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African Culture

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1. Arab
Cape Town and Johannesburg in South Africa
ethnic group that inhabiting Arabia and other countries of the Middle East and northern Africa
an event where a boy goes off for months to train - educate - and understand
Nationalism (shared identity - history - and destiny)

2. What power are elderly women believed to possess in African society?
If honored - society will benefit. If ignored - destruction may occur.
The belief that there are spirits present in animals - plants - and other natural forces
Push factor are negative things about a land - Pull factors are positive things about a land
Kenya - Zanzibar - Tanzania

3. In the slave trade - what were African slaves traded for to the Europeans?
Used for ceremonies - Believed to hold ancestor spirits - Headdress - Face masks - Helmet - Body masks - Horizontal
The carve a fertility statue that encourages the spirits to 'stay' in her world instead of being reborn in another
Guns to obtain more slaves
Swahili beliefs that spirits can posess a person and there is a close link between their religious beliefs and the practice of medicine and healing

4. Non-centralized government
Angola - Congo
Tribes use councils or elders to represent best interests
Guns to obtain more slaves
If honored - society will benefit. If ignored - destruction may occur.

5. What is the difference between a push and a pull factor?
The carve a fertility statue that encourages the spirits to 'stay' in her world instead of being reborn in another
Push factor are negative things about a land - Pull factors are positive things about a land
Africa was filled with valuable things (rubber - palm oil - wood - etc...)
Cape Town and Johannesburg in South Africa

6. What is an Age-Rite ceremony?
Black Africans and people of European descent
exploitation
Mauritania
an event where a boy goes off for months to train - educate - and understand

7. What does 'scarification' represent?

8. In childhood - where does the child spend most of his/her first years with?
Guns to obtain more slaves
Used for ceremonies - Believed to hold ancestor spirits - Headdress - Face masks - Helmet - Body masks - Horizontal
Kenya - Zanzibar - Tanzania
The mother

9. What is quinine?
To have a baby
Southern tip of Africa - came for slaves and to farm
A medication that helped Europeans survive malaria to continue colonizing Africa.
The father's to learn how to survive

10. What do Africans consider twins as?

11. Who held the Berlin Conference and how many nations were invited?
Europeans felt their religions and culture were superior
A ceremony/event that decides whether one is still a boy or is prepared to become a man
people found in the modern country of Ghana - in west africa - and who are known for their artful weaving and colorful asasia - or kente cloth.
Otto von Bismarck; 14 nations came

12. What are 'bride-wealth' gifts?

13. Located in West Africa
Tribes use councils or elders to represent best interests
Mauritania
The mother
Arabs and Berbers

14. In African society - who picks the spouse for a woman/girl?
the father
a mask ceremony
Kenya - Zanzibar - Tanzania
Belgium

15. In childhood - where does the child move to before puberty?

16. What is a gerontocracy?
It is used by various ethnic groups in East Africa as the language of business and communication
when authority is held by the elders of the group
the belief that everything has a soul; and you should respect what you have and treat it well
Used for ceremonies - Believed to hold ancestor spirits - Headdress - Face masks - Helmet - Body masks - Horizontal

17. What are Africans' main method of communication?

18. African Masks
Gifts given from the groom's family to the bride's family upon marriage.
The mother
If honored - society will benefit. If ignored - destruction may occur.
Used for ceremonies - Believed to hold ancestor spirits - Headdress - Face masks - Helmet - Body masks - Horizontal

19. Name the three main groups of people of European ancestry in Southern Africa.
If honored - society will benefit. If ignored - destruction may occur.
Used for ceremonies - Believed to hold ancestor spirits - Headdress - Face masks - Helmet - Body masks - Horizontal
Angola - Congo
1. British settlers - English 2. Afrikaners - Dutch settlers - Afrikaans 3. Portuguese settlers - Portuguese

20. In African society - what item do most have in their homes dedicated to a certain family?
To have a baby
Gifts given from the groom's family to the bride's family upon marriage.
The belief that there are spirits present in animals - plants - and other natural forces
a shrine

21. Ashanti
people found in the modern country of Ghana - in west africa - and who are known for their artful weaving and colorful asasia - or kente cloth.
Cape Town and Johannesburg in South Africa
Swahili beliefs that spirits can posess a person and there is a close link between their religious beliefs and the practice of medicine and healing
Belgium

22. Why did Southern Africa attract Europeans?
Covers 40% of Africa
people found in the modern country of Ghana - in west africa - and who are known for their artful weaving and colorful asasia - or kente cloth.
Southern tip of Africa - came for slaves and to farm
a shrine

23. How is death responded to in African culture
when authority is held by the elders of the group
it is celebrated
No. If done - the boy who gets the girl pregnant most provide compensation to family.
Kenya - Zanzibar - Tanzania

24. Located in Central Africa
Angola - Congo
Griots. Griots are essentially 'storytellers' because only few African societies had written languages.
The carve a fertility statue that encourages the spirits to 'stay' in her world instead of being reborn in another
the monotheistic religion of Muslims based on the teachings of prophet Muhammad as laid down in the Koran. The second largest religion in the world.

25. Located in North Africa
the southern edge of the Sahara Desert
Morroco - Egypt - Libya
Mauritania
marks made on masks to represent monster's teeth

26. Animism
the father
the belief that everything has a soul; and you should respect what you have and treat it well
the most widely spoken Bantu languages; people and culture found on the coast of east Africa.
a shrine

27. What is the savanna?
Covers 40% of Africa
If honored - society will benefit. If ignored - destruction may occur.
marks made on masks to represent monster's teeth
the most widely spoken Bantu languages; people and culture found on the coast of east Africa.

