[en] Quiz!

[FrankishHero]

8, iirc.

[C-F]

:nono: memory getting 'fuzzy' hmm? - Too many girls on your mind?...:wink: :rofl:

[catt]

Twelve

[C-F]

As I said, too easy...:silly: :wink:

Your turn catt :go:

[catt]

Look, here are even the names. :biggrin:

http://www.watersablaze.com/uploads/triomphe.JPG

[C-F]

:lol: Which one is your favorite?...:biggrin:

[catt]

I have never been there... :bawling:

But the Champs-Elysees is in my Monopoly-game. :lol:
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Actually... come to think of it NONE is my favorite. Seeing traffic like that on a map alone is a nightmare. I am already mortally afraid of having to drive around the Berlin Victory Column, and that's just tiny compared to the Arc de Triomphe...

Name a page in "my book" and that'll be the next question...

[C-F]

:offtopic:
:scratch: hmm, Ronneburg, Paris, Ronneburg, Paris,....:dwink: :naughty:

There is also the Seine...:wink:

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[catt]

C-F: I don't get it....


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Next question:

When were the first black slaves brought to America? (This is NOT about Native American Slaves!)

A) 1506
B) 1510
C) 1573
D) 1602
E) 1635
F) 1689

[catt]

I'll give you a hint: Columbus landed in America in 1492... :rofl:
(The Mayflower landed in 1620 btw.)

[C-F]

well, none of the years I found match any of the choices given.

So I'll guess E) 1635...:confused:

[catt]

E is wrong...

Maybe my book is a different one than yours? :lol:
I chose the spaces between times long enough so it should not be dependent on a couple of years.

And I'm talking about America. :wink:

[C-F]

Well, as I said the only once I could find are:

a) Portuguese traders brought the first African slaves for agricultural labor to the Caribbean in 1502.

a) The first record of African slavery in Colonial America is of a Dutch ship which brought twenty blacks recorded and sold them to the English colony of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619 as indentured servants.

and

c)The story of the slaves in America begins with Christopher Columbus. His voyage to America was not financed by Queen Isabella, but by Luis de Santangelo, who advanced the sum of 17,000 ducats (about 5,000 pounds-today equal to 50,000 pounds) to finance the voyage, which began on August 3,1492.

Columbus was accompanied by five 'maranos' (Jews who had foresworn their religion and supposedly became Catholics), Luis de Torres, interpreter, Marco, the surgeon, Bemal, the physician, Alonzo de la Calle and Gabriel Sanchez. (Ref. The International Jew by Henry Ford)...

???? :huh:
according to this it should be 1492...

[catt]

Maybe my book is wrong? :eek: :scratch:

That would be a pity, it's a 2005 edition...


But the magnitude more or less fits.

b) that would be COLONIAL America. :wink:

c) Those were Jewish slaves, not African ones. :wink:

[C-F]

So that would put it between 1502 and 1506 pending who found trhe typo and counting the Caribbean to America....

[catt]

The people in Chile always got horribly upset when you said "America" and meant the USA... :wink:

[C-F]

:lol:
Thats why one should always mean what they say...:wink: :biggrin:

[catt]

I usually do but it seemed they were just waiting for some foreigner to say "America" so they could correct you. Even if you meant the whole huuuge long seaway-to-India barrier. :lol:

[Kuno of Gersenau]

B) 1510?

I know that LasCasas first supported this idea to improve the living conditions of the Indios who suffered deeply undert the rule of the Conquistadores. And I know that he lived in the 16th century therefore some slaves might have been brought already over there to America.
Later on he was against the use of black salves as well when he realized that the pain is just handeled to another group of humans...

[catt]

Not according to my book... :sad: