Africa: The big picture
What continent is considered the birthplace of humanity
Africa
This large-scale movement originated in West Africa and caused a long lasting migration of peoples across Africa?
What is the Bantu Migration
This is the largest hot desert in the world, one of Africa's most notable places.
What is the Sahara Desert
What is the passing down of history and traditions through storytelling and spoken word called
What is oral storytelling
This term describes the multiple ways African American studies is taught and studied. It describes how the course goes over literature, music, entertainment, science etc.
What is multidisciplinary studies.
What makes Africa different from being considered one single, uniform culture?
Africa has thousands of different cultures, languages, and societies.
One of these 2 modern day countries in west Africa are where the origins of the Bantu migration began. (Must name 1)
Nigeria or Cameroon
This major river helped support the development of ancient societies in northeastern Africa
What is the Nile River.
Objects such as tools, pottery, buildings, and human remains that historians study to learn about the past are called these
What is an artifact
FreeBEE
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What region of Africa is located south of the Sahara Desert?
Sub-Saharan Africa
This process involves heating iron ore to extremely high temperatures to extract usable iron, allowing African societies to produce stronger tools and weapons
What is iron smelting
How could geographic features like deserts, rainforest and mountains affect migration?
They could make crop cultivation, travel and migration more difficult.
What word describes how political, economic, religious, and family life were connected within many African societies?
Interconnected
This term describes the worldwide movement and dispersal of African peoples from the African continent to other parts of the world through migration, trade, and forced displacement
The African Diaspora
What term describes the many different cultures, languages, and societies found across Africa?
Cultural diversity
These two important technologies or practices helped Bantu-speaking peoples expand into new areas
Agriculture and iron working
This type of geography/environment consists mainly of grasslands with scattered trees
What is the Savanna
What do the Bantu Migration and African Diaspora have in common?
Both involved the movement of African people and the spread of African cultures and traditions
This 1968 student strike at successfully demanded the creation of a Black Studies department, helping establish African American Studies as an academic field?
San Francisco State College/University
Name two ways African societies differed from one another.
Language, religion, political systems, economies, social structures, or traditions.
Two reasons Bantu-speaking peoples may have migrated to new areas
Population growth, environmental changes, search for fertile land, or search for resources.
How could rivers and other geographic features help connect African societies?
What is providing transportation, resources, trade routes, and opportunities for interaction.
Why were oral traditions important to African societies
They preserved history, beliefs, traditions, and cultural knowledge.
This poem made during the Harlem expresses the speaker’s feeling of being an outsider and disconnected from the society around him, reflecting themes of alienation and identity.
Outcast by Claude McKay