Arabs
What language do the Arabs Speak?
Arabic
What do the Bantu speaking people represent?
one of the most widespread cultural families in Africa
Which coast do the Swahili people live along?
The East African coast
Where do the Ashanti people in Africa mainly live?
the forested interior of south-central Ghana
What are Africa's major religious traditions?
animism, Christianity, and Islam
African Arabs primarily live in where?
North Africa
Over many centuries, Bantu-speaking communities gradually migrated where?
eastward and southward
Swahili cultural life reflects which two influences?
Where are Ashanti cultural traditions closely tied?
Their homeland
True or false? Even when people identify today as Christian or Muslim, many still observe animist practices?
True
When did Large groups of Arabic speaking people come to Africa?
When did Bantu migrations begin?
around 2000 BCE
When did Islam reach the Swahili coast?
around the 9th century
When did the Ashanti Empire formally unite?
1701
What is animism?
the belief that spirits inhabit natural features such as rivers, trees, mountains, rocks, animals, and that ancestors continue to influence the living
Arab cultural traditions still reflect landscapes of where today?
North Africa
Where did Bantu migrations begin?
the region of modern Nigeria and Cameroon
How did Islam reach the Swahili coast?
through peaceful trading
What does religion of Ashanti blend?
Animism with Christianity and Islam
When did missionaries spread Christianity across the Great Lakes region, Central Africa, and Southern Africa?
the 1800s
What did the trans-Saharan trade in gold and salt connect?
Arab merchants to West African states
Where do the Bantu peoples languages and traditions span?
Central Africa (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congo-Brazzaville, Gabon, Cameroon), East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda), and Southern Africa (South Africa,Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, Angola)
Famous Swahili states include?
Kilwa, Mombasa, Malindi, Gede, Lamu, and Zanzibar
What is the Golden Stool?
a sacred symbol believed to carry the soul of the entire Ashanti nation
Where is Islam strongest in Africa?
North Africa, the Sahel, the Horn of Africa, and the Swahili Coast