Why and how did Arab and European powers dominate sub-Saharan African societies?
What will be an ideal response?
Discuss the comparative technological and military disadvantages that sub-Saharan Africa suffered including trade and intellectual connections with the rest of Eurasia, as well as Africa’s scarce arable land, exploitable minerals, and good harbors.
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In the United States in the mid-nineteenth century,
a. the Republican Party was dedicated to abolitionism. b. southerners argued that slaves and industrial workers were treated equally. c. popular sovereignty resolved the problem of slavery in the United States. d. the Democratic Party became identified with the southern planters and their interests. e. the slavery issue in America had produced a strong sense of nationalism.
Abraham Lincoln’s plan of Reconstruction
a. allowed Congress to determine when the southern states had been reconstructed. b. was rejected by all the southern states. c. required 10 percent of a state’s voters to take a loyalty oath. d. required 50 percent of a state’s voters to take a loyalty oath. e. was rejected before it could be implemented.
The first president of post-apartheid South Africa was
a. F. W. de Klerk. b. Nelson Mandela. c. Mangosuthu Buthelezi. d. Thabo Mbeki. e. Desmond Tutu.
José de San Martín helped to form independent ________
A) Mexico B) Brazil C) Rio de la Plata D) Peru