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African Culture

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1. What are the two largest ethnic groups in North Africa?
Centralized government - tribe has a chief - king - or emperor
Belgium
Arabs and Berbers
Kenya - Zanzibar - Tanzania

2. What was an economic motive as to why Europeans took over Africa?
the belief that everything has a soul; and you should respect what you have and treat it well
the father
Covers 40% of Africa
Africa was filled with valuable things (rubber - palm oil - wood - etc...)

3. What happens after completion of an Age-Rite ceremony?
Tribes use councils or elders to represent best interests
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.
1. British settlers - English 2. Afrikaners - Dutch settlers - Afrikaans 3. Portuguese settlers - Portuguese
a mask ceremony

4. Who held the Berlin Conference and how many nations were invited?
If honored - society will benefit. If ignored - destruction may occur.
Otto von Bismarck; 14 nations came
The father's to learn how to survive
Kenya - Zanzibar - Tanzania

5. What are Africans' main method of communication?

6. Swahili
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 storyteller who passes a group's oral traditions on from one generation to another
A ceremony/event that decides whether one is still a boy or is prepared to become a man

7. What are two main ethnic groups in Southern 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
Africa was filled with valuable things (rubber - palm oil - wood - etc...)
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

8. Ashanti
Nationalism (shared identity - history - and destiny)
To have a baby
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.
that it is leaving one community and entering another

9. Arab
the father
Used for ceremonies - Believed to hold ancestor spirits - Headdress - Face masks - Helmet - Body masks - Horizontal
Belgium
ethnic group that inhabiting Arabia and other countries of the Middle East and northern Africa

10. What is the difference between a push and a pull factor?
the southern edge of the Sahara Desert
Push factor are negative things about a land - Pull factors are positive things about a land
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

11. Located in West Africa
Mauritania
A medication that helped Europeans survive malaria to continue colonizing Africa.
Arabs and Berbers
It is used by various ethnic groups in East Africa as the language of business and communication

12. What is the Sahel?
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 mother
exploitation
the southern edge of the Sahara Desert

13. In African society - who picks the spouse for a woman/girl?
A ceremony/event that decides whether one is still a boy or is prepared to become a man
the father
Push factor are negative things about a land - Pull factors are positive things about a land
Mauritania

14. African Masks
Used for ceremonies - Believed to hold ancestor spirits - Headdress - Face masks - Helmet - Body masks - Horizontal
a mask ceremony
The carve a fertility statue that encourages the spirits to 'stay' in her world instead of being reborn in another
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

15. What power are elderly women believed to possess in African society?
Push factor are negative things about a land - Pull factors are positive things about a land
If honored - society will benefit. If ignored - destruction may occur.
Gifts given from the groom's family to the bride's family upon marriage.
A medication that helped Europeans survive malaria to continue colonizing Africa.

16. What do Africans consider twins as?

17. Who was considered to be the 'biggest winner' of land after the meeting
an event where a boy goes off for months to train - educate - and understand
The mother
Belgium
it is celebrated

18. Why is African immigration so important?
the father
If honored - society will benefit. If ignored - destruction may occur.
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

19. What key objective was in the minds of each and every European colonial power?
exploitation
the belief that everything has a soul; and you should respect what you have and treat it well
No. If done - the boy who gets the girl pregnant most provide compensation to family.
the most widely spoken Bantu languages; people and culture found on the coast of east Africa.

20. What does 'scarification' represent?

21. In Africa - what is considered one of the greatest honors (by a woman)?
Because it spreads culture and the language to all parts of the globe
A medication that helped Europeans survive malaria to continue colonizing Africa.
the spread and expansion of African culture (over 400 years)
To have a baby

22. What are 'bride-wealth' gifts?

23. In African society - what item do most have in their homes dedicated to a certain family?
Centralized government - tribe has a chief - king - or emperor
Otto von Bismarck; 14 nations came
a shrine
A medication that helped Europeans survive malaria to continue colonizing Africa.

24. Animism
Mauritania
Used for ceremonies - Believed to hold ancestor spirits - Headdress - Face masks - Helmet - Body masks - Horizontal
ethnic group that inhabiting Arabia and other countries of the Middle East and northern Africa
the belief that everything has a soul; and you should respect what you have and treat it well

25. Located in North Africa
Nationalism (shared identity - history - and destiny)
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
Morroco - Egypt - Libya
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.

