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African Diaspora Quiz: Comprehensive Study Guide with Answers, Quizzes of History

Morgan State University (MSU)History

A comprehensive study guide for the african diaspora, covering key concepts, definitions, and historical events. It includes multiple-choice questions with answers, definitions of important terms, and a detailed overview of the african diaspora's history and impact. This resource is valuable for students seeking to deepen their understanding of the african diaspora and its significance in global history.

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African Diaspora Quiz 1 | 100% Correct
Answers | Verified | Latest 2024 Version
1) What does Diaspora mean? - ✔✔scattering or spreading worldwide globally
2) Diaspora people refers to who? - ✔✔peoples who live outside of their original homeland
3) Name two places diaspora peoples maintain their connection to. - ✔✔their country of origin and their
adopted country
4) State one reason diaspora study has become much more important today. - ✔✔crisis around the
globe: wars, fragmentation of states/countries, and displacement of peoples
5) State one characteristic of diaspora groups. - ✔✔They live in marginality in adopted societies
6) What is the meaning of the African diaspora? - ✔✔The communities throughout the world that are
descended from the historic movements of peoples from Africa
7) In studying African Diaspora History one has to begin with what and why? - ✔✔African history
because it is the place of origin and without it there would be no African Diaspora.
8) State one reason why it is complex and difficult to study African Diaspora history. - ✔✔Africans have a
long history of being sterotyped
9) Name two Muslim societies outside Africa that have discrete African communities. - ✔✔Iran and Iraq
10) Name one service some of the enslaved Africans who settled in India performed. - ✔✔They guarded
concubines
11) What were the known names for Africans and descendants of Africans who settled in India? -
✔✔Siddis Habishi
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  1. What does Diaspora mean? - ✔✔scattering or spreading worldwide globally
  2. Diaspora people refers to who? - ✔✔peoples who live outside of their original homeland
  3. Name two places diaspora peoples maintain their connection to. - ✔✔their country of origin and their adopted country
  4. State one reason diaspora study has become much more important today. - ✔✔crisis around the globe: wars, fragmentation of states/countries, and displacement of peoples
  5. State one characteristic of diaspora groups. - ✔✔They live in marginality in adopted societies
  6. What is the meaning of the African diaspora? - ✔✔The communities throughout the world that are descended from the historic movements of peoples from Africa
  7. In studying African Diaspora History one has to begin with what and why? - ✔✔African history because it is the place of origin and without it there would be no African Diaspora.
  8. State one reason why it is complex and difficult to study African Diaspora history. - ✔✔Africans have a long history of being sterotyped
  9. Name two Muslim societies outside Africa that have discrete African communities. - ✔✔Iran and Iraq
  10. Name one service some of the enslaved Africans who settled in India performed. - ✔✔They guarded concubines
  11. What were the known names for Africans and descendants of Africans who settled in India? - ✔✔Siddis Habishi
  1. What region of Africa did European slave dealers take most of the African slaves? - ✔✔West Coast Define the following in ONLY one sentence according to the lecture.
  2. Hamitic Hypothesis - ✔✔Religious based/supported belief that all black people were descendants of Ham and were to be slaves of nonblacks. Define the following in ONLY one sentence according to the lecture.
  3. "Out of Africa" Theory - ✔✔Man first lived in Africa before migrating to other parts of Africa. Define the following in ONLY one sentence according to the lecture.
  4. Monogenetic Theory - ✔✔States that humans originated from one location. Define the following in ONLY one sentence according to the lecture.
  5. Polygenetic Theory - ✔✔States that humans have multiple locations of origin Define the following in ONLY one sentence according to the lecture.
  6. Louis and Mary Leakey - ✔✔They discovered the oldest manlike skeleton in 1950 in Oldovai Gorge in Tanzania. Define the following in ONLY one sentence according to the lecture.
  7. "Multiregional Continuity Hypothesis" - ✔✔Complete opposite of "Out of Africa Theory". Argues that our earliest hominid ancestors radiated out from Africa and Homo sapiens evolved from several different groups of Homo erectus in several places throughout the world. Define the following in ONLY one sentence according to the lecture.
  8. Egyptologist - ✔✔any archaeologist, historian, linguist, or art historian who specializes in Egyptology, the scientific study of Ancient Egypt and its antiquities
  9. Give three examples of Ancient African Civilization. - ✔✔Ancient Egypt, Nubia, and Kush
  1. State three ways people became slaves in traditional African society. - ✔✔captives of war, found guilty in traditional court, being a debtor
  2. What is the title of your history text book? - ✔✔The African Diaspora Experience Who took Africans as slaves and sailors to the Mediterranean World, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Asia? - ✔✔Muslim Traders What led to the greatest global dispersion of Africans in history? - ✔✔Atlantic Slave trade Explain the W.E.B. Dubois' concept of "Double Consciousness" of peoples of African descent. - ✔✔African peoples remain consciousness of their homeland and origin while in adopted countries. What country in West Africa was founded for the settlement of former American slaves who returned to Africa in the 1820s? - ✔✔Liberia What is the "Hamitic Hypothesis" and how Europeans used it to justify the enslavement of Black Africans? - ✔✔Religious justification of slavery - States that all black people were descendants of Ham and were to be slaves on nonblacks. State how important was the Nile River to Ancient Egyptian. - ✔✔Ancient Egyptians depended solely on the Nile River for subsistence: water, farming, and religious beliefs What was the name of the Ancient Egyptian system of writing? - ✔✔Hieroglyphic writing Name the two main sources of African History. - ✔✔written and unwritten What was the name of trade between Arabs and Black Africans across the Sahara? - ✔✔Trans-Saharan trade What is the difference between slavery and slave trade? - ✔✔Slavery is the system in which an individual or group of people are controlled/belittled by another, while slave trade is the purchasing and or selling of slaves.

