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According to David Livingstone what could have made Africa equivalent to Europe?
- Christianany
- Commerce
- Civilization
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In the movie, "The Bible and the Gun" who became the chief advocate of Anglo-Saxon civilization in Africa and the building of a Cape to Cairo empire?
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In the movie "This Magnificent Cake" who coined the saying "I am determined to get my share of this magnificent African cake?
King Leopold of Beligum
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In the movie "This Magnificent Cake" who or what is described as '300 miles long and only 30 miles wide'?
Gambia
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In the movie "This Magnificent Cake" who was described as someone who offered the olive branch (or the option of peaceful co-existence) to the European colonizers?
The French
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The term "monoculture" relates to:
the agriculturel practice of producing or growing one single crop over a wide area
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Which of the following countries is directly associated with Apartheid?
South Africa
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Who were the Afrikaners in South Africa?
Boer subgroup who descended from equal numbers of Dutch, French and German settlers
They speak Afrikaan: germanic language which derives from language which derives from dutch dialect.
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Which of the following countries saw the first large-scale European settlement in Africa?
- It is either:
- South Africa
- Sao Tome
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Who was the chief architect of the ideology of "apartness" or apartheid in South Africa?
Nationalist Party
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Which of the following defines apartheid best?
- Apartness
- Seperate development
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Which of the following ideas is part of Julius Nyrere's African socialism
- Julius Nyrere's socialism:
- A rigorous state of control of the economy
- "equal access for all the fruits of the land labor"
- Rejection of class welfare
- National self-reliance
- An ethic of selfless service that banished personal acquisitiveness and emphasized communal sharing
- Ujama (villagization)
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Which of the following Africa countries became home to pepatriating New World people?
Marcus Garvey - South Africa
Or
Benin? somewhere on the West Coast?
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Which of the following sub-Saharan African countries gained its independence from European rule first?
Ghana
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Which of the following groups or places were the most difficult for the Europeans to colonize?
Zulu?
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The term ujama refers to?
Villagization
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Whose idea was social Africa?
Julius Nyrere also Jomo Kenyatta helped
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In terms of total area which European nation had the biggest colony in Africa?
French or British
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Which aspects of African society did colonialism target and affect at one level of another?
- Religion
- Politics
- Individuals
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Which of the following countries successfully defended itself from European colonialism?
Ethiopia
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Whose policy was "assimiliation"?
French (Senegal)
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In the quest for independence which colonies saw the emergence of armed liberation struggles?
Algeria
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Whose policy was "indirect rule" in Africa?
British
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Regionally speaking which parts of Africa saw larger European settlements?
Northern/ Northwestern Africa
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Is a discrete brand of imperialism by which a state imposes its administrative control over people of another culture
Colonialism
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Which of the following powers lost its African colonies early?
Great Britain
or
United States?
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Which of the following paths led African countries to independence from European colonial rule?
- Many Factors:
- Wilsonian self determination
- Pan-African and black rights movement
- International developments in post-WWII era
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Which of the following West European powers did not have colonies in Africa at all?
- West European powers that did have colonies:
- Britain
- French
- Portugese
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Which of the following terms best characterize the relatively peaceful "granting" of independence of African colonies?
Decolonization
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Which of the following battles represented a major defeat of European colonialism in Africa?
- Battle of Adwa
- ---In Ethiopia
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Which of the following inventions/strategies or problems faciliated European conquest and rule in Arica?
- Inventions/Strategies
- Leopold's notion of Magnicent African Cake (1865)
- The Discovery of diamond in South Africa(1867)
- Opening of Suez Canal (1869)
- The Berlin Confrence (1884)
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Which of the first generation of African leaders sought to embrace the Victorian creed for his country?
Jomo Kenyatta
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Which crops saw their expansion most as a result of the colonial economy?
- Sugar
- Tobacco
- Cotton
- Gold
- Diamonds
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What is the number one sport in Africa?
Soccer
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What does "chubaro" mean?
????
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What do the decades 1880s and 1960s represent in African history?
Independence the begining and end
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Which of the following African regions is rich in mineral wealth such as diamonds and gold?
South Africa
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What themes dominated African history during the second half of the twentieth century?
