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1. Who held the Berlin Conference and how many nations were invited?
Otto von Bismarck; 14 nations came
It is used by various ethnic groups in East Africa as the language of business and communication
an event where a boy goes off for months to train - educate - and understand
Kenya - Zanzibar - Tanzania


2. What is initiation?
No. If done - the boy who gets the girl pregnant most provide compensation to family.
The belief that there are spirits present in animals - plants - and other natural forces
A ceremony/event that decides whether one is still a boy or is prepared to become a man
Used for ceremonies - Believed to hold ancestor spirits - Headdress - Face masks - Helmet - Body masks - Horizontal


3. Mila
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
Europeans felt their religions and culture were superior
It is used by various ethnic groups in East Africa as the language of business and communication
a storyteller who passes a group's oral traditions on from one generation to another


4. 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
Cape Town and Johannesburg in South Africa
Because it spreads culture and the language to all parts of the globe
a storyteller who passes a group's oral traditions on from one generation to another


5. What is animism?
Push factor are negative things about a land - Pull factors are positive things about a land
it is celebrated
The belief that there are spirits present in animals - plants - and other natural forces
a shrine


6. What two types of leadership can you find in Africa? Explain them.
Centralized government - tribe has a chief - king - or emperor
If honored - society will benefit. If ignored - destruction may occur.
Guns to obtain more slaves
The father's to learn how to survive


7. What does 'scarification' represent?

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

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

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10. What do Africans believe about death?
Centralized government - tribe has a chief - king - or emperor
Covers 40% of Africa
a storyteller who passes a group's oral traditions on from one generation to another
that it is leaving one community and entering another


11. In African society - what item do most have in their homes dedicated to a certain family?
a shrine
1. British settlers - English 2. Afrikaners - Dutch settlers - Afrikaans 3. Portuguese settlers - Portuguese
a mask ceremony
Africa was filled with valuable things (rubber - palm oil - wood - etc...)


12. What happens after completion of an Age-Rite ceremony?
a mask ceremony
an event where a boy goes off for months to train - educate - and understand
Europeans felt their religions and culture were superior
Cape Town and Johannesburg in South Africa


13. What was a political motive as to why Europeans took over Africa?
Nationalism (shared identity - history - and destiny)
Morroco - Egypt - Libya
marks made on masks to represent monster's teeth
Tribes use councils or elders to represent best interests


14. Name the three main groups of people of European ancestry in Southern Africa.
Black Africans and people of European descent
when authority is held by the elders of the group
1. British settlers - English 2. Afrikaners - Dutch settlers - Afrikaans 3. Portuguese settlers - Portuguese
Covers 40% of Africa


15. What are 'bride-wealth' gifts?

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16. What power are elderly women believed to possess in African society?
ethnic group that inhabiting Arabia and other countries of the Middle East and northern Africa
the southern edge of the Sahara Desert
If honored - society will benefit. If ignored - destruction may occur.
the most widely spoken Bantu languages; people and culture found on the coast of east Africa.


17. Griot

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18. What are two main ethnic groups in Southern Africa?
Black Africans and people of European descent
when authority is held by the elders of the group
Africa was filled with valuable things (rubber - palm oil - wood - etc...)
Mauritania


19. What is quinine?
Guns to obtain more slaves
Centralized government - tribe has a chief - king - or emperor
A medication that helped Europeans survive malaria to continue colonizing Africa.
The mother


20. What is the savanna?
Southern tip of Africa - came for slaves and to farm
Covers 40% of Africa
the southern edge of the Sahara Desert
Gifts given from the groom's family to the bride's family upon marriage.


21. How is death responded to in African culture
Covers 40% of Africa
it is celebrated
The mother
Arabs and Berbers


22. What is the African diaspora?
Covers 40% of Africa
It is used by various ethnic groups in East Africa as the language of business and communication
Griots. Griots are essentially 'storytellers' because only few African societies had written languages.
the spread and expansion of African culture (over 400 years)


23. In African society - who picks the spouse for a woman/girl?
the father
Mauritania
The mother
Centralized government - tribe has a chief - king - or emperor


24. What do Africans consider twins as?

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25. In the slave trade - what were African slaves traded for to the Europeans?
Gifts given from the groom's family to the bride's family upon marriage.
Guns to obtain more slaves
They spread southward as a group and share their language and culture
an event where a boy goes off for months to train - educate - and understand


26. Why is African immigration so important?
Because it spreads culture and the language to all parts of the globe
the spread and expansion of African culture (over 400 years)
Nationalism (shared identity - history - and destiny)
A medication that helped Europeans survive malaria to continue colonizing Africa.


