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question 37

Multiple Choice

Use the following to answer questions :
-cowrie shells

• A)An item of personal property; a term used in reference to enslaved people that conveys the idea that they are subhuman, like animals, and therefore may be treated like animals.
• B)Among the societies of Senegambia, groups of teenage males and females whom the society initiated into adulthood at the same time.
• C)The title of the king of Benin.
• D)A settlement in the western Sahara, the site of the main salt-mining center.
• E)Major branch of the nomadic Berber peoples who controlled the north-south trans-Saharan trade in salt.
• F)Imported from the Maldives, they served as the medium of exchange in West Africa.
• G)Orthodox form of Christianity from Egypt practiced in Ethiopia.
• H)Meaning "People of the Coast," the term used for the people living along the East African coast and on nearby islands.
• I)Enslaved Africans' horrific voyage across the Atlantic to the Americas under appalling and often deadly conditions.
• J)A collection or batch of British goods that would be traded for a slave or for a quantity of gold, ivory, or dyewood.
• K)A process for exchanging goods in which European ships sent boats ashore or invited African dealers to bring traders and slaves out to the ships.

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Definitions:

Privileged Backgrounds

Refers to individuals who come from socio-economically advantaged families, providing them with opportunities and advantages that are not available to everyone.

Southern

Pertaining to or characteristic of the South, a region in the United States known for its distinct cultural, historical, and social traits.

Greensboro Sit-in

A civil rights protest in 1960 where African American students sat at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, demanding service.

Arms Race

A competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons, especially between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.