Describe the indentured servants brought from Europe to the Americas. - ✔✔They signed contracts to provide service in return for the passage, some were fleeing restriction of feudal system. Why were Africans brought to the New World? - ✔✔Africans were robust for plantation labor compared to Native Americans were weak and could only take care of maze. How slave trade contributed to the underdevelopment of Africa? - ✔✔The men and women removed from Africa were skilled and talented, which robbed Africa of the knowledge necessary for development of a human society. Why free mulattoes were of higher social status than free blacks in slave society in the Caribbean? - ✔✔The were the closest to being white. Under what condition a child fathered by a slave master became free after the death of his/her father in Brazil? - ✔✔If the father recognized him/her as his child Why is it necessary to study the history of African Diaspora Women separate from the history of women in general? - ✔✔To understand their perspective, and experiences relating to issues and events in history Name the fugitive slave community that was established in Brazil. - ✔✔Palmares What was the name fugitive slaves gave to their community in Mexico and used the name as a rallying point for resistance? - ✔✔Mandinga What is the meaning of Marronage? - ✔✔the condition of living as a fugitive slave Why the French considered Saint Dominque important as a colony? - ✔✔France depended on Saint Dominque for nearly 2/5 of it's foreign trade as a colony. How the American Revolution inspired revolution in Haiti? - ✔✔The Haitian desire for self-governance was strengthened after the American colonies won independence from England

Who was the Emperor of Ethiopia at the time of the Italian invasion? - ✔✔Haile Selassie What is the meaning of OAU? - ✔✔Organization of African Unity Where is the headquarters of OAU located? - ✔✔Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Identify Jomo Kenyatta and Kwame Nkrumah. - ✔✔Led Kenya to independence. Led Ghana to independence. What is the meaning of ACS? - ✔✔American Colonization Society Why and when was ACS founded? - ✔✔Send free African Americans to Africa as an alternative to emancipation in the US. 1816 Why some black leaders supported and some opposed the idea of emigration of black Africans to Africa?

  • ✔✔ Names two black leaders who supported or opposed the Back-to-Africa movement. - ✔✔W.E.B. Dubois and Marcus Garvey Why African Americans deserved or not deserved reparations for over three centuries of slavery? - ✔✔Other groups such as the Jews received reparations after being maltreated (the Holocaust)