Locations
This is the region where the Arab ethnic group settled.
What is northern Africa?
A group of people who share a belief in the same god(s).
What is a religious group?
These are the two main religious groups in Africa.
What are Muslim and Christian?
This many languages are spoken in Africa.
What are 1,500 - 2,000 languages?
This is how many ethnic groups are in Africa.
What is about 3,000?
This is where the Bantu people are located.
What are central and southern Africa?
This word means “the people.”
What is “bantu”?
This is the religion did Arab traders brought to Africa.
What is Islam?
This is the language commonly spoken in Northern Africa.
What is Arabic?
According to legend, this ethnic group has a sacred golden stool.
What are the Ashanti?
This group of people live on a narrow strip of land in eastern Africa.
Who are the Swahili?
This is the word for people who belong to the Islam religion.
What is “Muslim”?
This is the belief that plants, animals, and trees have souls.
What is animism?
Most African languages can be traced to this ethnic group.
What is the Bantu?
This is the main sacred text in Islam.
What is the Quran?
Their migration was one of the largest movements of people in Africa’s history.
Who are the Bantu?
This word means “one who lives on the coast.”
What is “swahili”?
This religion is practiced by the majority of Swahili people.
What is Islam?
The language commonly spoken by the Ashanti.
What is Asante, or Twi?
The Bantu have been in Angola since about this year.
What is 50,000 BCE?
These are the countries where most Ashanti live.
What are Ghana and Ivory Coast?
A community of people who share a common culture, ancestry, customs, and language.
What is an ethnic group?
These are the two main groups in Islam.
Who are the Sunni and Shi’a?
The Swahili language has ties to these other languages.
What are Bantu and Arabic?
This is the number of people who are part of the Bantu culture today.
What is 70 million?