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African Culture

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1. What is initiation?
exploitation
Arabs and Berbers
A ceremony/event that decides whether one is still a boy or is prepared to become a man
Push factor are negative things about a land - Pull factors are positive things about a land

2. What are the two largest ethnic groups in North Africa?
Europeans felt their religions and culture were superior
exploitation
Arabs and Berbers
Cape Town and Johannesburg in South Africa

3. Mila
Black Africans and people of European descent
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
The carve a fertility statue that encourages the spirits to 'stay' in her world instead of being reborn in another
marks made on masks to represent monster's teeth

4. What is an Age-Rite ceremony?
an event where a boy goes off for months to train - educate - and understand
Because it spreads culture and the language to all parts of the globe
Tribes use councils or elders to represent best interests
Griots. Griots are essentially 'storytellers' because only few African societies had written languages.

5. What is the difference between a push and a pull factor?
a storyteller who passes a group's oral traditions on from one generation to another
Guns to obtain more slaves
The father's to learn how to survive
Push factor are negative things about a land - Pull factors are positive things about a land

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

7. Why did Southern Africa attract Europeans?
that it is leaving one community and entering another
Southern tip of Africa - came for slaves and to farm
Tribes use councils or elders to represent best interests
A ceremony/event that decides whether one is still a boy or is prepared to become a man

8. Located in Southern Africa
South Africa - Mozambique
Black Africans and people of European descent
Morroco - Egypt - Libya
It is used by various ethnic groups in East Africa as the language of business and communication

9. In the slave trade - what were African slaves traded for to the Europeans?
The father's to learn how to survive
Arabs and Berbers
Guns to obtain more slaves
Because it spreads culture and the language to all parts of the globe

10. In Africa - is premarital sex allowed? Why or why not?
No. If done - the boy who gets the girl pregnant most provide compensation to family.
The carve a fertility statue that encourages the spirits to 'stay' in her world instead of being reborn in another
They spread southward as a group and share their language and culture
a shrine

11. Who held the Berlin Conference and how many nations were invited?
Otto von Bismarck; 14 nations came
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
a mask ceremony

12. In childhood - where does the child spend most of his/her first years with?
Africa was filled with valuable things (rubber - palm oil - wood - etc...)
Arabs and Berbers
They spread southward as a group and share their language and culture
The mother

13. What is importance of Swahili language?
marks made on masks to represent monster's teeth
Belgium
It is used by various ethnic groups in East Africa as the language of business and communication
Because it spreads culture and the language to all parts of the globe

14. Located in Central Africa
Kenya - Zanzibar - Tanzania
'supernatural' creatures and they are unwanted
Europeans felt their religions and culture were superior
Angola - Congo

15. What are Africans' main method of communication?

16. How is death responded to in African culture
The belief that there are spirits present in animals - plants - and other natural forces
Covers 40% of Africa
Griots. Griots are essentially 'storytellers' because only few African societies had written languages.
it is celebrated

17. What is a gerontocracy?
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.
when authority is held by the elders of the group
South Africa - Mozambique
1. British settlers - English 2. Afrikaners - Dutch settlers - Afrikaans 3. Portuguese settlers - Portuguese

18. What was a political motive as to why Europeans took over Africa?
Mauritania
Nationalism (shared identity - history - and destiny)
marks made on masks to represent monster's teeth
the belief that everything has a soul; and you should respect what you have and treat it well

19. What is animism?
No. If done - the boy who gets the girl pregnant most provide compensation to family.
Because it spreads culture and the language to all parts of the globe
Arabs and Berbers
The belief that there are spirits present in animals - plants - and other natural forces

20. Ashanti
Push factor are negative things about a land - Pull factors are positive things about a land
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.
To have a baby
The mother

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

22. What is the savanna?
Covers 40% of Africa
Nationalism (shared identity - history - and destiny)
If honored - society will benefit. If ignored - destruction may occur.
that it is leaving one community and entering another

23. What happens after completion of an Age-Rite ceremony?
Belgium
A ceremony/event that decides whether one is still a boy or is prepared to become a man
a mask ceremony
Arabs and Berbers

24. What do Africans believe about death?
marks made on masks to represent monster's teeth
Morroco - Egypt - Libya
that it is leaving one community and entering another
Nationalism (shared identity - history - and destiny)

25. What is the African diaspora?
Covers 40% of Africa
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)
A medication that helped Europeans survive malaria to continue colonizing Africa.

