African Diaspora Final Exam | 100% Correct
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Why the study of African Diaspora should begin with the study of African history? - ✔✔African history
because it is the place of origin and without it there would be no African Diaspora.
What does African Diaspora mean? - ✔✔the scattering and spreading of African peoples
Name the two main places Diaspora Africans have attachments or connections. - ✔✔original homeland
and adopted country
What are some of the common characteristics of Diaspora groups? - ✔✔maintain connection to their
original homeland
What are some of the myths European had about Africa and peoples of African descent? - ✔✔Ham's
children would be Black, Ugly, Lazy, and They would become servants to his children of his brother
because of the curse
Did Africans travel outside Africa before the Atlantic slave trade, if so, how and where? - ✔✔yes, India
and by camels or Mecca
Name some places where Africans were carried outside of Africa as slaves by Muslim traders before the
Atlantic Slave Trade. - ✔✔Ghana trade for gold, ivory, indigo, and slaves to Arabs and Arabs traded salt
and leather to Ghana
Who took Africans as slaves and sailors to the Mediterranean World, Eastern Europe, the Middle East,
and Asia? - ✔✔Arabs
What led to the greatest global dispersion of Africans in history? - ✔✔Atlantic Slave Trade
Some of the enslaved Africans who settled in India served as administrators, guards, sailors, and soldiers.
- ✔✔True
, Who were the Siddis and Habshis in India? - ✔✔Africans and descendants of Africans who settled in
India
Black Africans were taken as slaves to India from East African Coast, which is also called "Swahili Coast." -
✔✔true
The Islamized African communities called the Habshi existed in India before the first Portuguese sailor
Vasco Da Gama arrived there in 1498. - ✔✔true
The named Habshi derived from what word? What word that originally referred to Ethiopians but later
applied to all blacks - ✔✔Abyssinian
In the early 14th century AD, an Arab scholar called Ibn Battuta wrote that the Habshis were employed
as guards, military men, and personal security. - ✔✔true
Which area of Africa is considered the original homeland of majority of African Americans? - ✔✔West
coast
Explain the W.E.B. Dubois' concept of "Double Consciousness" of peoples of African descent. -
✔✔africans abroad mainted consciousness their homeland and identiy while adopting to new societies
of the New World. W.E.B Dubois
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? - ✔✔led to development. it said that any and everything of civlized value ever found in Africa
was brought here by Hamitic or Caucasian race.
Explain the "Out of Africa" theory in the development of humankind. - ✔✔study shows that man first
lived in Africa before migrating to other parts of globe referred as Out of Africa theory
Explain the "Multiregional Continuity Hypothesis." - ✔✔attempts to explain not only the origin of Homo
sapiens, but also the existence of anatomical diversity in modern geographical populations.defends the
side that represents no single origin for modern humanity
Answers | Verified | Latest 2024 Version
Why the study of African Diaspora should begin with the study of African history? - ✔✔African history
because it is the place of origin and without it there would be no African Diaspora.
What does African Diaspora mean? - ✔✔the scattering and spreading of African peoples
Name the two main places Diaspora Africans have attachments or connections. - ✔✔original homeland
and adopted country
What are some of the common characteristics of Diaspora groups? - ✔✔maintain connection to their
original homeland
What are some of the myths European had about Africa and peoples of African descent? - ✔✔Ham's
children would be Black, Ugly, Lazy, and They would become servants to his children of his brother
because of the curse
Did Africans travel outside Africa before the Atlantic slave trade, if so, how and where? - ✔✔yes, India
and by camels or Mecca
Name some places where Africans were carried outside of Africa as slaves by Muslim traders before the
Atlantic Slave Trade. - ✔✔Ghana trade for gold, ivory, indigo, and slaves to Arabs and Arabs traded salt
and leather to Ghana
Who took Africans as slaves and sailors to the Mediterranean World, Eastern Europe, the Middle East,
and Asia? - ✔✔Arabs
What led to the greatest global dispersion of Africans in history? - ✔✔Atlantic Slave Trade
Some of the enslaved Africans who settled in India served as administrators, guards, sailors, and soldiers.
- ✔✔True
, Who were the Siddis and Habshis in India? - ✔✔Africans and descendants of Africans who settled in
India
Black Africans were taken as slaves to India from East African Coast, which is also called "Swahili Coast." -
✔✔true
The Islamized African communities called the Habshi existed in India before the first Portuguese sailor
Vasco Da Gama arrived there in 1498. - ✔✔true
The named Habshi derived from what word? What word that originally referred to Ethiopians but later
applied to all blacks - ✔✔Abyssinian
In the early 14th century AD, an Arab scholar called Ibn Battuta wrote that the Habshis were employed
as guards, military men, and personal security. - ✔✔true
Which area of Africa is considered the original homeland of majority of African Americans? - ✔✔West
coast
Explain the W.E.B. Dubois' concept of "Double Consciousness" of peoples of African descent. -
✔✔africans abroad mainted consciousness their homeland and identiy while adopting to new societies
of the New World. W.E.B Dubois
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? - ✔✔led to development. it said that any and everything of civlized value ever found in Africa
was brought here by Hamitic or Caucasian race.
Explain the "Out of Africa" theory in the development of humankind. - ✔✔study shows that man first
lived in Africa before migrating to other parts of globe referred as Out of Africa theory
Explain the "Multiregional Continuity Hypothesis." - ✔✔attempts to explain not only the origin of Homo
sapiens, but also the existence of anatomical diversity in modern geographical populations.defends the
side that represents no single origin for modern humanity
