African Diaspora Final Study Guide |
100% Correct Answers | Verified | Latest
2024 Version
Why should the study of African Diaspora begin with the study of African history? - ✔✔One has to begin
with the study of the history and geography of Africa because it not only focuses on the study of people
with African descent worldwide but also the history of people on the mainland
What does African Diaspora mean? - ✔✔The scatter or spread of African people or people of african
descent worldwide
Name the two main places Diaspora Africans have attachments or connections. - ✔✔Africa and their
adoptive country
What are some of the common characteristics of Diaspora groups? - ✔✔They live in marginality in
adopted societies, 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?, They did
travel and established many communities in India and by camels
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?, Muslim Traders
What led to the greatest global dispersion of Africans in history? - ✔✔Atlantic Slave trade
, There are discrete African communities in Muslim societies such as Iran,Iraq, Pakistan and India. -
✔✔TRUE
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
Africa
Explain the W.E.B. Dubois' concept of "Double Consciousness" of peoples of African descent. -
✔✔africans abroad mainted consciousness their homeland and identity while adapting 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.
100% Correct Answers | Verified | Latest
2024 Version
Why should the study of African Diaspora begin with the study of African history? - ✔✔One has to begin
with the study of the history and geography of Africa because it not only focuses on the study of people
with African descent worldwide but also the history of people on the mainland
What does African Diaspora mean? - ✔✔The scatter or spread of African people or people of african
descent worldwide
Name the two main places Diaspora Africans have attachments or connections. - ✔✔Africa and their
adoptive country
What are some of the common characteristics of Diaspora groups? - ✔✔They live in marginality in
adopted societies, 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?, They did
travel and established many communities in India and by camels
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?, Muslim Traders
What led to the greatest global dispersion of Africans in history? - ✔✔Atlantic Slave trade
, There are discrete African communities in Muslim societies such as Iran,Iraq, Pakistan and India. -
✔✔TRUE
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
Africa
Explain the W.E.B. Dubois' concept of "Double Consciousness" of peoples of African descent. -
✔✔africans abroad mainted consciousness their homeland and identity while adapting 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.
