African Diaspora UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers

Where's Segu - On the Niger/Joliba River What's Timbuktu like? - Capital of trade, similar to NYC Garifuna - Africans in Central America, N.A., Canada, ~200,000 total Deal w/ Mexican Burials - 180 people. In 2006, a construction crew landed upon a church burial site and found bodies with strontium in their teeth particular to Africa, as well as decorative marks on their teeth that are stereotypically African. Other evidence dates these bodies as from 1550, marking the earliest remains of slaves in the New World. Also suggests these were the first generation of Africans i the area Ottoman Empire - Turkish, controlled the lands slaves had to travel through to get to Europe, so the Ottoman empire was a middle man until technology developed D'Jenre - like the Islamic Vatican