AAST 215 Final Exam - Prof. O – EWU questions well answered

AAST 215 Final Exam - Prof. O – EWU
questions well answered

Researchers have found that Africans were the first humans to engage in the iron smelting
process to make tools and other functional items. (True or False) - correct answer ✔✔True



Originally, the status of free or slave for Black children could be determined if their mother
converted to Christianity and was free, but laws were enacted which ensured the enslavement
of Blacks regardless of their mother's conversion to Christianity. (True or False) - correct answer
✔✔True



Maroons were Africans who helped White enslavers capture other Africans. (True or False) -
correct answer ✔✔False



Sexual intercourse between Black and White couples produced perhaps as much as 1/4 to 1/3
of the children born out of wedlock in Maryland and Virginia during the 1600s. (True or False) -
correct answer ✔✔True



Tunka-Menin was the most important leader of the West African kingdom of Ghana. (True or
False) - correct answer ✔✔False



"Breaking in" or the "seasoning process" was the name of the training process for which Whites,
who helped to control Blacks on plantations, had to go through before they were permitted to
oversee Blacks. (True or False) - correct answer ✔✔False



On the continent of Africa, Africans enslaved other Africans for life and considered them chattel
(human cattle or property) the same way Europeans enslaved Africans. (True or False) - correct
answer ✔✔False

, White enslavers attempted to make White indentured servants, poor Whites, and Native
Americans (so-called Indians) slaves before they singled out Africans for slaves. (True or False) -
correct answer ✔✔True



Based on their belief in the primitive cultural development of Africans, European's initial (first)
interest in Africa was to acquire African slaves. (True or False) - correct answer ✔✔False



One historian estimates that the number of enslaved Africans transported from Africa during
the Middle Passage was as high as 12.5 million. (True or False) - correct answer ✔✔True



15 percent of Blacks died in the first 3 to 4 years during the "seasoning" or "breaking in"
process. (True or False) - correct answer ✔✔False



Gold was an important part of the economic prosperity of Ghana. (True or False) - correct
answer ✔✔True



White leaders in colonial America became afraid of poor Whites and Blacks joining in protest
and rebellion of their mistreatment by the leadership class. Because of instances such as
Bacon's Rebellion and the murders in New York in 1741 of poor Whites and Blacks based on
rumors of rebellion resulted in strict laws that separated Blacks and Whites to break up class-
based organizing. (True or False) - correct answer ✔✔True



Bishop Bartolomeo De las Casas argued for Africans to be brought into the Caribbean Islands to
replace the "Indians" as slaves. (True or False) - correct answer ✔✔True



The African explorer who opened up Florida for Spain is Estevanico/Esteban/Estevan. (True or
False) - correct answer ✔✔True



The first twenty Blacks in Jamestown, Virginia were classified as servants/indentured servants.
(True or False) - correct answer ✔✔True