Religion
The religion brought to Africa by the Arabs.
What is Islam?
Lives in the Northern region of Africa.
Where do the Arabs live?
Hospitality, poetry, storytelling, Qur’anic recitation, and public festivals.
What are Arab traditions?
The language the Arabs speak.
What is Arabic?
A large amount of the Arabs to Africa in this time frame.
When was the 600s and 700s CE(AD)?
The main Swahili religion
What is Islam?
They live in the Eastern and coastal regions of Africa.
Where do the Swahili people live?
They celebrate the Akwasidae festival.
Who are the Ashanti?
The Asante dialect (Twi).
What language do the Ashanti people speak?
Stone Town in Zanzibar(a coastal town) is a historical site for these peoples.
Who are the Swahili peoples?
The belief that spirits inhabit natural features, and that ancestors continue to influence the living.
What is animism?
One of the most widespread ethnic groups in Africa.
Who are the Bantu?
Their society is matrilineal.
Who are the Ashanti people?
The language spoken by the Bantu people.
What is Bantu dialect?
They developed by interacting with local Bantu-speaking communities and traders from Arabia, Persia, India, and more.
Who are the Swahili?
Their religion is focused on ancestor veneration and the harmony between the physical and spiritual world. Christianity and Islam have also spread throughout this group, creating a wide blend of religion.
Who is the Bantu?/What is the Bantu religion?
They moved from the Sahara to cities like Timbuktu.
Who are the Arabs?
Music, dance, oral storytelling, and communal rituals.
What are traditions of the Bantu people?
The Kiswahili language.
Language spoken by the Swahili people.
The Bantu group.
What group began around 2000 BCE in the region of modern Nigeria and Cameroon?
The main religion of the Ashanti people.
What is a blend of animism, Christianity, and Islam?
Where the Ashanti people mainly live.
What is the interior of south-central Ghana?
Coconut rice, spiced fish stews, grilled seafood, chapati, and foods flavored with cloves, cardamom, ginger, and tamarind.
What is traditional Swahili cuisine?
Habari? (Swahili to English)
How are you?
Their empire was formally united in 1701. Goods like gold, kola nuts, and other resources helped them to gain wealth and political power.
Who are the Ashanti? or What is the Ashanti Empire?