tobacco