History of Griots

History of Griots

7.25 Explain the importance of griots in the transmission of West African history and culture.

Open Ended

Explain the importance of Griots in the transmission of West African history and culture in 50 to 75 words.

Multiple Choice

How did the griots help to teach the children of the village?

• Instructing them on ways to fight off the enemy

• Teaching them ways to fish and hunt for food

• They didn't, they strongly disliked the children because they talk too much

• Through messages on how to behave in their stories

Multiple Choice

West African storytellers who pass on oral histories of their tribes or people.

• Fellahin

• Pharaohs

• Griots

• Swahili

Multiple Choice

These people told the history and folktales of Africa before they began writing it down. 

• Griots
• Prophets
• Diviners
• Savages

Multiple Choice

What developed from African music?

• Country, lullabies, sing-a-long
• Blues, jazz, spirituals, rock and roll
• Classical, baroque, avant-garde
• commercials, jingles, TV themes

Multiple Choice

What is the main belief of followers of animism?

• There is only one god

• Spirits play an important role in daily life

• People are organized into family groups

• Storeytellers are sacred beings who keep history alive

Multiple Choice

These people told the history and folktales of Africa before they began writing it down. 

• Griots
• Prophets
• Diviners
• Savages

Multiple Choice

What was one Ghana profited from the trade industry?

• They charged traders taxes to pass through. 
• They charged sales tax on the goods being traded. 
• They controlled the trade and made all the profits. 
• They did not permit trade.

Multiple Choice

Which two natural resources led to the rise of all the western African kingdoms?

• Salt and Gold
• Salt and Diamonds
• Silver and Gold
• Platinum and DIamonds

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Men & Women can be griots

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Griots no longer exist today

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Kora

• The kora is a stringed instrument similar to a harp

• No veo televisión, leo libros.

• Miss I don't know this

• It's you know, that one thing, that does the thing

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The griot kept records of all births, deaths, and marriages and cultural traditions

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

griots could tell ________ of families going back for generations

• ancestry

• beans

• dreams

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Griots were musicians

• True

• False

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What kingdom did the Griots originate from

• Tahiti

• Indonesia

• Mali

• Hilo

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How long can Griots speak for

• they don't speak

• more than me

• a couple of minutes

• hours or days at a time

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What was the role of the Griots

• Ayy, Panini, don't you be a meanie

  Thought you wanted me to go up

• memorized stories, sayings, and the history of their city or town

• Then you're left in the dust

  Unless I stuck by ya

  You're a sunflower

• Once upon time there was this beautiful prince named Kyle and Kyle loved to play minecraft.

Multiple Choice

How far back does the Griot legacy go

• 2020

• 15th Century

• Last year

• NEVER

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Who told the stories of oral traditions

• Griots

• Miss

• Cristo

• Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

Multiple Choice

What could be made from using iron?

• livestock
• tools and weapons

Multiple Choice

Western African kingdoms like Ghana and Mali controlled trade of which TWO items?

• Gold and fish
• Gold and salt

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Oral history was passed along by a ____________________ in African societies.

• griot
• dynasty

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traditional African storytellers

• griots
• savanna
• dhow
• convert

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A talented poet-musician of the Mande people, who tell stories, sign songs, and recite poems to share history.

• grandparents
• elder
• griot
• king

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Learning and cultural ideas passed down orally, from one generation to the next.

• oral tradition
• story telling
• genealogy
• history