Arabs
Where the Arab communities primarily live in.
What is North Africa?
(Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Western Sahara, northern Sudan, and parts of Mauritania)
Where the Ashanti community primarily live.
What is the forests of south-central Ghana?
Where the Bantu community primarily live.
What is Central, East and South Africa?
Where the Swahili primarily live.
What is the East African Coast?
This is the belief that spirits inhabit the rivers, trees, mountains, rocks, and the animals.
What is Animism?
Over centuries, government, religion, and scholarship, the dominant language became ________
Ashanti society is one that follows descent and inheritance from the mother's lineage, this is also known as ________.
What is matrilineal?
The most important factor that the Bantu brought to Africa.
What is ironworking skills?
What is Kiswahili?
Animist traditions are closely tied to this aspect.
What is specific landscapes?
The name of the trade routes that helped create a shared cultural zone.
What is The trans-Saharan trade?
(+100 points if added gold and salt trade)
Many Ashanti people still attend the same church of this religion, but still participate in their ancestral rituals and festivals. (Hint: Sunday)
What is Christianity?
The amount of people who speak Bantu languages.
What is over 200 million?
What is the Indian Ocean, monsoon winds, coral reefs, natural harbor, and maritime trade?
Islam, the most prominent in this region, also spread along this specific ocean trade routes.
What is North Africa and the Indian Ocean?
When the Arabs came and began spreading Islam.
What is 600s to 700s CE?
This symbol unified the Ashanti Empire in 1701, believing it held the soul of the entire nation.
What is the Golden Stool?
Bantu religions blend their traditional religions, (ancestor veneration and maintaining harmony between physical and spiritual worlds,) with these religions.
This religious group has influenced Swahili ever since their arrival in the 9th century. They originally reached the Swahili through peaceful trade.
What is Islam?
Christianity has deep roots in this place.
What is the Ethiopian Highlands?
This Ethnic group retains their distinct identity and language despite growing Arab and Islamic popularity.
What is the Amazigh?
Ashanti people blend animism with these two religions occasionally.
What is Christianity and Islam?
Ritual specialists complete these important jobs within their communities.
What is healing, diagnosing illnesses, resolving conflicts, and guiding important life transitions?
This term describes the language of the Swahili being major spread and extremely important. It is the official language of countries like Tanzania and Kenya.
What is lingua franca?
Missionaries spread Christianity around the Great Lakes region, Central and southern Africa, and built schools and clinics along river and lakes such as these two during a certain time period.
What is the Congo river, Lake Victoria, and the 1800s?