Chapter 25

Question 0

Black Pioneers

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Question 1

Thomas Peters

Answer 1

West African man who crossed the Atlantic four times. Served as leader of black community in Freetown

Question 2

Gao

Answer 2

Trading city and site of a flourishing city-state built by Songhay rulers

Question 3

Sunni Ali

Answer 3

Songhay ruler who embarked on a campaign to conquer his neighbors and consolidated the Songhay empire

Question 4

Afonso I

Answer 4

Became a devout Roman Catholic and sought to convert all his subjects to Christianity.

Question 5

King Nzinga Mbemba

Answer 5

another name for Afonso I

Question 6

Ndongo/Angola

Answer 6

Grew from a small chiefdom to a powerful regional kingdom. Portuguese merchants founded a small coastal colony here. (aka Angola b/c of the king: Ngola.)

Question 7

Queen Nzinga

Answer 7

Spirite resistance against Portuguese forces for 40 years. (Dressed as a man, preferred to be called king rather than queen)

Question 8

Great Zimbabwe

Answer 8

A massive, stone fortified city (near the city of Nyanda in modern Zimbabwe.)

Question 9

Khoikhoi

Answer 9

Hunting and gathering people’s which Portuguese & Dutch Mariners encountered in Cape Town.

Question 10

Timbuktu

Answer 10

trading city which had a prominent Islamic university and 180 schools that taught the Quran.

Question 11

Fulani

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(Originally a pastoral people who for centuries kept herds of cattle in the Savannas of West Africa.) Thought that a pure form of Islam was better.

Question 12

Dona Beatriz

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Aristocratic woman who proclaimed St. Anthony of Padua had possesed Her & chosen her to communicate his messages. Used her prominence to promote African Christianity.

Question 13

San Dominique

Answer 13

FRENCH sugar colony where a slave revolt (The Haitian Revolution) abolished slavery.