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African Culture

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1. In African society - who picks the spouse for a woman/girl?
The mother
Nationalism (shared identity - history - and destiny)
the father
Tribes use councils or elders to represent best interests

2. What are 'bride-wealth' gifts?

3. In childhood - where does the child spend most of his/her first years with?
The mother
Guns to obtain more slaves
'supernatural' creatures and they are unwanted
A medication that helped Europeans survive malaria to continue colonizing Africa.

4. In Africa - is premarital sex allowed? Why or why not?
Morroco - Egypt - Libya
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
the father

5. Why did Southern Africa attract Europeans?
Southern tip of Africa - came for slaves and to farm
Tribes use councils or elders to represent best interests
when authority is held by the elders of the group
Kenya - Zanzibar - Tanzania

6. What is animism?
Arabs and Berbers
The belief that there are spirits present in animals - plants - and other natural forces
exploitation
the spread and expansion of African culture (over 400 years)

7. Griot

8. What is a gerontocracy?
when authority is held by the elders of the group
Southern tip of Africa - came for slaves and to farm
Nationalism (shared identity - history - and destiny)
Mauritania

9. What was a religious motive as to why Europeans took over Africa?
The father's to learn how to survive
Morroco - Egypt - Libya
Europeans felt their religions and culture were superior
marks made on masks to represent monster's teeth

10. What does 'scarification' represent?

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

12. 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
Belgium
Black Africans and people of European descent
Gifts given from the groom's family to the bride's family upon marriage.

13. What is an Age-Rite ceremony?
an event where a boy goes off for months to train - educate - and understand
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
the southern edge of the Sahara Desert

14. 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
when authority is held by the elders of the group
a shrine
Africa was filled with valuable things (rubber - palm oil - wood - etc...)

15. What is the savanna?
Covers 40% of Africa
Belgium
marks made on masks to represent monster's teeth
Used for ceremonies - Believed to hold ancestor spirits - Headdress - Face masks - Helmet - Body masks - Horizontal

16. Located in East Africa
Centralized government - tribe has a chief - king - or emperor
Kenya - Zanzibar - Tanzania
it is celebrated
the belief that everything has a soul; and you should respect what you have and treat it well

17. In the slave trade - what were African slaves traded for to the Europeans?
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.
If honored - society will benefit. If ignored - destruction may occur.
Guns to obtain more slaves
Centralized government - tribe has a chief - king - or emperor

18. What are two main ethnic groups in Southern Africa?
marks made on masks to represent monster's teeth
Covers 40% of Africa
The mother
Black Africans and people of European descent

19. How are Bantu-speaking people important to African culture?
a mask ceremony
They spread southward as a group and share their language and culture
marks made on masks to represent monster's teeth
Guns to obtain more slaves

20. What are Africans' main method of communication?

21. 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
Angola - Congo
a storyteller who passes a group's oral traditions on from one generation to 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.

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

23. What do Africans believe about death?
Angola - Congo
the spread and expansion of African culture (over 400 years)
that it is leaving one community and entering another
Africa was filled with valuable things (rubber - palm oil - wood - etc...)

24. Who held the Berlin Conference and how many nations were invited?
1. British settlers - English 2. Afrikaners - Dutch settlers - Afrikaans 3. Portuguese settlers - Portuguese
Gifts given from the groom's family to the bride's family upon marriage.
the father
Otto von Bismarck; 14 nations came

25. Arab
ethnic group that inhabiting Arabia and other countries of the Middle East and northern Africa
Angola - Congo
Mauritania
South Africa - Mozambique

26. What are two cities in Southern Africa that have a population of more than one million people?
Belgium
Cape Town and Johannesburg in South Africa
Centralized government - tribe has a chief - king - or emperor
it is celebrated

27. What is the difference between a push and a pull factor?
South Africa - Mozambique
Push factor are negative things about a land - Pull factors are positive things about a land
a shrine
the father

28. What is initiation?
A ceremony/event that decides whether one is still a boy or is prepared to become a man
when authority is held by the elders of the group
the southern edge of the Sahara Desert
The mother

29. Located in Southern Africa
South Africa - Mozambique
To have a baby
when authority is held by the elders of the group
a shrine

