Social Studies Terms
An academic discipline that helps one understand themselves and the world around them.
What is social studies?
The study of the people of the African Diaspora, particularly African Americans, how they became Americans, and how they have influenced and shaped American society.
What is African American Studies?
Supporting your argument, backing it up, pointing to relevant or important facts and details.
What is evidence?
These people have over 500 descendant ethnic groups and languages all throughout Western, Central, and East Africa.
What are the Bantu people?
This leader was well-known for his wealth, status, and power in West Africa in the 1300s.
Who is Mansa Musa?
The study of money, markets, labor and trade and how it impacts society.
What is economics?
This state banned AP African American Studies.
The background, details, and prior information needed to fully understanding something.
What is context?
This unique feature of Africa is a large desert covering most of the northern part of the continent.
What is the Sahara?
The blending of religious practices and beliefs.
What is syncretism?
The study of the environment and how it shapes and affects society.
What is geography?
This time period (decades) was the beginning of African American Studies as a college course.
What is the 1960s and 1970s
Making connections to think logically and support a conclusion.
What is reasoning?
These people are known for their writing system, pottery, and trade in gold, ivory, and incense.
What is Ancient Nubia/Kush?
This coastal location in East Africa was ideal for trading, and wealthy city-states emerged there.
What is the Swahili Coast?
The study of governments, how they function, and how people interact with that system.
What is civics?
The first Black Studies National Conference was held in this year.
What is 1975?
Events, the results of those events, and the reasons those events happened.
What is cause and effect?
Complex societies rose up around this geographical feature of Africa.
What is the Nile River?
This Kingdom made a deal with the Portuguese that exchanged military assistance for access to enslaved people, leading to the growth of the international slave trade?
What is Kongo?
The study of the past, why it matters, how it happened, and how it affects the present.
What is history?
The movement and dispersion of African people across the world.
What is the African Diaspora?
How things either stay the same or shift throughout a given time period.
What is continuity and change over time?
A storyteller who carried the histories, narratives, and traditions in many African societies.
What is a Griot?
For this reason, the Portuguese and other European powers increased the slave trade and the number of people they were taking from Africa to the Americas.
What is plantation agriculture?