26. Located in East Africa
Arabs and Berbers
Kenya - Zanzibar - Tanzania
1. British settlers - English 2. Afrikaners - Dutch settlers - Afrikaans 3. Portuguese settlers - Portuguese
it is celebrated

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

28. What is initiation?
the southern edge of the Sahara Desert
A ceremony/event that decides whether one is still a boy or is prepared to become a man
Griots. Griots are essentially 'storytellers' because only few African societies had written languages.
Push factor are negative things about a land - Pull factors are positive things about a land

29. Islam
Arabs and Berbers
the most widely spoken Bantu languages; people and culture found on the coast of east Africa.
The belief that there are spirits present in animals - plants - and other natural forces
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.

30. What is animism?
The belief that there are spirits present in animals - plants - and other natural forces
Africa was filled with valuable things (rubber - palm oil - wood - etc...)
Black Africans and people of European descent
Used for ceremonies - Believed to hold ancestor spirits - Headdress - Face masks - Helmet - Body masks - Horizontal

31. Non-centralized government
Arabs and Berbers
Covers 40% of Africa
Belgium
Tribes use councils or elders to represent best interests

32. What is quinine?
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.
They spread southward as a group and share their language and culture
a mask ceremony
A medication that helped Europeans survive malaria to continue colonizing Africa.

33. Griot

34. What is the savanna?
an event where a boy goes off for months to train - educate - and understand
Covers 40% of Africa
The mother
Guns to obtain more slaves

35. What is importance of Swahili language?
The belief that there are spirits present in animals - plants - and other natural forces
It is used by various ethnic groups in East Africa as the language of business and communication
Morroco - Egypt - Libya
Tribes use councils or elders to represent best interests

36. What was a religious motive as to why Europeans took over Africa?
Otto von Bismarck; 14 nations came
the southern edge of the Sahara Desert
Europeans felt their religions and culture were superior
the belief that everything has a soul; and you should respect what you have and treat it well

37. Located in Central Africa
an event where a boy goes off for months to train - educate - and understand
Angola - Congo
that it is leaving one community and entering another
A medication that helped Europeans survive malaria to continue colonizing Africa.

38. In the slave trade - what were African slaves traded for to the Europeans?
Kenya - Zanzibar - Tanzania
Guns to obtain more slaves
Centralized government - tribe has a chief - king - or emperor
marks made on masks to represent monster's teeth

39. What is a gerontocracy?
1. British settlers - English 2. Afrikaners - Dutch settlers - Afrikaans 3. Portuguese settlers - Portuguese
when authority is held by the elders of the group
the most widely spoken Bantu languages; people and culture found on the coast of east Africa.
The belief that there are spirits present in animals - plants - and other natural forces

40. What do Africans believe about death?
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.
that it is leaving one community and entering another
Cape Town and Johannesburg in South Africa
Mauritania

41. Why did Southern Africa attract Europeans?
Nationalism (shared identity - history - and destiny)
No. If done - the boy who gets the girl pregnant most provide compensation to family.
Southern tip of Africa - came for slaves and to farm
They spread southward as a group and share their language and culture

42. Located in Southern Africa
the belief that everything has a soul; and you should respect what you have and treat it well
the spread and expansion of African culture (over 400 years)
the most widely spoken Bantu languages; people and culture found on the coast of east Africa.
South Africa - Mozambique

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

44. 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
Africa was filled with valuable things (rubber - palm oil - wood - etc...)
'supernatural' creatures and they are unwanted
the father

45. In Africa - is premarital sex allowed? Why or why not?
Arabs and Berbers
it is celebrated
No. If done - the boy who gets the girl pregnant most provide compensation to family.
Europeans felt their religions and culture were superior

46. How is death responded to in African culture
Southern tip of Africa - came for slaves and to farm
the most widely spoken Bantu languages; people and culture found on the coast of east Africa.
it is celebrated
the father

47. What is an Age-Rite ceremony?
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
an event where a boy goes off for months to train - educate - and understand
the most widely spoken Bantu languages; people and culture found on the coast of east Africa.

48. In childhood - where does the child spend most of his/her first years with?
The father's to learn how to survive
Because it spreads culture and the language to all parts of the globe
Morroco - Egypt - Libya
The mother

49. What is the African diaspora?
Belgium
Centralized government - tribe has a chief - king - or emperor
the spread and expansion of African culture (over 400 years)
when authority is held by the elders of the group

50. Name the three main groups of people of European ancestry in Southern 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.
1. British settlers - English 2. Afrikaners - Dutch settlers - Afrikaans 3. Portuguese settlers - Portuguese
when authority is held by the elders of the group
Kenya - Zanzibar - Tanzania