History of Ancient Civilization

DQ: 2. Why does Stanley Burstein’s Ancient African Civilizations stress? DQ: 3. How has Islam influenced Africa? Your feedback on Levtzion and Pouwels’ The History of Islam in Africa. ) DQ: 4. Please evaluate Waterman: The Jihad in Hausaland as an Episode in African History. What does the author stress? DQ: 5. Patricia Romero believes that African women play a very important political, economic and spiritual role. DQ: 6. What were the major differences between the Pre-Civil War Slavery in America and Slavery in Africa discussed in Suzanne Miers and Igor Kopytoff’s article? DQ: 7. What were the major differences between the Atlantic slave trade and the Asian slave trade? What is your assessment of Robert O. Collins’ work on the Asian slave trade? Readings for the fourth quiz DQ: 8. What is your opinion on African “diaspora”? What does Patrick Manning argue in his work, “Diaspora: Struggles and Connections”? Readings for the fourth quiz DQ: 9. Compare the nation-building of Uganda and Zimbabwe? Your comparison must be based on the C. C. Wrigley’s “State Formation in Uganda” and D. N. Beach’s “The Rise of the Zimbabwe State”. DQ: 10. European scholars used to look down up sub-Sahara Africa, considering it black and without civilizations. Having read the textbook, what is your position in face of this kind of bias?            

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