CHHI 300 Quiz World Christianity II
CHHI 300 Quiz: World Christianity II
- Many European missionaries died from disease.
- According to the line agreed to by Spain and Portugal, Spain received control of most of the Americas and Portugal of Africa.
- Most Latin American countries achieved independence in the 1800s.
- Christianity south of the Sahara first penetrated into Africa along the coasts.
- The Sudan Interior Mission began work in western Africa in the early 1900’s.
- Christianity did not reach western Africa until the 1600’s.
- More African slaves went to Brazil than to the United States.
- Christians were persecuted in Uganda in the 1800s.
- World Christianity is witnessing a drive toward indigenization of Christianity.
- The first Protestant missionary to Nigeria was from the Church of England.
- The Spanish were able to maintain control of the West Indies until World War II.
- Many African countries gained their independence in the 1940s, right after the end of World War II.
- While the Portuguese first explored Africa in the late
1400s, Protestant European countries dominated by the end of the 1800s. - Match the region to its description.
- The English established forts and churches along the Gambia river as early as the 1400’s.
- The first Catholic Council in Latin America occurred in the 1500s.
- Pentecostalism was not very popular in Latin America.
- Protestantism has always dominated in Africa, especially since no Catholic country was able to dominate African colonization.
- In 1537, the pope issued a bull that stated that Native Americans did have souls.
- Christopher Columbus brought missionaries with him on his first trip to the “New World.”