28. What was a political motive as to why Europeans took over Africa?
To have a baby
Push factor are negative things about a land - Pull factors are positive things about a land
Nationalism (shared identity - history - and destiny)
the father

29. Located in East Africa
when authority is held by the elders of the group
Gifts given from the groom's family to the bride's family upon marriage.
the southern edge of the Sahara Desert
Kenya - Zanzibar - Tanzania

30. What is initiation?
A ceremony/event that decides whether one is still a boy or is prepared to become a man
Otto von Bismarck; 14 nations came
Tribes use councils or elders to represent best interests
a shrine

31. What key objective was in the minds of each and every European colonial power?
ethnic group that inhabiting Arabia and other countries of the Middle East and northern Africa
Morroco - Egypt - Libya
exploitation
the father

32. Why is African immigration so important?
1. British settlers - English 2. Afrikaners - Dutch settlers - Afrikaans 3. Portuguese settlers - Portuguese
Used for ceremonies - Believed to hold ancestor spirits - Headdress - Face masks - Helmet - Body masks - Horizontal
Because it spreads culture and the language to all parts of the globe
A ceremony/event that decides whether one is still a boy or is prepared to become a man

33. Mila
that it is leaving one community and entering another
the father
Push factor are negative things about a land - Pull factors are positive things about a land
Swahili beliefs that spirits can posess a person and there is a close link between their religious beliefs and the practice of medicine and healing

34. What is importance of Swahili language?
ethnic group that inhabiting Arabia and other countries of the Middle East and northern Africa
Black Africans and people of European descent
the belief that everything has a soul; and you should respect what you have and treat it well
It is used by various ethnic groups in East Africa as the language of business and communication

35. What are two cities in Southern Africa that have a population of more than one million people?
Used for ceremonies - Believed to hold ancestor spirits - Headdress - Face masks - Helmet - Body masks - Horizontal
The carve a fertility statue that encourages the spirits to 'stay' in her world instead of being reborn in another
a storyteller who passes a group's oral traditions on from one generation to another
Cape Town and Johannesburg in South Africa

36. What is the Sahel?
Kenya - Zanzibar - Tanzania
the southern edge of the Sahara Desert
the father
the spread and expansion of African culture (over 400 years)

37. In Africa - what is considered one of the greatest honors (by a woman)?
Tribes use councils or elders to represent best interests
that it is leaving one community and entering another
Africa was filled with valuable things (rubber - palm oil - wood - etc...)
To have a baby

38. Griot

39. What was an economic motive as to why Europeans took over Africa?
Gifts given from the groom's family to the bride's family upon marriage.
To have a baby
Southern tip of Africa - came for slaves and to farm
Africa was filled with valuable things (rubber - palm oil - wood - etc...)

40. What do Africans believe about death?
the spread and expansion of African culture (over 400 years)
a storyteller who passes a group's oral traditions on from one generation to another
It is used by various ethnic groups in East Africa as the language of business and communication
that it is leaving one community and entering another

41. Islam
Otto von Bismarck; 14 nations came
people found in the modern country of Ghana - in west africa - and who are known for their artful weaving and colorful asasia - or kente cloth.
the monotheistic religion of Muslims based on the teachings of prophet Muhammad as laid down in the Koran. The second largest religion in the world.
Covers 40% of Africa

42. What do African women do when they fail at birth and why?

43. What are two main ethnic groups in Southern Africa?
the most widely spoken Bantu languages; people and culture found on the coast of east Africa.
A medication that helped Europeans survive malaria to continue colonizing Africa.
a mask ceremony
Black Africans and people of European descent

44. What happens after completion of an Age-Rite ceremony?
a mask ceremony
Mauritania
It is used by various ethnic groups in East Africa as the language of business and communication
The carve a fertility statue that encourages the spirits to 'stay' in her world instead of being reborn in another

45. What was a religious motive as to why Europeans took over Africa?
No. If done - the boy who gets the girl pregnant most provide compensation to family.
If honored - society will benefit. If ignored - destruction may occur.
Centralized government - tribe has a chief - king - or emperor
Europeans felt their religions and culture were superior

46. Swahili
the father
the most widely spoken Bantu languages; people and culture found on the coast of east Africa.
No. If done - the boy who gets the girl pregnant most provide compensation to family.
a mask ceremony

47. In Africa - is premarital sex allowed? Why or why not?
Tribes use councils or elders to represent best interests
Used for ceremonies - Believed to hold ancestor spirits - Headdress - Face masks - Helmet - Body masks - Horizontal
the spread and expansion of African culture (over 400 years)
No. If done - the boy who gets the girl pregnant most provide compensation to family.

48. What is animism?
ethnic group that inhabiting Arabia and other countries of the Middle East and northern Africa
The belief that there are spirits present in animals - plants - and other natural forces
Centralized government - tribe has a chief - king - or emperor
the most widely spoken Bantu languages; people and culture found on the coast of east Africa.

49. What is the African diaspora?
the spread and expansion of African culture (over 400 years)
a shrine
Europeans felt their religions and culture were superior
an event where a boy goes off for months to train - educate - and understand

50. How are Bantu-speaking people important to African culture?
Because it spreads culture and the language to all parts of the globe
They spread southward as a group and share their language and culture
Cape Town and Johannesburg in South Africa
Griots. Griots are essentially 'storytellers' because only few African societies had written languages.