Arab
The environment strongly influences architecture, clothing, food, and ________________.
What is settlement paterns?
Religion among the Ashanti blends animism with ___________ and sometimes ______.
What is Christianity, Islam?
Many Bantu communities share an emphasis on music, dance, oral storytelling, and _____________.
What is communal rituals?
________, the Swahili language, is a Bantu language spoken by more than 100 million people.
What is Kiswahili?
What is A community of people who share common cultural traits?
What is an Ethnic group?
____ cultural traditions today still reflect the landscapes of North Africa.
What is Arab?
Ashanti society is ___________, meaning descent and inheritance follow the mother’s lineage.
What is matrilineal?
The Bantu brought farming techniques, ironworking skills, cattle herding practices, and new forms of _________________.
What is social organization?
_____ reached the Swahili coast through peaceful trade beginning around the 9th century.
What is Islam?
What is A group of people who share the same beliefs about faith, gods, sacred texts, and ways of worship?
What is a Religious group?
The ______________ trade in gold and salt connected
Arab merchants to West African states.
Ashanti cultural traditions are closely tied to their ____________.
What is homeland?
Traditional Bantu religions focus on ancestor veneration and maintaining harmony between the ________ and ________ worlds.
What is physical, spiritual?
Swahili cultural life reflects both _______ and Middle Eastern influences.
What is African?
What Ethnic group is mostly populated on the northern side of Africa?
What is Arab?
Arabic-speaking peoples arrived in large numbers during the ___s and ___s CE.
What is 600, 700?
The Ashanti Empire formally united in 1701 with the appearance of the ____________.
What is Golden Stool?
Bantu migrations began around ____ BCE in the region of modern Nigeria and Cameroon.
What is 2000?
________ uses Bantu grammar but includes many loanwords from Arabic as well as from Persian, Hindi, and Portuguese.
What is Kiswahili?
What Ethnic group speaks Kiswahili?
Arab communities in Africa live primarily in _____ Africa.
What is North?
The Ashanti people live mainly in the forested interior of _____________ Ghana.
What is south-central?
The Bantu-speaking peoples represent one of the most widespread ________ families in Africa.
What is cultural?
Merchants built _______, formed trading communities, and helped unify coastal towns known as city-states.
What is mosque?
Which Ethnic group's cultural traditions are closely tied to their homelands?
What is Ashanti?