27. Animism
Southern tip of Africa - came for slaves and to farm
the belief that everything has a soul; and you should respect what you have and treat it well
Morroco - Egypt - Libya
a storyteller who passes a group's oral traditions on from one generation to another


28. Why did Southern Africa attract Europeans?
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
a mask ceremony
Push factor are negative things about a land - Pull factors are positive things about a land
Southern tip of Africa - came for slaves and to farm


29. What is the difference between a push and a pull factor?
Used for ceremonies - Believed to hold ancestor spirits - Headdress - Face masks - Helmet - Body masks - Horizontal
Push factor are negative things about a land - Pull factors are positive things about a land
They spread southward as a group and share their language and culture
the spread and expansion of African culture (over 400 years)


30. What was an economic motive as to why Europeans took over Africa?
The mother
Africa was filled with valuable things (rubber - palm oil - wood - etc...)
marks made on masks to represent monster's teeth
a shrine


31. African Masks
Used for ceremonies - Believed to hold ancestor spirits - Headdress - Face masks - Helmet - Body masks - Horizontal
a shrine
Guns to obtain more slaves
marks made on masks to represent monster's teeth


32. Swahili
South Africa - Mozambique
The belief that there are spirits present in animals - plants - and other natural forces
the most widely spoken Bantu languages; people and culture found on the coast of east Africa.
marks made on masks to represent monster's teeth


33. What is an Age-Rite ceremony?
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.
Nationalism (shared identity - history - and destiny)
an event where a boy goes off for months to train - educate - and understand
Otto von Bismarck; 14 nations came


34. Located in East Africa
Gifts given from the groom's family to the bride's family upon marriage.
Kenya - Zanzibar - Tanzania
Griots. Griots are essentially 'storytellers' because only few African societies had written languages.
Covers 40% of Africa


35. Islam
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.
Angola - Congo
Africa was filled with valuable things (rubber - palm oil - wood - etc...)


36. How are Bantu-speaking people important to African culture?
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
Morroco - Egypt - Libya
They spread southward as a group and share their language and culture


37. What are Africans' main method of communication?

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38. In Africa - what is considered one of the greatest honors (by a woman)?
To have a baby
Africa was filled with valuable things (rubber - palm oil - wood - etc...)
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.
A medication that helped Europeans survive malaria to continue colonizing Africa.


39. What is a gerontocracy?
when authority is held by the elders of the group
Tribes use councils or elders to represent best interests
the belief that everything has a soul; and you should respect what you have and treat it well
'supernatural' creatures and they are unwanted


40. What key objective was in the minds of each and every European colonial power?
exploitation
the most widely spoken Bantu languages; people and culture found on the coast of east Africa.
Used for ceremonies - Believed to hold ancestor spirits - Headdress - Face masks - Helmet - Body masks - Horizontal
A ceremony/event that decides whether one is still a boy or is prepared to become a man


41. Who was considered to be the 'biggest winner' of land after the meeting
Belgium
ethnic group that inhabiting Arabia and other countries of the Middle East and northern Africa
A medication that helped Europeans survive malaria to continue colonizing Africa.
Nationalism (shared identity - history - and destiny)


42. Located in Southern Africa
Centralized government - tribe has a chief - king - or emperor
a mask ceremony
marks made on masks to represent monster's teeth
South Africa - Mozambique


43. Non-centralized government
Tribes use councils or elders to represent best interests
The belief that there are spirits present in animals - plants - and other natural forces
the most widely spoken Bantu languages; people and culture found on the coast of east Africa.
a mask ceremony


44. Located in Central Africa
a shrine
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.
Angola - Congo
They spread southward as a group and share their language and culture


45. Arab
ethnic group that inhabiting Arabia and other countries of the Middle East and northern Africa
Used for ceremonies - Believed to hold ancestor spirits - Headdress - Face masks - Helmet - Body masks - Horizontal
Morroco - Egypt - Libya
The belief that there are spirits present in animals - plants - and other natural forces


46. Located in West Africa
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.
Mauritania
exploitation
No. If done - the boy who gets the girl pregnant most provide compensation to family.


47. What was a religious motive as to why Europeans took over Africa?
Otto von Bismarck; 14 nations came
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
A medication that helped Europeans survive malaria to continue colonizing Africa.


48. Located in North Africa
Because it spreads culture and the language to all parts of the globe
the belief that everything has a soul; and you should respect what you have and treat it well
Morroco - Egypt - Libya
It is used by various ethnic groups in East Africa as the language of business and communication


49. What are the two largest ethnic groups in North Africa?
Nationalism (shared identity - history - and destiny)
Centralized government - tribe has a chief - king - or emperor
Arabs and Berbers
It is used by various ethnic groups in East Africa as the language of business and communication


50. In childhood - where does the child spend most of his/her first years with?
The mother
Covers 40% of Africa
an event where a boy goes off for months to train - educate - and understand
The carve a fertility statue that encourages the spirits to 'stay' in her world instead of being reborn in another