Mcq

Question 1

Why did the indigenous people migrate to the Americas from their homeland

Answer 1

Following herds if deer that they hunted

Question 2

Which island were both the tainos and kalinagos found in 1592

Answer 2

Trinidad

Question 3

The Mayan wrote using a type of writing called

Answer 3

Hieroglyphs

Question 4

The major crop of both the making is and tainos was

Answer 4

Cassava

Question 5

Why did many Kalinago women speak the Taino language

Answer 5

Taino women wear often captured by Kalinago warriors

Question 6

What cultural traditions fid both the Kalinagos and Tainos practice

Answer 6

They flattened their foreheads of their babies

Question 7

Which group of islands were the Tainos found in 1492

Answer 7

Cuba , Hispaniola, Puerto Rico

Question 8

The relationship between the Kalinagos and Tainos were mainly

Answer 8

Warfare

Question 9

Which European nation enjoyed a legacy of exploration before Columbus sailed to the new world

Answer 9

Portugal

Question 10

The Mayan civilisation was found in?

Answer 10

Central America

Question 11

Which island was the first to be settled by the English

Answer 11

St. Kitts/ St. Christopher

Question 12

Which century err the English most successful in establishing settlements int he Caribbean

Answer 12

Seventeenth

Question 13

The narrow strip of water that separates the two lane masses is the

Answer 13

Bering Strait

Question 14

Which nation brought to the Eastern Caribbean their expertise in sugar production in the seventeenth century

Answer 14

Dutch

Question 15

The sugar revolution in the British WEST indies brought with it a political change from

Answer 15

Proprietary system to the Old Representative System

Question 16

The orient refers to

Answer 16

India to china

Question 17

Which groups of items did the European use for the purchase of Africans in the Save Coast

Answer 17

Gunpowder, iron pots, beads

Question 18

Which ports were British slave ships most likely to visit during the 1700s

Answer 18

Kingston

Question 19

What was not a navigational instrument that helped with the Age of Discovery

Answer 19

Musket

Question 20

The agent of an European trading in West Africa was called

Answer 20

Barracoon

Question 21

What was the Taino leader called

Answer 21

Cacique

Question 22

The Deficiency Act was enacted to control

Question 23

The maroons were enslaved Africans who

Answer 23

Ran away from sugar plantations

Question 24

The term barracoon is best associated with the

Answer 24

Housing of captive persons in the African coast

Question 25

The change from tobacco to sugar in the West Indies took place in the

Answer 25

Mid-sixteen century

Question 26

Sugar was grown most economically in British West Indies on

Answer 26

Mountainous terrain

Question 27

The maya were more skilful than the Tainos and Kalinagos in

Answer 27

Constructing stone buildings

Question 28

Where did the Europeans find that Maya living in

Answer 28

Belize

Question 29

What did the Spaniards bring to the Caribbean

Answer 29

Horses

Question 30

What was the main interest of the Dutch in the Caribbean in the 17th C.

Answer 30

Controlling the trade of the English and French colonies

Question 31

The slave trading posts set up along the west African coast were called

Question 32

When was the anti slave founded

Answer 32

1787

Question 33

When was the transatlantic trade in Africans abolished

Answer 33

1807

Question 34

How was the Kalinago chief chosen

Answer 34

For his prowess

Question 35

What was the name of the Kalinago chief

Answer 35

Ouboutou/ubutu

Question 36

The quadrant

Answer 36

Used to measure the distance the ship traveled

Question 37

The astrolabe

Answer 37

Used to measure distance and direction/ the altitude of the sun, moon and stars

Question 38

The magnetic compass

Answer 38

Used for finding the horizontal direction

Question 39

The society for Effecting the Abolition of The Slave Trade was formed in what year

Answer 39

1787

Question 40

What year was Act to abolish the slave trade in Britain passed

Answer 40

1807

Question 41

What year was the London society for the mitigation and gradual abolition of slavery formed

Answer 41

1823