AFST 235 Final Exam Questions With Correct Answers
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AFST 235 Final Exam Questions With
Correct Answers
Original Rice Coast - answerbroad area of West Africa where rice cultivation is essential to
cultural identity and subsistence
new Rice Coast - answertraditions of rice cultivation brought from West Africa to US low
country south
women - answ...
AFST 235 Final Exam Questions With
Correct Answers
Original Rice Coast - answer✔broad area of West Africa where rice cultivation is essential to
cultural identity and subsistence
new Rice Coast - answer✔traditions of rice cultivation brought from West Africa to US low
country south
women - answer✔the traditional role of rice cultivation is on
rice cultivation - answer✔a complex knowledge system brought to the americas by enslaved
West Africans
rice cultivation/research bias - answer✔scholars have routinely assigned the establishment of rice
cultivation in West Africa to the Portuguese (as a transplant crop from Asia), based on
widespread beliefs that Africans were incapable of sophisticated technological developments
African vs. Asian - answer✔two separate species of domestic rice
inland delta of the niger river - answer✔center of domestication of African rice
1068 - answer✔islamic scholar al-Bakri noted abundance of rice along the Niger (prior to the
arrival of Portuguese)
14th century - answer✔Ibn Battutu noted the abundance of rice on the Niger River in Mali
85 varieties - answer✔knowledge system with - varieties of seeds for different needs - flooding,
seasonal salinity, acidity, drought etc
Rice knowledge system - answer✔--- was translpanted to americas during the Middle Passage;
slave ship records show rice being purchased to feed slaves during the voyage
1587 - answer✔rice technology was firmly established in Brazil
South Carolina - answer✔at the end of the 17th century rice was being cultivated for sale
60 million pounds - answer✔amount of rice exports from South Carolina annually
Antebellum Rice economy - answer✔produced the richest planters of the US south, 1600
plantations
plantation owners - answer✔were aware of afrian regions and ethnicities and specifically
requested captives with knowledge in rice cultivation
basket weaving - answer✔same techniques in used in ones Charleston as in ones found in West
Africa
task system - answer✔slaves had bargaining power with planters due to their knowledge, giving
them control over the
Saharan salt mines - answer✔long history of slave labor use
muslim merchants - answer✔went across Sahara for sub-saharan africans due to need of non
muslims to sell
8th-9th centuries - answer✔over --- 5 million africans transported across Sahara to be sold
Internal African Slavery - answer✔mostly war captives who were incorporated or ransomed
back
11th century - answer✔--- on, new idea of selling captices
islamic rulers - answer✔based on southern fringes of Sahara, would conduct raids specifically to
obtain captives for muslim traders
continued into 20th century - answer✔trans-saharan trade --- but never on the scale of trans-
atlantic trade
1470s - answer✔Portuguese arrival to west africa
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