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African Culture

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1. What was an economic motive as to why Europeans took over Africa?
Morroco - Egypt - Libya
Southern tip of Africa - came for slaves and to farm
Africa was filled with valuable things (rubber - palm oil - wood - etc...)
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

2. What is importance of Swahili language?
A medication that helped Europeans survive malaria to continue colonizing Africa.
They spread southward as a group and share their language and culture
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
It is used by various ethnic groups in East Africa as the language of business and communication

3. What do Africans consider twins as?

4. What was a religious motive as to why Europeans took over Africa?
Europeans felt their religions and culture were superior
The carve a fertility statue that encourages the spirits to 'stay' in her world instead of being reborn in another
Kenya - Zanzibar - Tanzania
the most widely spoken Bantu languages; people and culture found on the coast of east Africa.

5. What is initiation?
a shrine
A ceremony/event that decides whether one is still a boy or is prepared to become a man
a mask ceremony
Centralized government - tribe has a chief - king - or emperor

6. In childhood - where does the child spend most of his/her first years with?
South Africa - Mozambique
that it is leaving one community and entering another
'supernatural' creatures and they are unwanted
The mother

7. Non-centralized government
Mauritania
Black Africans and people of European descent
Tribes use councils or elders to represent best interests
a shrine

8. What are 'bride-wealth' gifts?

9. What two types of leadership can you find in Africa? Explain them.
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 mask ceremony
They spread southward as a group and share their language and culture
Centralized government - tribe has a chief - king - or emperor

10. How is death responded to in African culture
Cape Town and Johannesburg in South Africa
it is celebrated
Used for ceremonies - Believed to hold ancestor spirits - Headdress - Face masks - Helmet - Body masks - Horizontal
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.

11. What is an Age-Rite ceremony?
the father
Morroco - Egypt - Libya
an event where a boy goes off for months to train - educate - and understand
a mask ceremony

12. Mila
Griots. Griots are essentially 'storytellers' because only few African societies had written languages.
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
Arabs and Berbers
the father

13. African Masks
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
Used for ceremonies - Believed to hold ancestor spirits - Headdress - Face masks - Helmet - Body masks - Horizontal
Mauritania

14. Why is African immigration so important?
The father's to learn how to survive
Because it spreads culture and the language to all parts of the globe
Gifts given from the groom's family to the bride's family upon marriage.
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.

15. Located in Southern Africa
the belief that everything has a soul; and you should respect what you have and treat it well
South Africa - Mozambique
The mother
Kenya - Zanzibar - Tanzania

16. What is a gerontocracy?
when authority is held by the elders of the group
an event where a boy goes off for months to train - educate - and understand
Africa was filled with valuable things (rubber - palm oil - wood - etc...)
No. If done - the boy who gets the girl pregnant most provide compensation to family.

17. Islam
To have a baby
Belgium
Gifts given from the groom's family to the bride's family upon marriage.
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.

18. Swahili
that it is leaving one community and entering another
Kenya - Zanzibar - Tanzania
the most widely spoken Bantu languages; people and culture found on the coast of east Africa.
Nationalism (shared identity - history - and destiny)

19. In African society - who picks the spouse for a woman/girl?
ethnic group that inhabiting Arabia and other countries of the Middle East and northern Africa
the father
it is celebrated
The mother

20. What is the Sahel?
a storyteller who passes a group's oral traditions on from one generation to another
Because it spreads culture and the language to all parts of the globe
the southern edge of the Sahara Desert
that it is leaving one community and entering another

21. What are the two largest ethnic groups in North Africa?
a mask ceremony
Arabs and Berbers
Southern tip of Africa - came for slaves and to farm
the spread and expansion of African culture (over 400 years)

22. Arab
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.
ethnic group that inhabiting Arabia and other countries of the Middle East and northern Africa
Push factor are negative things about a land - Pull factors are positive things about a land
Because it spreads culture and the language to all parts of the globe

23. Name the three main groups of people of European ancestry in Southern Africa.
Angola - Congo
They spread southward as a group and share their language and culture
The mother
1. British settlers - English 2. Afrikaners - Dutch settlers - Afrikaans 3. Portuguese settlers - Portuguese

24. What is animism?
Black Africans and people of European descent
Gifts given from the groom's family to the bride's family upon marriage.
Guns to obtain more slaves
The belief that there are spirits present in animals - plants - and other natural forces

25. Ashanti
South Africa - Mozambique
Africa was filled with valuable things (rubber - palm oil - wood - etc...)
the father
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.

