AFST 235 Final UPDATED Actual Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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AFST 235
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AFST 235
AFST 235 Final UPDATED Actual Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
original Rice Coast - CORRECT ANSWER- broad area of West Africa where rice
cultivation is essential to cultural identity and subsistence
new Rice Coast - CORRECT ANSWER- traditions of rice cultivation brought from West
Africa ...
AFST 235 Final UPDATED Actual Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
original Rice Coast - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔broad area of West Africa where rice
cultivation is essential to cultural identity and subsistence
new Rice Coast - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔traditions of rice cultivation brought from West
Africa to US low country south
women - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔the traditional role of rice cultivation is on
rice cultivation - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔a complex knowledge system brought to the
americas by enslaved West Africans
rice cultivation/research bias - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔two separate species of domestic rice
inland delta of the niger river - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔center of domestication of African
rice
1068 - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔islamic scholar al-Bakri noted abundance of rice along the
Niger (prior to the arrival of Portuguese)
14th century - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Ibn Battutu noted the abundance of rice on the
Niger River in Mali
, why rice - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔desertification from 300bc-300ad; rice flourishes
where millet/sorghum fail
long handled shovel - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔what was designed specifically for rice
cultivation
translated rice plants - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔instead of directly sowing seeds into the
floodplain, growers
seasonal rotation - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔after rice harvest, cattle moved into fields to
graze on crop residue, cattle manure would fertilize soil for next crop
85 varieties - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔knowledge system with - varieties of seeds for
different needs - flooding, seasonal salinity, acidity, drought etc
Rice knowledge system - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔--- was translpanted to americas during
the Middle Passage; slave ship records show rice being purchased to feed slaves during the
voyage
1587 - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔rice technology was firmly established in Brazil
South Carolina - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔at the end of the 17th century rice was being
cultivated for sale
60 million pounds - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔amount of rice exports from South Carolina
annually
Antebellum Rice economy - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔produced the richest planters of the
US south, 1600 plantations
plantation owners - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔were aware of afrian regions and ethnicities
and specifically requested captives with knowledge in rice cultivation
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