World Cultures Mr. Pendergast
Quiz Review – Africa
QUIZ Format:
I.
“Multiple Choice” – Use
the Chapter Review section to practice.
Questions will not be the
same, but will be similar in format.
II.
“True or False – Without a Twist” – Will be
taken mostly from the “Main Points” section of the “Review Outline.”
III.
“Costs of Development” Essay - You’ll have to use at least 10
“Important Terms” from Chapter 4 to answer the following question:
“How did the ‘arrival of the
Europeans’ effect the history of African cultures?” In your essay, make sure you describe what
these cultures/kingdoms were like before, and what happened to them after the
Europeans came.
Handouts & Exercises:
African
Civilizations Chart – Click for attached completed chart.
African Distress, by Theodore Dwight – Poem about a mother, son and
sister on a slave ship (see handout).
The African Slave Trade
and the Middle Passage - The Terrible Transformation
Review Outline:
Chapter 4 - “African Empires and European
Slave Traders”
1.
LATER AFRICAN CIVILIZATIONS:
a.
i.
Important Terms –
ii.
Main Points – SEE African
Civilizations CHART
b.
Mali & Songhai -
i.
Important Terms –
ii.
Main Points – SEE African
Civilizations CHART
c.
Kanem-Bornu -
i.
Important Terms – Kanem-Bornu, cavalry,
ii.
Main Points – SEE African
Civilizations CHART
d.
Smaller States of
i.
Important Terms – Hausa, Daura, Gobir, Natsina, Kano, Zaria, Kebbi
ii.
Main Points – SEE African
Civilizations CHART
e.
City-States of
i.
Important Terms – Zanj, al-Masudi,
Swahili, Zanzibar, Geti, Pate, Mombasa, Sofala, Kilwa, Ibn Battutah
ii.
Main Points – SEE African
Civilizations CHART
f.
Empire Kingdoms of
i.
Important Terms –
ii.
Main Points – SEE African
Civilizations CHART
g.
Kingdoms of the Interior -
i.
Important Terms – Kongo, Sofala, Karangas, Mutoto, Monomotapa, Great
ii.
Main Points – SEE African
Civilizations CHART
h.
Noncentralized Societies -
i.
Important Terms – consensus, age grades, Ibo
ii.
Main Points –
1.
many Africans lived together without a central ruler or king
2.
body of elders makes decisions
3.
because of their traditions of mutual cooperation and respect,
these societies tended to be more stable than
2.
ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPEANS: Magnet that first attracted Europeans was
riches of
a.
Portuguese Success -
i.
Important Terms – Gold Coast, Diego Cao, Bartholomeu
Diaz, Vasco da Gama, circumnavigated
ii.
Main Points –
1.
Portuguese dream of
reaching
2.
Many wealthy trading cities
looted and destroyed
3.
Eyewitness reports of
wealth attracted many other explorers
b.
Other Europeans -
i.
Main Points –
1.
Portuguese sugar
plantations off East African coast create demand for slaves in the 1400’s
2.
1600’s – English, French,
Dutch, Danes & Swedes challenge Portuguese for control – opened up ports of
their own
3.
Basis of trade switches
from commodities to slaves
c.
Impact on Africa - How did the
European arrival affect
i.
Main Points –
1.
Disturbed traditional trading patterns and established new ones
2.
Decline of kingdoms who
relied on trans-Saharan or
3.
Rise of west African
kingdoms
3.
THE SLAVE TRADE: Slavery and slave trading goe
back to ancient times
a.
Growth of the Slave Trade –
i.
Important Terms –
ii.
Main Points –
1.
Role of two groups - Arabs and Europeans
2.
Role of African collaborators in capturing countrymen – how they
were captured and transported to coast
3.
The Middle Passage
4.
Legacy of slavery in
b.
The End of the Slave Trade -
i.
Important Terms – Alfonso, Industrial Revolution
ii.
Main Points –
1.
African
resistance to slavery
2.
Role of Industrial Revolution in end of slavery
3.
Anti-Slavery Movement and end of slavery -
c.
CASE STUDY: A Slave’s Account -
i.
Important Terms – Ottobah Cuguana
ii.
Main Points – Describes what it’s like in each stage of
enslavement.
1.
Capture
2.
Prison
Slave
Ship