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Africa Misc
It's contagious!
100
German historian who wrote 'Philosophy of History' and claimed that "Africa is not a historical continent."
Who is Hegel
100
The poet and title of the poem from where Achebe got the title of his novel
Who is Yeats and The Second Coming
100
During the New Kingdom the famous ______________ appeared which described how Egyptians could influence their own afterlife.
What is the Book of the Dead
100
A feature is unique to African rivers?
What are cataracts or rapids
100
Contributed to collapse of Han Empire and Roman Empire, killed 24 million Europeans from 1347-1351 ce
What is the bubonic plague
200
Oxford professor who, in 1963, stated that 'only European history counts' and that African history was 'unrewarding' b/c they are a 'barbarous tribe' and 'irrelevant'
Who is Hugh Trevor-Roper
200
The embodiment of the ancestral spirits to the Igbo people
What is the egwugwu
200
He was one of the rulers of Mali, noted for his pilgrimage to Mecca, promoted Islam and spent so much gold it drove the price down.
Who is Mansa Musa
200
What event came to be known as the Scramble for Africa? Berlin Conference
What was the Berlin Conference
200
Know as chronic diseases which are not transmitted by pathogens (such as cardiovascular disease and lung cancer)
What are noncommunicable diseases
300
Group of people who where early settlers in the USA, believed that God chose them for a special mission and whose beliefs led to racist views towards Africans.
Who are Calvinists
300
Identify the other 2 events that lead to Okonkwo's downfall: 1. Beats his wife during week of peace 2. 3.
What is killing Ikemefuna and killing the DC messenger
300
Shrine in Mecca that houses about 360 manifestations of various gods and goddesses of traditional Arab religion
What is the Ka'bah
300
Chest storing the Ten Commandments; holy object in Judaism and Christianity; said to have been brought to Axum by Menelik I and stored in the Chapel of the Tablet at the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion
What is the Ark of the Covenant
300
Communicable disease that infected humans 12,000 years ago, 1/2 population of Ancient Athens killed in 430 BCE, ravaged Inca and Aztec populations.
What is smallbox
400
Palestinian-American scholar, founder of post colonial studies, and coined the term Orientalism
Who is Edward Said
400
Title and focus of Chimamanda Adichie's TED talk
What is The Danger of a Single Story
400
A Moor who in 1518 was captured by pirates, given to the Pope as a gift and wrote Description of Africa about the Songhay
Who was Leo Africanus
400
Belief that European cultures are superior and should govern other less advanced areas of the world; justified imperialism, slavery, and other atrocities
What is Eurocentrism
400
Term that refers to the rapid increase in cases of disease on a population within a given area
What is an epidemic (note, this is the middle version...first is endemic and third is pandemic)
500
Prominent abolitionist and ex-slave whose book illustrated the horrors of slavery
Who was Olaudah Equiano
500
Ama Ata Aidoo's story about grandma going to the big city to collect her living or dead granddaughter and her baby.
What is the short story The Message
500
The orthodox view of the relationship between Jesus the human and Jesus the God approved by Christian leaders in 325.
What is the Nicene Creed
500
Shona structure comprising three areas: the Great Enclosure, Acropolis, and subjects’ dwellings....House of Stone
What is the Great Zimbabwe
500
Infectious pathogen (organism capable of causing disease) that lives and grows within a host's body without causing any symptoms or immune response
What is colonization (colonization...get it? Africa!) :)