What Is African American Studies?
The African Continent: A Varied Landscape
Population Growth and Ethnolinguistic Diversity
Africa’s Ancient Societies
The Sudanic Empires: Ghana, Mali, and Songhai
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This decade’s Civil Rights and Black Power movements helped lead to the creation of African American Studies programs.
What is the 1960s?
100
Africa is divided into five primary climate zones, including desert, savannah grasslands, and this type of rainforest.
What is tropical rainforest?
100
This group of people spread their languages and cultures across Africa.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: This spread is known as the ________.
Who are the Bantu-speaking peoples?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: Bantu expansion
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Egypt and Nubia emerged along this river around 3000 BCE, becoming some of Africa’s earliest complex societies.
What is the Nile River?
100
This resource was essential to the wealth and power of the Ghana, Mali, and Songhai empires.
What is gold?
200
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What is a Schedule of Courses for Black and Puerto Rican Studies?
(Hunter College, 1972)
200
The African continent is bordered by major bodies of water including this ocean on the eastern side.
What is the Indian Ocean?
200
The migration of Bantu-speaking peoples throughout Africa led to the development of hundreds of these across the continent.
What are languages?
200
This society developed its own currency and script.
What is Aksum?
200
This Mali emperor is known for his pilgrimage to Mecca and for establishing Mali as a center for trade and learning.
Who is Mansa Musa?
300
The Black Campus movement saw protests at hundreds of colleges, demanding more opportunities to study this.
What is Black history or the history and experiences of Black people?
300
These features, including the Sahara and Sahel, affected trade routes and settlement patterns throughout African history.
What are climate zones or geographic features?
300
A significant part of African Americans’ genetic heritage can be traced to the linguistic group from this region.
What is West and Central Africa?
300
This West African society is known for its naturalistic terracotta sculptures and early ironworking practices.
What is the Nok society?
300
These trade routes brought scholars, traders, and administrators from North Africa to West Africa, spreading this religion.
What is Islam?
400
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: The significant social and political movements that influenced the emergence of Black/Latino Studies in the early 1970s. (Hint: 3 answers)
What were the Black Power Movement, Pan-Africanism, and the Civil Rights Movement?
400
Water sources like the Nile River helped early African societies flourish by supporting this essential practice.
What is agriculture?
400
This type of innovation, including the development of tools and farming techniques, contributed to Bantu expansion.
What are technological and agricultural innovations?
400
This empire emerged around 100 BCE, connecting trade routes across the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean.
What is the The Aksumite Empire (Eritrea and Ethiopia)?
400
The trans-Saharan trade shifted to this type of trade route following Portuguese exploration along the African coast.
What is the Atlantic trade route?
500
African American Studies combines this approach with scholarly rigor to analyze the history, culture, and contributions of African-descended people.
What is an interdisciplinary approach?
500
Trade routes were greatly facilitated by these bodies of water near Africa, which connected regions beyond the continent.
What are the Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Atlantic Ocean, and Indian Ocean?
500
Major crops like bananas, yams, and grains supported population growth and led to the Bantu migration across Africa starting around this year.
What is 1500 BCE?
500
Aksum was the first African society to adopt this religion, under the rule of King Ezana.
What is Christianity?
500
The majority of enslaved Africans transported to North America originated from West African regions influenced by this empire.
What were the Sudanic empires?