Arab
The language of the Arabs. Also spoken in Northern Sudan.
What is Arabic?
The language of the Swahili.
What is Kiswahili?
THe Ashanti Empire formally united in this year.
What is 1701?
Over many centuries, Bantu-speaking communities gradually migrated...
What is eastward and southward?
Ethnic identity is based on these four things.
What is shared ancestry, language, cultural practices, and historical experience?
The religion of most Arabs.
what is Islam?
This is a key part in Swahili religion.
What is Islam?
The Ashanti are also this meaning descent and inheritance follow the mother’s lineage.
What is matrilineal?
This is what the Bantu brought with them when they migrated.
What is farming techniques, ironworking skills, cattle herding practices, and new forms of social organization?
Religious identity is based on these few things.
What are shared beliefs, sacred texts, and systems of worship?
The holy book of Islam.
What is the Qur'an?
Famous Swahili city-states included...
What is Kilwa, Mombasa, Malindi, Gede, Lamu, and Zanzibar?
The resources gold, cocoa, timber, and fertile farmland allowed the Ashanti to become one of these in precolonial times.
What is one of West Africa’s strongest kingdoms?
The Bantu Peoples languages and traditions span these regions.
What is Central Africa, East Africa, and Southern Africa?
Across Africa live more than this many ethnic groups.
What is 3,000?
Arab communities in Africa live primarily here...
What is North Africa?
These city-states became wealthy by trading these resources.
What is ivory, gold, spices, tortoise shell, and porcelain?
The Ashanti religion consists of these two, sometimes three, religions.
What is animism with Christianity and/or Islam?
This enormous region where the Bantu Peoples live contains these environments.
What is rainforests, savannas, mountains, river valleys, and coastal plains?
The people of Africa speak over this many different languages.
What is 2,000?
They stretch across these countries.
only one country is needed for correct answer.
What is Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, northern Sudan, or parts of Mauritania?
These are independent urban centers that govern themselves like small sovereign nations, controlling the surrounding land and their own trade networks.
What is a City-State
The place were the Ashanti live.
What is Kumasi and/or eastern Ivory Coast?
The Bantu migration began at this time.
What is 2000 CE?
The most influential religious traditions in Africa today are...
What is animism, Islam, and
Christianity?