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Module 12 Lesson 1
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is "The Big Idea"? | African peoples developed diverse societies as they adapted to varied environments. |
| What is the "Sahara"? | North African desert that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean east to the Red Sea and from the Mediterranean Sea south to the Sahel |
| What is a "lineage"? | the people who are descended from a common ancestor |
| What was the "Djenné-Djeno"? | city of the Niger River delta that has been inhabited since about 250 BC |
| What's the difference between a "Patrilineal" and a "Matrilineal"? | A Patrilineal family's inheritance is traced from the father and a Matrilineal family's inheritance is traced from the mother. |
| How big is Africa? | 5,000 miles x 4,600 miles; 11.7 million miles^2. |
| What are the biggest deserts in Africa? | the Sahara (in the North) and the Kalahari (in the South). |
| What kept the people from using cattle, donkeys, and horses for farming? | Tsetse flies. |
| What type of people was the southern tip of Africa populated with? | Farmers and Herders. |
| What were the savannas (besides from grassy plains)? | mountainous highlands and swampy tropical areas |
| Where were the first humans? | The Great River Valley. |
| How did the band govern their laws? | Each family in the band made their own decisions and were free to come and go. |
| How did Nomadic hunting-gathering societies get their food to survive? | Women gathered, searching for food in the forest. Men hunted, sometimes in groups and sometimes hunting solo. |
| What did the Masai of Tanzania and southern Kenya mostly eat? | They mostly ate meat, blood and milk. |
| When did the Sahara turn into a savanna? | Between 8,000 BC and 6,000 BC (and soon people would move their and start learning how to grow their own food). |
| What common element did all of the cities in the South of the Sahara share? | the importance of a basic social unit (the family). |
| How did the groups South of the Sahara develop governments. | groups developed governments based on lineages, and each family had equal power, so one family wasn't in too much control. |
| How did a person know what age-set they were in? | Ceremonies marked the passage to each stage. |
| What was religion like in Africa? | Most religions were polytheistic, involving belief in one supreme god and other secondary gods or semi divine spirits. |
| In religions, who was involved in the Africans' everyday life? | the supreme god wasn’t involved in everyday life; instead the spirits were responsible. |
| What artifacts had been found from ancient Africa? | Pottery, Charcoal, and Slag |
| Who went through the Copper and Bronze ages; North or South? | North; the South skipped the Copper and Bronze ages and went right to the Iron age. |
| Where and when did people of the Nok culture live? | Between 500 BC and AD 200 in what is now Nigeria. |
| In the region South of the Sahel, when did cities begin developing? | Between 600 BC and 200 BC. They were usually near either a river or an oasis |
| How many people lived in the Djenné-Djeno, and when was it abandoned? | The Djenné-Djeno had 50,000 people, and it was abandoned some time after AD 1400. |
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