Problem
1) What type of societies did African communities have and how did they function?
2) What were some achievements of African societies?
3) List the strengths and weaknesses of a stateless society
4) Why is it difficult to explore the history of Africa?
5) How did the intellectual revolution start in Mali? How did this transform their civilization?
6) How did the charter generation emerge?
7) What was life like for Creoles in Africa?
8) Why were Creoles valuable and vulnerable?
9) What factors shaped this (Charter Generation) form of slavery?
10) What was life like for Creoles in the Americas?
11) Why did Europeans start to view Africans as inferior
12) How did Europeans cement racism in the Americas?
13) How was American slavery different from previous forms of slavery?
14) What impact did scientific racism have on white individuals?
15) Why did the African slave trade intensify?
16) How did Africans become slaves?
17) Discuss the trauma Africans experienced during the middle passage.
18) What was the middle passage?
19) How did Africans resist the slave trade?
20) What was the slave trade?
21) How did slavers justify the middle passage?
Define:
• Ghana
• Trans Sharan trade
• Mali
• Mansa Musa
• Timbuktu
• Songhai
• City States
• Mosque
• Kinship
• Kilwa
• Failed State
• Complex Society
• Tribal Society
• Creoles
• Anthony & Mary
• Factories
• Go Between
• Samuel Morton - Skulls
• Josiah Nott
• Hume and Kant
• Bigotry
• Xenophobia
• Racism
• Prejudice
• Nathaniel Beacon
• Tobacco
• Chattel Slavery
• Age of Enlightenment
• Slave Trade
• New Art of War
• Commodification
• Pan-African Identity
• Social Death
• Interior Africans
• Zong Slave Ship.