What is APAAS?
The first Ethnic Studies and African American Studies programs were founded in the late 1960s and early 1970s at major universities in the US in response to what contemporaneous development?
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
The __________ Expansion involved the spread of ethnic groups and their languages from West Africa to Eastern and Southern Africa between 1500 BCE and 500 CE.
What is the Bantu Expansion?
The "Black Pharaohs" of the 7th and 8th century BCE hailed from this civilization/kingdom, located to the south of the ancient Egyptian heartland.
What is Kush/Nubia?
This 14th century king of Mali is generally viewed as one of the wealthiest individuals in all of human history
Who was Mansa Musa?
In traditional indigenous religious ceremonies and dances in West Africa (for example, among the Dogon people of Mali), masks were worn to represent these entities.
What are nature spirits and ancestor spirits?
The conservative leadership of this state banned AP African American studies from being taught in high school classrooms in early 2023.
What is Florida?
These five climatic areas make up the African continent (need all five to receive the points...)
What are...
1. Desert
2. Sahel
3. Savanna
4. Tropical Rainforest
5. Mediterranean
In ancient Egyptian cosmology, a person's essence or spirit (also known as _________) was represented by their heart. When they died, this was weighed against a feather - if it was lighter, they could go to the Land of Reeds; if it was heavier, they would be consumed by Ammit.
What is Maat?
Ghana's control of trans-Saharan trading routes beginning in the 8th century CE was predicated on the use of this large domesticated mammal - sometimes called the "ship of the desert" - being reintroduced to Africa.
What is the dromedary camel?
These storytellers and singers in West Africa have played a large role in commemorating the achievements of rulers, such as Sunjata/Sundiata the Great, founder of Mali.
Who are the griots? (Also accept Jali)
African American studies brings together history, archaeology, cultural anthropology, and a number of other disciplines related to the humanities. This is because it is an _____________ course.
What is "interdisciplinary"?
These three rivers are the largest and most important in Africa (need all three)
What are...
1. the Nile
2. the Congo
3. the Niger
The kings of Aksum in what is today Ethiopia built these monumental structures in order to commemorate their reigns.
What are Stelae? (Accept obelisk or monoliths)
This final Sudanic empire of the late medieval/early modern period was defeated by the Moroccans in battle in 1591 and never recovered.
What is the Songhai Empire?
This much-maligned syncretic religious tradition played a role in organizing resistance to French colonial rule in Saint Domingue, culminating the Haitian Revolution of 1791.
What is Voodou/Vodun?
This word refers to a scattering or dispersal of human beings (sometimes coercively - by forced migration, exile, or slavery)
What is diaspora?
This fossil of an early hominin, discovered in the 1990s, hails from Ethiopia and has been carbon dated to more than four million years old!
Who is “Ardi” – Ardipithecus ramidus?
The Nok society of West Africa was noteworthy/famous for pioneering this skill - possibly independently of other groups that had achieved this (like the Hittites of modern Turkey).
What is iron-smelting/iron-working/iron metallurgy?
The Great Enclosure was likely used for which purpose by the rulers of Zimbabwe?
What are...
1. Granary
2. Defensible Walls
3. Religious and Ceremonial purposes
The Swahili people represent a blending or melding of these cultural, religious, and ethnic groups in the Indian Ocean world.
Who are indigenous, Bantu-speaking East Africans with Muslim Arab traders?
In 1963, this professor stated: "Perhaps, in the future, there will be some African history to teach. But at present there is none, or very little: there is only the history of the Europeans in Africa. The rest is largely darkness... [T]hen indeed we may neglect our own history and amuse ourselves with the unrewarding gyrations of barbarous tribes in picturesque but irrelevant corners of the globe."
Africa contains more than this number of ethnic groups.
This king of Aksum - an early adopter of Christianity - had his face commemorated on coinage in the 4th century CE.
Who was King Ezana?
According to tradition, this Ghanian remnant polity was defeated by Sunjata/Sundiata in order to found the Kingdom of Mali in the 13th Century
What is the Sosso Kingdom?
This Kongolese woman was convinced that she had been visited and instructed by St. Anthony, compelling her to mount an effort to restore the unity of her people after decades of civil war.
Who was Kimpa Vita/Dona Beatriz?