Intro to Black Diaspora Final | 100% Correct
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Who are Beta Israel? Explain their origins and where they were established. - ✔✔Beta Israel are the Jews
of Ethiopia. It is said that Beta Israel are the remnants of the lost tribe of Dan. Furthermore, it is
speculated that Beta Israel was established on the border of what is today known as Nubia and Egypt
between the fifth and seventh centuries.
What were the occupations of Africans in Rome? - ✔✔While in Rome, Africans were presented with a
plethora of occupations such as being musicians, wrestlers, jugglers, boxers, gladiators, actors, day
laborers, athletes, and religious specialists.
True or False: In Antiquity, although surprised "southern Europeans generally did not ascribe any intrinsic
value or worth to skin color, and, unlike contemporary notions of race and racism, did not equate
blackness with inferiority." - ✔✔True
During the Old and the Middle Kingdoms was there slavery in Egypt? Explain in no more than two
sentences. - ✔✔During the Old and Middle Kingdoms, there was slavery in Egypt. The Egyptians
enslaved the Nubians, and in many cases, forced them to join their military, and the amount of enslaved
people they had was not very large.
Who is the author of this statement? "This is the land where men are children. A land lying beyonf the
daylight of self-conscious history and enveloped in black color of the night. At this point, let us forget
Africa for Africa is no historical part of the world." - ✔✔Friedrich Hegel
True or False: Slaves owned by Muslim slavveholders could marry with the owner's consent. - ✔✔True
What of the options below is NOT an African empire - ✔✔Sumer Empire
True or False: In the Muslim world, slaves were not allowed to join the army. - ✔✔False
True or False: "Europeans were just as eligible as Africans, and Slavic and Caucasian populations were the
largest source of slaves for the Islamic world well into the eighteenth century, especially in the Ottoman
Empire." - ✔✔True
, West African gold was exchanged primarily for ____________________. - ✔✔Salt
What is the approximate number of enslaved Africans who arrived alive in the Americas during the
Atlantic slave trade? - ✔✔10,700,000
What was the present-day country in the Americas that imported the largest number of enslaved
Africans during the era of the Atlantic slave trade? - ✔✔Brazil
Which port in the United States imported the largest number of enslaved Africans? - ✔✔Charleston
According to the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database, what was the African port that exported the largest
number of enslaved Africans to the Americas - ✔✔Luanda
What industry caused the development of the Atlantic slave trade to the Americas? - ✔✔Sugar
By the middle of the eighteenth century, _______________________ became the richest British colony
in the Caribbean. - ✔✔Jamaica
True or False: Most Brazilian planters resided in Portugal, and not in Brazil. - ✔✔False
What was the main crop cultivated in plantations using slave labor in the seventeenth-century Brazil and
Caribbean? - ✔✔Sugar
True or False: In Brazil and the Spanish colonies of the Americas, like in the United States, the existing
legislation did not allow manumitting slaves. - ✔✔False
True or False: "Throughout the English-claimed Caribbean, women worked in many of the same
capacities as men, particularly on large plantations." - ✔✔True
True or False: Saint-Domingue, unlike the United States, had a significant free population of color (gens
de couleur). - ✔✔True
Answers | Verified | Latest 2024 Version
Who are Beta Israel? Explain their origins and where they were established. - ✔✔Beta Israel are the Jews
of Ethiopia. It is said that Beta Israel are the remnants of the lost tribe of Dan. Furthermore, it is
speculated that Beta Israel was established on the border of what is today known as Nubia and Egypt
between the fifth and seventh centuries.
What were the occupations of Africans in Rome? - ✔✔While in Rome, Africans were presented with a
plethora of occupations such as being musicians, wrestlers, jugglers, boxers, gladiators, actors, day
laborers, athletes, and religious specialists.
True or False: In Antiquity, although surprised "southern Europeans generally did not ascribe any intrinsic
value or worth to skin color, and, unlike contemporary notions of race and racism, did not equate
blackness with inferiority." - ✔✔True
During the Old and the Middle Kingdoms was there slavery in Egypt? Explain in no more than two
sentences. - ✔✔During the Old and Middle Kingdoms, there was slavery in Egypt. The Egyptians
enslaved the Nubians, and in many cases, forced them to join their military, and the amount of enslaved
people they had was not very large.
Who is the author of this statement? "This is the land where men are children. A land lying beyonf the
daylight of self-conscious history and enveloped in black color of the night. At this point, let us forget
Africa for Africa is no historical part of the world." - ✔✔Friedrich Hegel
True or False: Slaves owned by Muslim slavveholders could marry with the owner's consent. - ✔✔True
What of the options below is NOT an African empire - ✔✔Sumer Empire
True or False: In the Muslim world, slaves were not allowed to join the army. - ✔✔False
True or False: "Europeans were just as eligible as Africans, and Slavic and Caucasian populations were the
largest source of slaves for the Islamic world well into the eighteenth century, especially in the Ottoman
Empire." - ✔✔True
, West African gold was exchanged primarily for ____________________. - ✔✔Salt
What is the approximate number of enslaved Africans who arrived alive in the Americas during the
Atlantic slave trade? - ✔✔10,700,000
What was the present-day country in the Americas that imported the largest number of enslaved
Africans during the era of the Atlantic slave trade? - ✔✔Brazil
Which port in the United States imported the largest number of enslaved Africans? - ✔✔Charleston
According to the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database, what was the African port that exported the largest
number of enslaved Africans to the Americas - ✔✔Luanda
What industry caused the development of the Atlantic slave trade to the Americas? - ✔✔Sugar
By the middle of the eighteenth century, _______________________ became the richest British colony
in the Caribbean. - ✔✔Jamaica
True or False: Most Brazilian planters resided in Portugal, and not in Brazil. - ✔✔False
What was the main crop cultivated in plantations using slave labor in the seventeenth-century Brazil and
Caribbean? - ✔✔Sugar
True or False: In Brazil and the Spanish colonies of the Americas, like in the United States, the existing
legislation did not allow manumitting slaves. - ✔✔False
True or False: "Throughout the English-claimed Caribbean, women worked in many of the same
capacities as men, particularly on large plantations." - ✔✔True
True or False: Saint-Domingue, unlike the United States, had a significant free population of color (gens
de couleur). - ✔✔True
