Social Science

Dates and Other

100

Early hominid fossil records found in Africa are as old as...?

a. 9 million years

b. 8 million years

c. 7 million years

d. 6 million years

e. 5 million years

d. 6 million years

200

Kwame Mkrumah became the first president of independent what?

a. Ghana

b. democratic republic of the congo

c. Nigeria

d. Somalia

e. Algeria

a. Ghana

300

The big rivalry in Mali is between which regions?

a. east and west

b. central and coastal

c. north and south

d. industrial and agriculturial

e. european and african

c. north and south

400

Many africans argue they are entitle to reparations, which was a precendence set by the...

a. german Holocaust victims

b. vertans that were forced into the french army during WWII

c. South Africans after apartheid ended

d. japanese after the two atomic bombings

e. Native americans and Japanese americans

e. Native and Japanese americans

500

The ECOWAS is the

a. economic organization of west african states

b. economic organization of west and south

c. eastern coalition of war and stability

d. effective coalition of west african states

e. equitable charities of world affairs

a. economic organization of west african states

places

100

Africa is often referred to as the

a. father continent of humanity

b. founding continent of humanity

c. mother continent of humanity

d. first continent of humanity

e. pangea of humanity

c. mother continent of humanity

200

The Nile valley has 

a. 3 distinct regions: lower egypt, upper egypt and Namibia

b. 2 distinct regions: lower egypt and upper egypt

c. 3 distinct regions: Lower egypt, upper egypt and Nubia

d. 2 distinct regions: eastern egypt and western egypt

e. 3 distinct regions: lower egypt, middle egypt, and upper egypt

c. 3 distinct regions: lower egypt, upper egypt and nubia

300

Egypt's first centralized government was called the what?

a. Pharoah's kingdom

b. old kingdom

c. new kingdom

d. memphis

e. middle kingdom

b. old kingdom

400

All of the following countries attended the berlin conference EXCEPT who?

a. germany

b. great britain

c. belgium

d. poland

e. turkey

d. poland

500

The sugar plantation in the Atlantic World was founded by the...

a. portugues on the canary islands

b. portugues in Madeira

c. portugues in west africa

d. spanish on the canary islands

e. spanish in Madeira

b. portugues in madeira

events (1)

100

The original purpose of the pyramids was to be a what?

a. vault for the pharoh's fortune

b. military lookout

c. demonstration of the vast territory under a pharaoh's  control

d. holding silo for grain in reserve for famine years

e. tomb for the pharoh

e. tomb for the pharoh

200

when large state formed in West africa, they were based on the control of revenue from long-distance trade due to the absnese of what?

a. large, concentrated cities

b. access to Atlantic seacoasts

c. major rivers and adequate rainfall

d. villages to raid for the transatlantic slave trade

e. strong central governments like in Egypt

c. major rivers and adequate rainfall

300

"Throwing the cowries" is a form of divination, which is...

a. a form of communicating with the spirit world of deities and ancestors

b. paying homage to ancestors that have already passed to the afterlife

c. a preparation soldiers used for invoking blessings before going into battle

d. using art to convey a religious message

e. asserting dominance after a successful battle by enslaving the captured rivals

a. a form of communicating with the spirit world of deities and ancestors

400

the overall belief of the Sunnis was that the caliph

a. had to be a direct descendent of Ali and Mohammad's daughter Fatima

b. needed to prove he was in direct conversation with Allah before being able to lead the faith

c. could be any rightly guided muslim

d. must live in Mecca

e. should surround himself with spiritual leaders called ayatollahs for spiritual guidance.

c. could be any rightly guided muslim

500

the spirit of muslims into the sunnis and shias was mainly over

a. whether Mohammed was the true messenger of allah

b. who was qualified to be the caliph

c. where the holy land should be for true muslims

d. whether the Qur'an should include books from the old and new testament

e. whether slavery should be allowed within the muslim empire

b. who was qualified to be the caliph

events (2)

100

all of the following were factors that enter hinto human decisions about how to abtain food EXCEPT what?

a. housing conditions

b. climate

c. level of technology

d. effort required

e. available alternatives

a. housing conditions

200

traditional african religion believes a person who has passed is considered "living departed" and only becomes completely dead when what happens?

a. more than 10 years has passed since his or her death

b. their children have all passed

c. sufficient offerings have been made at his or her tomb

d. their widowed spouse remarries

e. the last person who knew him or her also dies

e. the last person who knew him or her also dies

300

the slave ship Sao Joao Bautista was significant because

a. it sank while crossing the middle passage and all lives on board perished

b. there was an uprising similar to the amistad but without as much notoriety

c. 20 africans debarked from at port comfort, virginia

d. it was the last slave ship to deposit cargo in brazil before the slave trade was abolished

e. its captain decided to free the cargo rather than delivering it to mexico.

c. 20 africans debarked from at port comfort, virginia

400

european slave traders were able to put pressure on the african counterparts to accelerate the traffic in humans with improved technology with

a. germ warfare

b. slave ships

c. communication devices like the telegraph

d. guns

e. canons

d. guns

500

immedietly following the independenc of Nigeria in 1960, the country

a. devolved into internal conflict and inconsistency that lasted at least through 1999

b. split into two independent countries which still exists today

c. fought a brief civil war which the christians won and restored stability

d. became a model for decolonization and modernization for other newly independent african countries

e. focused on infrastructure which made in one of the economically independent countries in africa

a. devolved into internal conflict and inconsistency that lasted at least through 1999

People

100

the German author of "philosophy of HIstory" that serves as a source of western fantasies about africa was

a. adolf hitler

b. hugh trevor-roper

c. charles darwin

d. georg wilhelm friedrich hegel

e. augustine of Hippo

d. georg wilhelm friedrich hegel

200

the religious group largely responsible for the foundation of racism that is so widespread toward africa today were the 

a. roman catholics

b. jews

c. puritans

d. anabaptists

e. calvinists

e. calvinists

300

the greek historian who offered valuable insights about africans in the nile region's diets was

a. ptolemy

b. herodotus

c. darwin

d. aristotle

e. phidippides

b. herodotus

400

all of the following are true of mahammad ibn Abdallah EXCEPT he

a. was around twenty years old when he received his first revelation

b. was the founder of Islam which is one of the three greet monotheistic religions attributed to the patriarch abraham

c. was from a prestigious clan

d. was illiterate for his entire life

e. ended the practices of female infanticide and a man marrying a women as he pleased

a. was around 20 years old when he received his first revelation

500

Orthodox christians who follow the Nicene Creed include all of the following EXCEPT

a. catholics

b. greek orthodox

c. jews

d. protestants

e. russian orthodox

c. jews