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Name this historic structure and identify the culture that created
The Giza Pyramid Complex (also called the Giza necropolis) in Egypt is home to the Great Pyramid, the Pyramid of Khafre, and the Pyramid of Menkaure, along with their associated pyramid complexes and the Great Sphinx.
All were built during the Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom of ancient Egypt, between c. 2600 – c. 2500 BC. The site also includes several temples, cemeteries, and the remains of a workers' village.
This ELEMENT OF SOCIAL STUDIES deals primarily with MONEY:
A. Geography
B. History
C. Social Science
D. Economics
Economics
In social studies, "economics" refers to the study of how societies allocate limited resources, focusing on the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services,
__________ is a person's unique way of life, determined by how their peoples have adapted to their environment over time. This includes aspects like food, clothing, government systems, trade, and religion.
Culture
Culture is a broad concept that encompasses the beliefs, behaviors, and ways of life of a group of people. It can include:
Values and beliefs, Language, Customs and rituals, Arts, Material objects, Practices
Modern Humans (people like us) first appeared in the ______ _______ Valley, a series of contiguous geographic depressions, approximately 4,300 mi in total length.
The Great Rift Valley
Many extremely well-preserved human and animal fossils have been found in the Ethiopian Great Rift Valley, proves that this area may have represented a crucial site for human evolution in the last million years.
Which of these rivers is the longest on the continent of Africa:
A. Nile
B. Congo
C. Schuylkill
The Nile
The Nile is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa. It flows into the Mediterranean Sea. The Nile is the longest river in Africa.
This ELEMENT OF SOCIAL STUDIES deals primarily with the PAST:
A. Geography
B. History
C. Social Science
D. Economics
History
History is the story of whatever humans have done, with emphasis upon institutional and group activities. A sense history is the most inclusive and pervasive of the social studies and partakes of the nature of each of the others when it records activities which fall within their scope
The presence of THIS MAJOR AFRICAN RELIGION in Africa can be traced to the 7th century CE, when in Rajab 8 BH, or May 614 CE, The Prophet advised a number of his early disciples, who were facing persecution by the polytheistic inhabitants of the Mecca, to seek refuge across the Red Sea in Axum.
Islam
Africa was the first continent into which Islam spread from the Middle East, during the early 7th century CE. Almost one-third of the world's Muslim population resides in Africa. Muslims crossed current Djibouti and Somaliland to seek refuge in present-day Eritrea and Ethiopia during the Hijrah ("Migration") to the Christian Kingdom of Aksum.
Name this historic settlement in Southern Africa
Great Zimbabwe
This kingdom a was settled by the 4th century AD. Between the 4th and the 7th centuries, communities of the Gokomere or Ziwa cultures farmed the valley, and mined and worked irons while expanding their network of trade
Maroons were people who inhabited the swamplands of the _____ ______ Swamp in Virginia and North Carolina after escaping enslavement. Although conditions were harsh, research suggests that thousands lived there between about 1700 and the 1860s.
Great Dismal Swamp
Inhabitants included people who had purchased their freedom as well as those who had escaped, eventually used as a route on the Underground Railroad.
Nearby whites often left maroons alone so long as they paid in logs or shingles, and businesses ignored the fugitive status of people who provided work in exchange for trade goods.
This Massive Desert covers most of Northern Africa was actually pretty green back in the day (8 Million Years Ago):
The Sahara Desert
With an area of 3,600,000 square mile, it is the largest hot desert in the world and the third-largest desert overall, smaller only than the deserts of Antarctica and the northern Arctic.
This ELEMENT OF SOCIAL STUDIES deals primarily with THE WAY PEOPLE THINK:
A. Geography
B. History
C. Social Science
D. Economics
Social science
Social science is the study of human society and behavior, while social studies is the study of social sciences and humanities that helps students develop civic thought
____________________ is the term for the slave trade that took place across the Atlantic Ocean.
Transatlantic Slave Trade
segment of the global slave trade that transported between 10 million and 12 million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas from the 16th to the 19th century.
________ ______'s Proclamation was a document issued by the Royal Governor of Virginia on November 7, 1775. It promised freedom to any enslaved person(s) who escaped and fought for the British Crown during the American Revolutionary War.
Lord Dunmore's Proclamation
Within a month 300 black men had signed up with Dunmore’s "Royal Ethiopian Regiment." While the regiment grew to only 800 men, his proclamation inspired thousands of enslaved people to seek freedom behind British lines throughout the Revolutionary War.
Which of these ancient civilizations was formed in Africa?
A. Egypt
B. Maya
C. Cahokia
Egypt
Ancient Egypt was a powerful civilization in northeastern Africa that lasted for almost 3,000 years.
This ELEMENT OF SOCIAL STUDIES deals primarily with THE ENVIRONMENT:
A. Geography
B. History
C. Social Science
D. Economics
Geography
____ _______ was based on one of Alex Haley's ancestors, a Mandinka Warrior who was born in the city of Jufureh in current-day Gambia around 1750, enslaved, and taken to America where he died around 1822.
Kunta Kinte
He was raised in a Muslim family. In 1767, while Kunta was searching for wood to make a drum for himself, four men chased him, surrounded him, and took him captive. Kunta awoke to find himself blindfolded, gagged, bound, and a prisoner. He and others were put on the slave ship the Lord Ligonier for a four-month Middle Passage voyage to North America.
Musa went on THIS RELIGIOUS PILGRIMAGE to Mecca in 1324, traveling with an enormous entourage and a vast supply of gold. En route, he spent time in Cairo, where his lavish gift-giving is said to have noticeably affected the value of gold in Egypt and garnered the attention of the wider Muslim world.
Hajj is a pilgrimage made to the Kaaba, the "House of Allah," in the sacred city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. It is one of the Five Pillars of Islam.
Which of these EMPIRES was made rich by their access to natural resources include hardwoods, salt, and gold:
A. Bantu
B. Mali
C. Han
The Mali Empire was the largest empire in West Africa, widely influencing the culture of the region through the spread of its language, laws, and customs.
Question: Which of these African countries is an island?
A. Egypt
B. Mali
C. Madagascar
D. Swedesboro, New Jersey
Madagascar
It is the world's fourth largest island, the second-largest island country, which separated from Africa between 155–170 million years ago, as part of the breakup of the ancient supercontinent Gondwana.
One of the richest people in history, This Emperor is known to have been enormously wealthy, described as being inconceivably rich by contemporaries; Time magazine reported: "There's really no way to put an accurate number on his wealth."
Mansa Musa
(reigned c. 1312 – c. 1337) was the ninth Mansa of the Mali Empire, which reached its territorial peak during his reign. Musa's reign is often regarded as the zenith of Mali's power and prestige, however he features comparatively less in Mandinka oral traditions than his predecessors.