Brazil and the Caribbean Quiz
* What was “reconquista” about
* It was when the Christian kingdom recaptured the Iberian peninsula from the Muslims
* How did Portugal gain an empire in brazil?
* The Treaty of Tordesillas, designed to divide the Atlantic between spain and Portugal
* Portuguese mariners were blown to south America by a major storm in the atlatic.
* Which of the following caused the largest number of deaths among native Americans in the colonial period of brazil and the Caribbean
* Diseases such as smallpox
* From the 1580s, the importation of Africans to brazil increased dramtically due to a new econmic cycle
* Due to the expansion of the sugar industry, Africans soon constituted over two thirds of the peopulation of the north east
* Slavery has always been based on race
* False
* By the late 17th century another new economic cycle again increased the demand for African slaves in brazil
* The discovery of gold in Minas Gerais further increased the demand for slave labor
* The opening up of the damond deposits in the early 18th century increased the demand for Africans from the asante and Dahomey regions. Why?
* They were often more familiar with mining methods than their masters
* What is the liturgical language of the syncretic afro-brazilian relgion candomble?
The Term Paper on The Great African Americans Migration 1910 to 1920s
By the turn of the nineteenth century, the number of African Americans living in the living in the United States was approximated at almost nine million. Of the estimated figures, ninety percent of the African Americans lived in the South where they constituted almost a third of the total population of the region. Around a fifth of them were said to live in the urban areas while four out of every ...
* It is archaic form of Yoruba, passed down orally by successive genrations of priests
* Which of the following was a result of the Columbian exchange
* Native Americans were infected by many European diseases
* What was the brazilian quilombo? How it help retain African cultural traditions.
* Its the region where brazilian slaves escaped to. It was also the place where they were able to practice the customs and religions freely
* It was the region where the brazilian slaves excaped to where they can practice their customs and religions freely.
* What was capoeira
* It was martial arts but disguised by the brazilian slaves as a simple dance.
* It was maritial arts but disguised by slaves as a simple dance.
* According to mercantilism, what would strengthen the mother country
* Providing needed raw materials
* Which of the following statemtns about slavery in Europe before 1450 is most accurate
* Slavery started to die out during the middle ages in most of Europe except in eastern Europe and along the military frontier between the Christian and muslim empires in the Mediterreanean
* Where did the Portuguese get their frist ideas and technology for creating sugar plantations
* From mediterranian sugar plantations
* From mediterrean sugar plntations
* Of African salves transported to the Americas, what was the largest group
* Males aged 15 to 35
* What kind of slave codes dveoloped in English Caribbean
* The british left English slaveholders in the Caribbean essentially to their own devices resulting in virtually unlmited powers to masters
* what were the two top regions that most of these transported Africans ended up
* Carribean
* Brazil
* Which resources or commodities initially contributed most to the ecnomic success of the Barbados colony
* Tobacco
* What solution to a collapse in the market for their main crop did Barbadians come up with in the middle 1600s
* Barbadian planters made cur tract with people fleeing from brazil and a successful transparence of the sugar industry took place
The Term Paper on Findleys God Noah Gods People
Bible And Literature: The Flood Narrative Analyzed In The Style Of Northrop e Frye (Timothy Findley Used As A Critic/Commentary) The flood as found in Genesis is a multidimensional and an archetypal source of metaphor and myth. The flood is an example of metaphorical and mythological language that provides foundational constructs upon which other aspects of the Biblical text and other works can be ...
* Barbian planters made contact with those trying to escape and a temperance of the sugar industry emergenced.
* How was Vodou intricately connected to the star tof the Haitian revolution
* Most important Vodou meeting was Bois Caiman of august 1791that lead to revolution it pushed people to libertian
Show how African religions survived uner Christianity in the Caribbean. You may use the Cuban or Haitian examples.
* Africa
* God Creater
* Territoral spirits Ancestoral spriits
* —————————————————
* doctor diviners
* ordinary people
* the world
* Carribean
* God Creater
* Other Gods
* Territoral spirits Ancestoral spiritis
* ————————————————-
* religious leaders
* regular people
* the world
* Africans disguised their gods as Christian saints so it would appear to their masters that they were worshipping slaves when it was really their own gods/s spritis.
* Describe the social hierarchy of the typical sugar estate in the british craibbean focusing on the positions and interactions of the various groups.
* The engish people were at the top of they system and were the masters fo slaves. The british masters were the had comfortable lives while the slaves were poor. The slave women were treated as sexual objects and the owners did whatever they wanted ith them. Sicne there was a high demand for slaves, the white population started to decrease and the black population started to increase. The slaves would work all day and have little comfortable tiem not like their owners
* Only got half credit
* WHITES
* Varies from the richest plantation owners to the whites with no land
* Thy were looked as the best class the highest class on the social hierachy
The Essay on For God So Loved The World
For God So Loved the World Even though I was only a small child, I remember the cold, fall day that I accompanied my father to a nearby cemetery. As we stood above three tiny graves, I recall the tears streaming down my fathers face and the anguish in his eyes. My father was reluctant to explain why we were there for fear that I was just too young and innocent to understand the horrid ...
* FREE COLOURED AND FREE BLACKS
* Usually one unwilling parent
* The free blacks didn’t want to associate with the black population however they still felt discriminated against.
* SLAVES
* Lowest level of the social hierarchy.. they
* Largest group
* They felt like inferior
* In only one colony were the slaves able to destroy a plantation system and establish their own society.
* Which colony?
* Saint domingue
* When did the revolution begin
* 1791
* when did they declare formal independence and rename their country
* 1804
* wat was the name of the new country
* Haiti
* Label the elements of the triangle trade on this map.
* From new world to Europe they traded raw material
* From Europe to Africa they traded manufactured goods
* From Africa to new world they traded slaves
* Know how to label this on the map
* RMS
* Raw materias, manucfacutred goods, slaves
* Explain how Africans religions managed to survive under Christianity in the Americas
* The Africans disguised their gods as if they were Christian saints so that when they came to worship the saints they were actually worshipping their gods.
* Name three afrian traditions that Caribbean planters tried to prevent African enslaved people from practicing
* Religious/cultural practices
* Martial arts/ dancing
* Ethinic rituals
* Add more
* How was vodou intricately connected to the start of the Haitian revolution?
* Idk
* What does the treatment of the irish in Barbados in the 1600s indicate babout English ideas about bondage labor
* Anyone (irish included) that was thought of as “different” were considered fair game for slavery and harsh treatment
* Desribe three African traditions and explain how the enslaved populatiosn maintained these aspects fo their culture
* Religion
* They formed hybrids of ancient Yoruba practices passed down orally by priests; they also hid their god/spirits under the guise of saints, also incoproortaed native spirits
The Essay on The Slave Trade
The Slave Trade The slave trade of the 15th-19th century is an example of the largest migration in the history of the world. This forced migration turned out to be the event that influenced the historical process until now. Although the slavery derives from the ancient world, the transatlantic slave trade appears to be the largest in its scale and amount of people involved. Approximately 12 ...
* Language
* They formed a hybrid of their ancient niger congo based language and other languages used in the new world
* Culture
* They continued practice of ritual music and chanting and dancing, also disguised marital arts as a dance
ONLY GOT THREE FOURTHS OF A POINT
* During the Haitian revolution, desribe two ways in which African women aided the fight for libration
* They practiced espionage, spying on the enemy posing as prostituties. As nurses, they aided rebel solders and killed enemy soldiers. They also produced their own crops and food supply near the battle field.
