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100
The indigenous people of Jamaica.
Who are the Arawak Indians?
100
The first colonizers of Jamaica
Who are the Spanish?
100
This figure represents pride and strength.
What is the lion?
100
Name two influences that led to the origins of reggae.
Rasta gatherings, missionary musical influences, Jamaican musical influences.
100
Haile Selassie I aka Ras Tafari was crowned here, making this place an important symbol to African-Jamaicans.
Ethiopia
200
The man who lead the revivalism rebellion?
Who is Paul Bogle?
200
The British used ______ as a way to gain control over the westward passage?
Who are privateers?
200
An even where members chant down Babylon, protest and cry out against injustice of system.
What are grounations and Nyabinghi drumming ceremonies?
200
Lyrics of this type of music often reflect social inequality, religious figures such as 'Jah' and the longing for the return home (zion).
What is Reggae?
200
In which continent is Ethiopia located?
Africa
300
_____ spread news from other plantations and lead the slave revolt in 1831?
Who is Sam Sharpe or Black-Christian Preachers?
300
This country invaded Ethiopia two times.
Who is Italy?
300
This diet allows for only plants to be consumed with some few exceptions.
What is the ital diet?
300
This type of music can be recognized with it's horn section which produces a "jumping" sound.
What is ska?
300
The British used this man as a privateer to plunder Spanish ships.
Who is Captain Henry Morgan?
400
Marcus Garvey
Who led the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)?
400
He became a symbolic icon after he was crowned king in 1930.
Who is Ras Tafari or Haile Selassie I.
400
Jamaican pipe used to smoke ganja
What is a herb chalice?
400
This song is an example of a work song.
What is Day-O by Harry Belefonte.
400
______ made a famous speech where he prophesize “look to Africa a Black king will be Crowned” and that Abyssinia would rise to world greatness.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
500
___________founded the commune the pinnacle in 1940?
Leonard Howell
500
The U.S. bought up these kinds of plantations and turned them into banana plantations?
Sugar Plantations.
500
to speak out about beliefs in justice and liberation as related to the black experience of slavery, colonialism, racism; and to act as an initiation of a newcomer, questioning him to see what’s in his heart
What is the purpose of the reasoning ceremony?
500
_______was also more popular in the rural areas where village bands adopted instrumentation and harmonic structures. Rural populations added African instruments such as banjoes, rumba boxes, drums, rattles, scrapers to guitars flutes and fiddles of euro origin.
Mento
500
This group started off as a ska group, then became the first group of reggae musicians to be composed entirely of Rastas.
Who are Bob Marley and the Wailers?