30. What happens after completion of an Age-Rite ceremony?
The carve a fertility statue that encourages the spirits to 'stay' in her world instead of being reborn in another
a mask ceremony
Gifts given from the groom's family to the bride's family upon marriage.
Arabs and Berbers

31. Why is African immigration so important?
Gifts given from the groom's family to the bride's family upon marriage.
The mother
Because it spreads culture and the language to all parts of the globe
Push factor are negative things about a land - Pull factors are positive things about a land

32. What is the African diaspora?
Centralized government - tribe has a chief - king - or emperor
Nationalism (shared identity - history - and destiny)
the spread and expansion of African culture (over 400 years)
Tribes use councils or elders to represent best interests

33. Ashanti
it is celebrated
The carve a fertility statue that encourages the spirits to 'stay' in her world instead of being reborn in another
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.
Gifts given from the groom's family to the bride's family upon marriage.

34. Non-centralized government
Africa was filled with valuable things (rubber - palm oil - wood - etc...)
Covers 40% of Africa
Black Africans and people of European descent
Tribes use councils or elders to represent best interests

35. Swahili
a mask ceremony
Kenya - Zanzibar - Tanzania
the most widely spoken Bantu languages; people and culture found on the coast of east Africa.
If honored - society will benefit. If ignored - destruction may occur.

36. What two types of leadership can you find in Africa? Explain them.
the father
Belgium
it is celebrated
Centralized government - tribe has a chief - king - or emperor

37. What are the two largest ethnic groups in North Africa?
If honored - society will benefit. If ignored - destruction may occur.
it is celebrated
Arabs and Berbers
Africa was filled with valuable things (rubber - palm oil - wood - etc...)

38. In Africa - what is considered one of the greatest honors (by a woman)?
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.
Southern tip of Africa - came for slaves and to farm
Tribes use councils or elders to represent best interests

39. What key objective was in the minds of each and every European colonial power?
that it is leaving one community and entering another
'supernatural' creatures and they are unwanted
exploitation
Mauritania

40. Located in North Africa
1. British settlers - English 2. Afrikaners - Dutch settlers - Afrikaans 3. Portuguese settlers - Portuguese
Morroco - Egypt - Libya
Push factor are negative things about a land - Pull factors are positive things about a land
Arabs and Berbers

41. What do Africans consider twins as?

42. African Masks
Used for ceremonies - Believed to hold ancestor spirits - Headdress - Face masks - Helmet - Body masks - Horizontal
Griots. Griots are essentially 'storytellers' because only few African societies had written languages.
the southern edge of the Sahara Desert
exploitation

43. How is death responded to in African culture
it is celebrated
They spread southward as a group and share their language and culture
Mauritania
Covers 40% of Africa

44. Islam
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.
South Africa - Mozambique
ethnic group that inhabiting Arabia and other countries of the Middle East and northern Africa
Europeans felt their religions and culture were superior

45. Located in Central Africa
the spread and expansion of African culture (over 400 years)
the southern edge of the Sahara Desert
Mauritania
Angola - Congo

46. What was a political motive as to why Europeans took over Africa?
that it is leaving one community and entering another
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
The carve a fertility statue that encourages the spirits to 'stay' in her world instead of being reborn in another

47. What power are elderly women believed to possess in African society?
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
'supernatural' creatures and they are unwanted
Otto von Bismarck; 14 nations came
If honored - society will benefit. If ignored - destruction may occur.

48. What is quinine?
Arabs and Berbers
a storyteller who passes a group's oral traditions on from one generation to another
Kenya - Zanzibar - Tanzania
A medication that helped Europeans survive malaria to continue colonizing Africa.

49. Animism
the belief that everything has a soul; and you should respect what you have and treat it well
The father's to learn how to survive
1. British settlers - English 2. Afrikaners - Dutch settlers - Afrikaans 3. Portuguese settlers - Portuguese
To have a baby

50. Located in West Africa
The belief that there are spirits present in animals - plants - and other natural forces
Mauritania
Centralized government - tribe has a chief - king - or emperor
'supernatural' creatures and they are unwanted