26. Located in North Africa
Morroco - Egypt - Libya
the southern edge of the Sahara Desert
Black Africans and people of European descent
Mauritania

27. Animism
the belief that everything has a soul; and you should respect what you have and treat it well
Centralized government - tribe has a chief - king - or emperor
Southern tip of Africa - came for slaves and to farm
the father

28. What was a religious motive as to why Europeans took over Africa?
Europeans felt their religions and culture were superior
A medication that helped Europeans survive malaria to continue colonizing Africa.
Used for ceremonies - Believed to hold ancestor spirits - Headdress - Face masks - Helmet - Body masks - Horizontal
South Africa - Mozambique

29. What does 'scarification' represent?

30. In African society - who picks the spouse for a woman/girl?
Push factor are negative things about a land - Pull factors are positive things about a land
Guns to obtain more slaves
Southern tip of Africa - came for slaves and to farm
the father

31. How are Bantu-speaking people important to African culture?
Angola - Congo
the father
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
They spread southward as a group and share their language and culture

32. What is quinine?
the most widely spoken Bantu languages; people and culture found on the coast of east Africa.
a shrine
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.

33. Islam
A medication that helped Europeans survive malaria to continue colonizing Africa.
Cape Town and Johannesburg in South Africa
the spread and expansion of African culture (over 400 years)
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.

34. Located in West Africa
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
Griots. Griots are essentially 'storytellers' because only few African societies had written languages.
Mauritania

35. Non-centralized government
'supernatural' creatures and they are unwanted
Arabs and Berbers
Tribes use councils or elders to represent best interests
The belief that there are spirits present in animals - plants - and other natural forces

36. What power are elderly women believed to possess in African society?
marks made on masks to represent monster's teeth
Used for ceremonies - Believed to hold ancestor spirits - Headdress - Face masks - Helmet - Body masks - Horizontal
it is celebrated
If honored - society will benefit. If ignored - destruction may occur.

37. Who was considered to be the 'biggest winner' of land after the meeting
Griots. Griots are essentially 'storytellers' because only few African societies had written languages.
Belgium
It is used by various ethnic groups in East Africa as the language of business and communication
Used for ceremonies - Believed to hold ancestor spirits - Headdress - Face masks - Helmet - Body masks - Horizontal

38. What are two main ethnic groups in Southern Africa?
Black Africans and people of European descent
They spread southward as a group and share their language and culture
Griots. Griots are essentially 'storytellers' because only few African societies had written languages.
the father

39. In African society - what item do most have in their homes dedicated to a certain family?
Southern tip of Africa - came for slaves and to farm
a shrine
Africa was filled with valuable things (rubber - palm oil - wood - etc...)
an event where a boy goes off for months to train - educate - and understand

40. What was an economic motive as to why Europeans took over Africa?
an event where a boy goes off for months to train - educate - and understand
Nationalism (shared identity - history - and destiny)
Africa was filled with valuable things (rubber - palm oil - wood - etc...)
marks made on masks to represent monster's teeth

41. What key objective was in the minds of each and every European colonial power?
that it is leaving one community and entering another
exploitation
No. If done - the boy who gets the girl pregnant most provide compensation to family.
Covers 40% of Africa

42. Griot

43. Located in East Africa
Kenya - Zanzibar - Tanzania
Morroco - Egypt - Libya
Used for ceremonies - Believed to hold ancestor spirits - Headdress - Face masks - Helmet - Body masks - Horizontal
'supernatural' creatures and they are unwanted

44. Swahili
the most widely spoken Bantu languages; people and culture found on the coast of east Africa.
when authority is held by the elders of the group
it is celebrated
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.

45. What are 'bride-wealth' gifts?

46. Why is African immigration so important?
Gifts given from the groom's family to the bride's family upon marriage.
Because it spreads culture and the language to all parts of the globe
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.
To have a baby

47. In Africa - what is considered one of the greatest honors (by a woman)?
Angola - Congo
It is used by various ethnic groups in East Africa as the language of business and communication
Because it spreads culture and the language to all parts of the globe
To have a baby

48. Arab
the spread and expansion of African culture (over 400 years)
Belgium
ethnic group that inhabiting Arabia and other countries of the Middle East and northern Africa
Otto von Bismarck; 14 nations came

49. What do Africans consider twins as?

50. What is the Sahel?
the southern edge of the Sahara Desert
South Africa - Mozambique
Arabs and Berbers
A ceremony/event that decides whether one is still a boy or is prepared to become a man