Vocabulary I
A peninsula in Africa that contains the countries Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia
What is the Horn of Africa?
A group of families united by a common ancestry or language
What are tribes?
True or false: Walking from the two ends of Sub Saharan Africa would take someone across many climate zones, including steppes, savannah, forests and rainforests, desert, and temperate highlands?
What is true?
True or False: The Khosian people typically spoke non-Bantu languages
What is True?
Definition of desertification
What is the process of a grassland turning into a desert
The act of dividing your land evenly among your heirs when you die
What is partible inheritance?
The region of Africa at risk of desertification
What is the Sahel region?
True or false: There was little cultural diversity in Sub-Saharan Africa
What is False?
A tropical or subtropical grassland, either with few or no trees
What is a savannah?
Treeless plains which usually have little rain and are covered by coarse grasses
What is steppes?
Name three of the four borders of Sub Saharan Africa
What is the Atlantic Ocean, Indian ocean, Sahara desert, and Red Sea?
An ethnic group that occupied present day Nigeria and were known for many artistic and technological advancements
What are the Yoruba people?
The shallow part of a river where many rocks protrude from the water
What are cataracts?
The term used by historians for a localized set of customs and beliefs adhered to a single society
What are Small Traditions?
What is a tropical rainforest?
The main way that culture in Sub-Saharan Africa was spread
What is folk migration?
A historians term for a literate, well institutionalized, complex group of religious and social beliefs and practices over a large geographical area and diverse cultures
What are great traditions?
The great rift valley is a low-lying valley caused by the separation of these
What are tectonic plates?
The spread of ideas and culture was more difficult in Sub Saharan Africa compared to many parts of the world in large part due to the size of the region leading to different climate zones. Around how many degrees of latitude does Sub-Saharan Africa stretch?
What is 50 degrees?
Djenne-Djenno was an ancient town that was one of the first urbanized centers ever. Name either the crop that was domesticated there, or the metal produced there
What is rice or iron?