An Overview of West African Culture

An Overview of West African Culture

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is not one of the four main rivers of Africa?

• Nile

• Danube

• Niger

• Congo

Multiple Choice

Which of the following achievements can be attributed to the Egyptians?

• First known paper

• 365 day calendar

• Some of the world's first medical books

• All of the Above

Multiple Choice

What important West African city is shown here?

• Bamako

• Timbuktu

• Conkary

• Accra

Multiple Choice

What led to the rise of the great West African Empires?

• The control of trans-Saharan trade--especially the salt/gold trade

• The power vacuum left by the end of the Roman Empire which they took advantage of in West Africa

• Alliances with England and France against Portugal and Spain

• All of the above

Multiple Choice

Which was NOT one of the 3 most important empires in West African history?

• Ghana

• Timbuktu

• Mali

• Songhai

Multiple Choice

West African culture centered around...

• the church and manufacturing

• the town square and warfare

• livestock and slavery

• the village and agriculture

Multiple Choice

What was the main religion of most West Africans at the time of European discovery?

• Animism

• Islam

• Christianity

• Atheism

Poll

What is the most important question that people have to answer in life?

• Who created the world?

• What is the place of humankind in this creation?

• What happens to us after death?

• Why do people suffer?

• Does life have a purpose, if so what is it?

Multiple Choice

What was the most important art form in West African culture?

• Dance and Music

• Statues

• Masks

• Body paint

Poll

When you think of West African music, what instrument comes to mind?

• Lute (old guitar)

• Tambin (wooden flute)

• Djembe (drums)

• Balafo (wooden xylophone)

Open Ended

What were some differences between slavery in West Africa and other places historically and the slavery of the new world in the last 400-500 years?

Multiple Choice

What triggered the huge rise of the slave market in West Africa?

• Europeans discovering West Africa

• A need for cheap labor in Europe

• A need for cheap labor in the new American colonies

• West Africans desire to emigrant to the new world

Multiple Choice

Who is responsible for the slave trade?

• European traders and their governments who allowed them to trade in human lives.

• European colonies and their governments who allowed them to trade in human lives

• African coastal tribes and empires who grew rich off of the sale of slaves

• All of the Above

Multiple Choice

Which areas of the "new world" have the heaviest concentrations of African descendants?

• Brazil and the Caribbean

• Argentina and Chile

• The US and Mexico

• They are all about equal

Open Ended

What modern examples of West African culture can we seen in modern American culture?