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

27. What are Africans' main method of communication?

28. What are two main ethnic groups in Southern Africa?
Black Africans and people of European descent
ethnic group that inhabiting Arabia and other countries of the Middle East and northern Africa
South Africa - Mozambique
the belief that everything has a soul; and you should respect what you have and treat it well

29. In Africa - is premarital sex allowed? Why or why not?
'supernatural' creatures and they are unwanted
No. If done - the boy who gets the girl pregnant most provide compensation to family.
The father's to learn how to survive
Because it spreads culture and the language to all parts of the globe

30. 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
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.
The belief that there are spirits present in animals - plants - and other natural forces

31. Who was considered to be the 'biggest winner' of land after the meeting
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
Nationalism (shared identity - history - and destiny)
Mauritania
Belgium

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

33. What are two cities in Southern Africa that have a population of more than one million people?
Cape Town and Johannesburg in South Africa
exploitation
Black Africans and people of European descent
Guns to obtain more slaves

34. Animism
the belief that everything has a soul; and you should respect what you have and treat it well
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
Morroco - Egypt - Libya

35. Why did Southern Africa attract Europeans?
Southern tip of Africa - came for slaves and to farm
exploitation
Tribes use councils or elders to represent best interests
Cape Town and Johannesburg in South Africa

36. What was a political motive as to why Europeans took over Africa?
Morroco - Egypt - Libya
Guns to obtain more slaves
Nationalism (shared identity - history - and destiny)
The belief that there are spirits present in animals - plants - and other natural forces

37. 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
Guns to obtain more slaves
exploitation
the father

38. What happens after completion of an Age-Rite ceremony?
Gifts given from the groom's family to the bride's family upon marriage.
Push factor are negative things about a land - Pull factors are positive things about a land
Morroco - Egypt - Libya
a mask ceremony

39. Who held the Berlin Conference and how many nations were invited?
Black Africans and people of European descent
Otto von Bismarck; 14 nations came
Europeans felt their religions and culture were superior
1. British settlers - English 2. Afrikaners - Dutch settlers - Afrikaans 3. Portuguese settlers - Portuguese

40. What does 'scarification' represent?

41. In Africa - what is considered one of the greatest honors (by a woman)?
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
Europeans felt their religions and culture were superior
To have a baby

42. Griot

43. What do Africans believe about death?
If honored - society will benefit. If ignored - destruction may occur.
A medication that helped Europeans survive malaria to continue colonizing Africa.
that it is leaving one community and entering another
the spread and expansion of African culture (over 400 years)

44. What is quinine?
Covers 40% of Africa
Because it spreads culture and the language to all parts of the globe
A medication that helped Europeans survive malaria to continue colonizing 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.

45. What power are elderly women believed to possess in African society?
when authority is held by the elders of the group
No. If done - the boy who gets the girl pregnant most provide compensation to family.
Cape Town and Johannesburg in South Africa
If honored - society will benefit. If ignored - destruction may occur.

46. Located in Central Africa
Guns to obtain more slaves
an event where a boy goes off for months to train - educate - and understand
ethnic group that inhabiting Arabia and other countries of the Middle East and northern Africa
Angola - Congo

47. Located in East Africa
If honored - society will benefit. If ignored - destruction may occur.
Kenya - Zanzibar - Tanzania
the belief that everything has a soul; and you should respect what you have and treat it well
Mauritania

48. How are Bantu-speaking people important to African culture?
Guns to obtain more slaves
They spread southward as a group and share their language and culture
It is used by various ethnic groups in East Africa as the language of business and communication
Cape Town and Johannesburg in South Africa

49. What is the difference between a push and a pull factor?
Push factor are negative things about a land - Pull factors are positive things about a land
Gifts given from the groom's family to the bride's family upon marriage.
The mother
They spread southward as a group and share their language and culture

50. What is the savanna?
Covers 40% of Africa
Southern tip of Africa - came for slaves and to farm
marks made on masks to represent monster's teeth
a storyteller who passes a group's oral traditions on from one generation to another