African Diaspora Quiz 1 | 100% Correct
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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
, 12) 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.
13) 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.
14) "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.
15) Monogenetic Theory - ✔✔States that humans originated from one location.
Define the following in ONLY one sentence according to the lecture.
16) Polygenetic Theory - ✔✔States that humans have multiple locations of origin
Define the following in ONLY one sentence according to the lecture.
17) 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.
18) "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.
19) Egyptologist - ✔✔any archaeologist, historian, linguist, or art historian who specializes in Egyptology,
the scientific study of Ancient Egypt and its antiquities
20) Give three examples of Ancient African Civilization. - ✔✔Ancient Egypt, Nubia, and Kush
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
, 12) 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.
13) 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.
14) "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.
15) Monogenetic Theory - ✔✔States that humans originated from one location.
Define the following in ONLY one sentence according to the lecture.
16) Polygenetic Theory - ✔✔States that humans have multiple locations of origin
Define the following in ONLY one sentence according to the lecture.
17) 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.
18) "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.
19) Egyptologist - ✔✔any archaeologist, historian, linguist, or art historian who specializes in Egyptology,
the scientific study of Ancient Egypt and its antiquities
20) Give three examples of Ancient African Civilization. - ✔✔Ancient Egypt, Nubia, and Kush