- The themes include:
- High population growth
- Natural liberation
- Economic growth followed by decline
- Conflict and greater instability
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To whom do we associate the saying "seek ye first the political kingdom and all things shall be added unto you"?
Mathew 6:33
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One way in which the colonizers tried to entrice Africans to go out and work in European farms was through
Taxes
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Which of the following statements is correct about the transatlantic slave trade?
Some facts about the TAST:
Small during 16th C., accelerated during 17th C., during 18th C. it peaked
For sugar production
used slaves from Africa
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Which of the following regions imported the least number of slaves due to the Atlantic slave trade?
Eastern African side
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The phrase the "middle passage" represents
The section in the atlantic where slaves were transfered from Africa to the New World (Brazil, Latin America, North America, etc.)
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Which of the following crops was not important in the era of the Plantation Economy in the New World?
Less important crops (ex. banana vs. tobacco.... banana would be answer
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Which part of Africa was most directly affected by the Atlantic slave trade?
Southwestern, Western and Southeastern Africa
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Which of the following places served as a slave port at the time of the Atlantic slave trade?
somewhere western side
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Is the one crop that defined most the slave-based tropical plantation in the Americas
Sugar
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Why didn't the Europeans utilize native Americans as slave labor?
- Reason why Native Americans were not used for slave labor:
- They knew land, made it easier for them to escape
- many diseases that they were not immune to, so they died
- wasn't physically enough of them
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What is voluntarily becoming a dependent to another person during a time of famine or other catastrophe to avoid death or as a way of escaping poverty? (the person can also choose to leave the relationship)
Pawnship
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Which of the following areas imported the largest number of African slaves for plantation work?
- Brazil and Caribbean (80%)
- Latin America (15%)
- North America (5%)
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Amilcar Cabral
- Nationalist from the movie
- -Guiena
- -Fighting Portugeuse
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Direct Rule
European aims & means of administration
French (Assimilation, modern law and working w/ “superior” races
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Leopold Senghor
- First president of Senegal
- Came up with idea of Negritude
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Battle of Adwa
- Between Ethiopia vs. Italy
- March 1 1896
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Rhodesia
Named after Cecil Rhodes for the British South African Company aquired the land in 19th C.
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Kwame Nkrumah
Ghana (peaceful transfer)
- o First African country south of Sahara to become independent
- o Kwame Nkrumah’s role (led them to independence)
- o Nkrumah formed the Convention People’s Party (CPP) in 1949
- o Decolonization through coordinated mass action
- o Gandhi’s use of mass nonviolent protest in India and the U.S. experience in mass democracy
- o Nkrumah’s party won elections from 1951 and he became the first head of independent Ghana in 19577
(this led the way of many other countries demanding independence)
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Nelson Mandela
- President of South Africa
- Apartheid
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African Reactions to Colonialism
- · Negotiation and compromise
- · Military encounters: the case of Emperor Menilek of (Ethiopia) [p282-284]
- · Separate Sphere: Religion, Politics and Individuals
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Bantustans
South African Afrikaaner
- · The proponents:
- o The races of the world embodied important cultural differences
- o Racial groups were best kept physically separated from one another
- o Physical separation would enable reach race to develop its own genius uncorrupted by alien influence.
- o A central white state encircled by Bantustans (township residents)
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Negritude
Négritude is a literary and ideological movement, developed by francophone black intellectuals, writers, and politicians in France in the 1930s by a group that included the future Senegalese President Léopold Sédar Senghor, Martinican poet Aimé Césaire, and the Guianan Léon Damas.
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Cecil Rhodes
- Ø Thousands of European began migrating to south Africa for diamonds
- Ø One of them was an 18 yr old Englander Cecil Rhodes
Ø Rhodes (founded company) pitched his tent at the sited called New Rush, near a farm purchased by diggers for 600 pounds from farmers Johannes and DeBeers – company for diamond mining
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Ghana
- o First African country south of Sahara to become independent
- o Kwame Nkrumah’s role (led them to independence)
- o Nkrumah formed the Convention People’s Party (CPP) in 1949
- o Decolonization through coordinated mass action
- o Gandhi’s use of mass nonviolent protest in India and the U.S. experience in mass democracy
- o Nkrumah’s party won elections from 1951 and he became the first head of independent Ghana in 19577
(this led the way of many other countries demanding independence)
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