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Factors that led to exclusion to African studies |
They were an inferior race. Impact of slavery and colonialism. Impact of missionaries who devalued African culture. Without history, they contributed nothing to mankind |
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Role of two scholars who helped increase knowledge about African studies |
Jan vanisa: helped validate oral tradition as a valid source of history. Cheika Anta Diop: he critiqued European bias of Africa. His 1951 thesis proved Egyptians were Africans |
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Two ways Carter g woodson contributed to African history |
Father of black history. Reached out to schools and the general public and created negro history week. Believed black history is a form foundation for young black Americans to build on in order to become productive citizens of our society |
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What was in the first institute in the US to establish black studies? What led to this? |
San Francisco state college in 1968. The student activism in the 60s led to this |
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Two areas that contain evidence that African was the birth place of humanity |
Physical environment bc the conditions and constrains of human activity. Climate control bc climate and soils have supported agricultural activities of early humans |
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Ancient history if the Nile valley, what it influenced and why it's important |
It's location was influenced by the communcatjon and trade route across vast and harsh land. It influenced where and how ancient Egyptians settled and built their civilization. It created agricultural land that made civilization possible Step out of our own culture |
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Two most important aspects of African civilization and why their significant |
Middle Nile ancient Nubian civilization bc it supported the region's population, human civilization and economic development Ancient western African civilation bc ghana was popular due to its military power and large reserves of gold |
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Two ways African history and civilization changed misheld conceptions |
"African was said to have no history and contribute nothing to mankind." Saw Africans as an inferior race and researchers carried studies that proved the inferiority of the black race. "History can only focus on human past and anthropology; only on culture and not on culture and government" human knowledge can be constantly added and altered as new evidence is uncovered |
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Physical environment and fossils |
Physical environment is believeable bc it was necessary for human development and also the distribution of the population and resources and without this we would not be alive Fossils are least convincing bc finding an ancestor deep in an south African cage is highly impossible due to the decay of her body and also the ground shifts so life can or cannot be as old as we think it is |
