Africa Case
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9. What was the impact of the slave trade on Europeans sent to Africa?
Your Answer: Europeans rapidly were dispersed throughout the African nations of the interior, frequently intermarrying with the native population.
Correct Answer: Most died of tropical diseases.
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10. Which of the following was not part of the system of "triangular trade"?
Your Answer: transport of plantation products to Europe
Correct Answer: shipment of North American manufactured products to the Caribbean
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11. Where did most of the centralizing states of central and western Africa form in response to the Atlantic slave trade?
Your Answer: near the Swahili trade cities
Correct Answer: in the interior, along lines of trade to the trade forts, but outside European zones of influence
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12. Which of the following was not a large African state that developed during the period of the Atlantic slave trade?
Your Answer: Asante
Correct Answer: Ghana
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13. Under whose rule was unity achieved among the numerous Akan clans of Asante?
Your Answer: Osei Tutu
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14. In what area of Africa was a plantation economy based on slave labor established?
Your Answer: Dahomey
Correct Answer: the coastal region of East Africa
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15. The Sufi mystic responsible for initiating a religious reform movement among the Hausa kingdoms in 1804 was
Your Answer: Agaja.
Correct Answer: Usuman Dan Fodio.
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16. In 1818 who assumed leadership in the Zulu chiefdom of the Nguni people of southern Africa?
Your Answer: Kebale
Correct Answer: Shaka
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17. The "Middle Passage" referred to
Your Answer: the voyage from Africa across the Atlantic to the Americas.
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18. How were the British colonies of the southern Atlantic coast of North America different from the Latin American colonies?
Your Answer: Britain had no colonies on the southern Atlantic coast of America.
Correct Answer: The British colonies depended less on imported Africans because of the positive rate of growth among the slaves.
The most important of the Portuguese trade forts was __________ in the heart of the gold-producing region.
Your Answer: d
Correct Answer: El Mina
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2. Christian missionaries achieved a major success in the Kongo where the ruler, __________, and the royal family were converted.
Your Answer: h
Correct Answer: Nzinga Mvemba
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3. The foundation of the trade fort at __________ south of Kongo became the basis for the Portuguese colony of Angola.
Your Answer: h
Correct Answer: Luanda
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4. The __________ was chartered to supply a source of slaves for the growing British colonies in Barbados, Jamaica, and Virginia.
Your Answer: h
Correct Answer: Royal African Company
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5. The Spanish developed a complicated system in which a healthy adult male slave was called an "__________," while children and women were valued at fractions of that value.
Your Answer: h
Correct Answer: Indies piece
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6. During some periods there did exist a __________ trade in which slaves were carried to the Americas, sugar and tobacco to Europe, and European products to the coast of Africa.
Your Answer: h
Correct Answer: triangular
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