Arabs
What is the primary language that Arabs in Africa speak?
What is Arabic
What type of environment interior do Ashanti people primarily live in?
What is forested
When mainly did Bantu migrations began?
What is 2000 CE
Where do the Swahili people live?
What is the East Coast of Africa
What is Animism?
What is the belief that spirits inhabit natural features and ancestors influence the living
What part of Africa do the Arabs primarily live in?
What is North Africa
What symbol was believed to carry the soul of the entire Ashanti nation?
What is The Golden Stool
What part of Africa do Bantu languages and traditions span?
What is Central Africa
What is the Swahili language called?
What is Kiswahili
What is a broad way in how people in Africa have blended mixed beliefs?
They continue to go to cultural celebrations while also going to their Church or Mosque
When did Arabic speaking people arrive to Africa in large numbers?
What is the 600s and 700s CE
What type of society do the Ashanti have where descent and inheritance follows the mother's lineage?
What is matrilineal
What do traditional Bantu religions focus on?
What is ancestor respect and maintaining harmony
In which century did Islam reach the Swahili coast through peaceful trade?
What is the 9th century
What does the Animist ritual famadihana honor?
What is departed relatives
What trans-Saharan trade connected Arab merchants to West Africa?
What is trade in gold and salt
What is the festival that is held every six weeks to honor ancestors and bring together communities?
What is the Akwasidae festival
What could a typical weekend of a Bantu person be?
What is church services and cultural gatherings
What helped the Swahili connect to traders in Arabia, Persia, and India?
What is trans-Saharan trade routes
What linked North Africa to sub-saharan kingdoms and spread Islamic scholarship?
What is when trade caravans with scholarly traditions tied to the Quran crossed the Sahara and went through cities
What do the traditional beliefs of the Ashanti people focus on?
Excluding music, dance, and oral storytelling, what other practices do Bantu communities have emphasis on?
What is communial rituals
How did being on the East Coast effect Swahili culture?
What is seafood cuisine, and intricately carved designs in houses and buildings made with coral stone
How has culture and foreign religions influenced people of Africa and blended everything together?
What is how each part of Africa from the coast to rural communities are mixed with culture and feels like each part coexists in overlapping harmony