Arabs
Arabs primarily live in this location.
What is Northern Africa
Place where the Ashanti people mainly live.
What is the forested interior of south-central Ghana
The enormous region the Bantu people call their home include these physical features.
What is rainforests, savannas, Mountains, river valleys, and coastal plains
The Swahili people generally live in this area.
What is the East African coast
The four things are what ethnic identity is based on.
What is shared ancestry, language, cultural practices, and historical experience
Type of routes that helped create a shared cultural zone.
What is trade routes
The Ashanti peoples' homeland is a zone that is...
What is tropical forest, rich in gold, cocoa, and fertile farmland
The Bantu migrations occurred in this time period.
What is around 2000 BCE
What is Kiswahili
True or False: There can be different religions within an ethnic group.
What is... True
The years Arabic-speaking people arrived in large numbers.
What is the 600s and 700s CE
The year the Ashanti Empire formally untied in this year.
What is 1701
Today this is the amount of people that speak the Bantu languages.
What is more than 200 million people
Today Swahili serves as a major ______ ______ across East Africa and is an official or national language in several countries, including Tanzania and Kenya. (answer in blank)
What is lingua franca
True or False: Arabs speak Arabic.
What is True
Another group that continues to maintain distinct identities and language.
What is the Amazigh
This word describes the Ashanti society.
What is matrilineal
These two religious groups have greatly spread among this ethnic group.
What is Christianity and Islam
In around this century Islam reached the Swahili coast.
What is the 9th century
True or False: Kiswahili include many loanwords from Persian, Hindi, and Portuguese.
What is true
The clothing in northern Africa is perfectly designed for their _________ climate. (answer in blank)
What is Hot,dry
These religions are blended in the Ashanti culture.
What is animism with Christianity and sometimes Islam
Traditional Bantu religions focus on these specific ideologies.
What is ancestor veneration and maintaining harmony between the physical and spiritual worlds
These two influences are inflicted on by Swahili cultural life.
What is both African and Middle Eastern
Famous Swahili city-states included Kilwa, Mombasa, Malindi, Gede, Lamu, and Zanzibar. These cities became wealthy by trading gold, spices, tortoise shell, and porcelain, how did these cities get these delivered.
What is Merchants from Arabia, India, and later Europe