Northern Africa
The sacred book of Islam.
What is the Quran (Koran)?
A group of families descended from a common ancestor.
What is a lineage?
A Bantu language spoken in much of East Africa or an ethnic group in East Africa that resulted from the mixing of African and Arab ways.
What is Swahili?
A family relationship (what village societies in interior areas of Central Africa are organized by).
What is kinship?
The former legal system of South Africa in which the rights of nonwhites were greatly restricted.
What is apartheid?
The Muslim name for God.
What is Allah?
In order to communicate with each other, most West Africans have to do this.
What is speak multiple languages?
If you ask someone from East Africa, "Where is home?" they are likely to say this.
What is the village that they or their ancestors are originally from?
What is poor?
The reason that hundreds of thousands of people came to South Africa.
What is mining work?
Two dominant elements of culture that unify the different people of North Africa.
What are language (Arabic) and religion (Islam)?
What are cultural values?
Swahili is important because it is used for ______________ and _________________.
What are business and communication?
The reason that countries along the Atlantic Coast are wealthier that other parts of Central Africa.
What is the possession of large oil reserves?
The living and working conditions for migrant workers in South Africa.
What were small fenced in homes to live in and dangerous working conditions with low wages?
North Africa has been a hub of trade for these three areas.
What are Europe, Asia, and other parts of Africa?
The reason that Western African culture has had the greatest influence on American culture.
What is that most slaves were brought to America from West Africa?
An example of how East Africa's proximity to the Indian Ocean has affected its cultural diversity.
What is exposure to different cultures through trade and migration?
Name at least three of the Central African countries that have significant oil reserves.
What are Angola, Congo, Gabon, Cameroon, and Equatorial Guinea?
Three main European ethnic groups that came to Southern Africa.
What are the British, Dutch (Afrikaners), and Portuguese?
The five major pillars of Islam.
What are declaration of faith (creed), prayer, almsgiving, fasting, and pilgrimage?
Societies that trace ancestry through female ancestors are called _______________ and societies that trace ancestry through male ancestors are called ________________.
What are matrilineal and patrilineal?
Two of the most fertile areas in East Africa.
What are the Ethiopian Highlands and the Great Rift Valley?
Four common religions in Central Africa.
What are Roman Catholic, Protestant, Islam, Christian/Traditional African blend?
Three main reasons that Europeans came to Southern Africa.
What are capturing slaves, growing wheat and herding cattle, and starting a mining industry?