Political/Economic: Africa
Religion/Social: Africa
Geography/Environment: Africa
Culture/Art/Intellectual: Africa
Compare and Contrast
100
The importance of ancestral spirits, constant messages from the other world, pantheistic
What are the features of Bantu religion?
100
The cause of less productive agriculture/poor soil in Africa
What is the persistent warm temperatures?
100
The language spoken by the groups of people who spread throughout most of southern and eastern Africa by the classical era
What is Bantu?
100
The vast majority of the world's people lived here in the classical era
What is Eurasia?
200
This was an important advantage Bantu-speaking farmers had over the hunting and gathering groups they encountered
What is ironworking technology?
200
This society was less patriarchal and associated female roles with village life and male roles with hunting and forest life
What is the Bantu?
200
This was a point of contact between Eurasia and Africa
What is Arabia?
200
The Bantu generated over 400 languages, including this one
What is Swahili?
200
Unlike cities in other civilizations, cities in the Niger Valley civilization lacked this
What is the coercive authority of a state?
300
The Bantu came to regard this group as the "forest specialists" and eventually claimed common ancestry with them
What is the Batwa?
300
Through trade connections in the Red Sea and Rome, Axum was introduced to this religion
What is Christianity?
300
New foods, domesticated animals, Christianity, international trade
What are the ways in which contact with Eurasia influenced African development?
300
The spread of agriculture, over 400 languages, spread of ironworking technologies, ancestor observances
What are major contributions of the Bantu migration to African history and culture?
300
The Maya and Axum were similar in that both possessed...
What are written scripts?
400
Both cultures changed, mutual respect developed, trade between them thrived
What describes the interaction between the Bantu and the Batwa?
400
The Coptic Church in Egypt
Christianity in Axum was most closely identified with which church?
400
migration from the Sahara, good soil and fresh water, trade network in West Africa
What contributed to the development of civilizations in the Niger Valley?
400
Respect for women as holders of secret knowledge was demonstrated by these
What are the Bantu wooden carvings?
400
Mesoamerican and Andean cultures were similar in that both were...
What is "dominated by cities rather than an empire"?
500
The shift of long-distance trade from the Nile Valley to the Red sea caused...
What is the decline of Meroë and the rise of Axum?
500
This term describes the belief that God is not a remote creator but rather is present in all living things
What is pantheism?
500
The Wari and Tiwanaku appeared to get along even though they shared this
What is a common border?
500
The culture of Meroë showed a shift away from the influence of this country
What is Egypt?
500
Being rooted in corn-based agriculture introduced from Mesoamerica is what these two cultures had in common
What are the cultures in the Chaco canyon region and the cultures in the Mississippi River valley?
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