Arabs
Where do Arab communities primarily live?
What is Northern Africa?
What is the Ashanti homeland?
When did Bantu migrations begin?
What is 2000 BCE?
Where do the Swahili people live?
What is the East African coast?
How did Islam spread?
What is Indian Ocean trade routes?
What did the trans-Saharan area trade?
What is salt and gold?
What is the Ashanti homeland rich in?
What is gold, cocoa, timber, and fertile farmland?
Where did Bantu migrations begin?
What is Nigeria and Cameroon?
About how many people speak Kiswahili?
What is 100 million people?
What is animism?
What does the area of North Africa influence?
What is architecture, clothing, food, and settlement patterns?
When did the Ashanti Empire formally unite?
What is the appearance of the Golden Stool in 1701?
How were the villages connected?
What are related languages and trade?
When and how did Islam reach the Swahili coast?
What is peaceful trade around the 9th century?
Where is Islam strongest?
What is North Africa, the Sahel, the Horn of Africa, and the Swahili Coast?
Name at least three major centers of learning and trade.
What is Cairo, Alexandria, Tunis, Tripoli, Algiers, Fez, and Marrakesh?
What did the empires location allow it to do?
What is gaining wealth and political power because of goods like gold, kola nuts, and other resources moving through their territory?
What do traditional Bantu religions focus on?
What is ancestor veneration and maintaining harmony between the physical and spiritual worlds?
Name at least two countries in which the Swahili people primarily live.
What is Kenya, Tanzania, Northern Mozambique, Zanzibar, Pemba, Mafia, and Lamu?
Where does Christianity have major followings?
What is Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, and South Africa?
When did the Arabic-speaking people arrive in Africa and what did they bring with them?
What is 600s and 700s CE, bringing Islam, the Arabic language, new architectural styles, and a scholarly tradition tied to the Quran?
What is the festival that is held every six weeks and what does it do?
What is the Akwasidae festival, which honors ancestors and brings together chiefs, drummers, dancers, and community members in Kumasi and surrounding villages?
Where did the Bantu settle and what did they bring?
What is clearing land for crops along rivers, bringing farming techniques, ironworking skills, cattle herding practices, and new forms of social organization?
Name at least four famous Swahili city-states and how they became wealthy.
What is Kilwa, Mombasa, Malindi, Gede, Lamu, and Zanzibar became wealthy through trading ivory, gold, spices, tortoise shell, and porcelain with merchants from India, Arabia, and Europe.
Where are the roots of Christianity?
What is the Ethiopian Highlands, where the Kingdom of Aksum adopted the Christian faith in the 300s CE?