HIS 203 - African American History 1

1. Discuss ancient African civilizations and their contributions to the world.
2. Explain early interactions between the once equal African and European civilizations.
3. Detail African universities and their world importance.
4. Discuss slavery systems, old world and new.
5. Investigate world events that led to the enslavement of Africa.
6. Enumerate African contributions to the world.
7. Discuss aspects of the Atlantic slave trade.
8. Explain how the profits of slavery enriched many nations but not Africa.
9. Analyze the development of Western racism.
10. Detail how Native Americans were robbed of their land and slaughtered by Europeans.
11. Summarize the true nature of the establishment of so-called “New World” countries.
12. Articulate how non-European people helped America to develop.

1. Africa and the beginning of humankind and early civilizations
2. How African nations became the richest and most powerful before European conquest
3. Traditional African society and cultures       
4. The “discovery” of America and the negative impact on Africa
5. African contributions to world civilization
6. Slave systems, New World and old
7. The development of the Atlantic slave trade and its impact on Africa
8. The destruction and conquest of Africa
9. How the slave trade enriched many European countries
10. The development of Western racism
11. The myths of the settlement of the so-called New World and America
12. The truth of Black participation in all American wars, including the U.S. Civil War

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