Interesting Africa
Give the name of the subdesert area located between the Sahara Desert and the tropical lands. It divides all of Africa, mostly in the northern half:
Sahel
About how long ago did the earliest, modern people arrive to Africa?
7,000 BC
Name one of the earliest centers of learning in the world, established in Africa:
Timbuktu
What do historians believe was the way Native people first arrived to North and South America?
Along the now-submerged Bering Strait, from Asia (Russia) into the North American continent
What were "chinampas"?
Floating gardens of mats sewn together to expand gardening areas.
What was the traditional method Africans used to pass tribal knowledge and culture to the next generation?
Oral - stories passed down through the generations
What was the first type of religion practiced by the migrating Bantu peoples?
Animism
Africans were the first people to do this:
Seafaring, or travel/trade by sea
Who were likely the first Native peoples to settle in Mesoamerica, or Middle America (between North and South America):
Olmec people
What did the Aztec believe determined a dead person's existence in the afterlife?
Their cause of death
Who was the wealthiest person from Mali and perhaps the richest that man that ever lived?
Mansa Musa
Which were the early Africans led by, patrilineal (men) or matrilineal (women), or both?
It was not the same throughout Africa....a mix
What cultural talent was Africa the first in the world to develop?
Art
Teotihuacan was one of the first civilization in the Americas. Which people built the city?
Mayans
What did the Inca people use to keep track of days and months?
Quipu, which were record-keeping devices fashioned from knotted cords.
What was the most valuable export from Africa, before slavery?
Salt
Identify 2 of the earliest resources traded in large numbers in Africa:
Salt and gold
What medical advances were first done in Africa?
Caesarean section and autopsies
Of the several "Societies of the Andes" tribes, which group became the most powerful and practiced human sacrifice on a large scale?
Aztecs
List at least two reasons for the Spanish victory over the Aztecs:
• Toltec legend of Quetzalcóatl
• Spanish arrival during the harvest season
• Aztec misinterpretations proved more serious
• Cortés better leader than Montezuma
• Smallpox nearly eliminated the Aztec elites
• Spanish military technology clearly superior
• Aztec policy of enslaving, persecuting, and sacrificing rather than assimilatin
Name any 1 of the 3 early West African kingdoms, which were some of the wealthiest:
Mali, Ghana, Songhai
Which African people are believed to be descendants of King Solomon of ancient Israel?
Ethiopians
Historically, about what percentage of the world's gold has come from Africa?
50 %
An ancient prophecy told the people to build a city where they saw a "golden eagle perched on a prickly pear cactus, devouring a serpent" and is on the national flag today. What is the name of the city?
Mexico City
Provide the most important reason why many Native tribes could not withstand the Spanish - and later other Europeans' advances - into their world?
Smallpox