West African Cultural Legacies

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Which of these is a West African Country?

• USA

• Brazil

• Mali

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What parts of your hand do you use to play drums?

• wrist

• fingers

• palms

• elbows

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The form in music where one group plays a rhythm and another group plays a different rhythm back is called

• echo drumming

• Repetitive Drumming

• Call and Response

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The longest river in the world is

• Mississippi River

• Zambezi River

• Nile River

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At what point is the Niger River located?

• D
• E
• F
• G

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Which of the following factors increased trans-Saharan trade?

• The introduction of camels and copper
• The population increase and gold
• The growth of cities and camels
• The discovery of salt and introduction of camels

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What were the 3 largest West African Empires?

• Songhai, Mali, and Nigeria
• Mali, Songhai, and Ghana
• Ghana, Songhai, and Bachwezi
• Aksum, Ghana, Mali

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The first West African ruler to practice Islam devoutly.

• Mansa Musa

• Griot

• Folk Tale

• Muhammad

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What is a griot?

• pilgrimage to Mecca
• group of traders that travel together
• storytellers who pass down oral history
• exchanging of goods without direct contact

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

• Griot

• Profit

• Oral Tradition

• Smelting

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A story that is passed down orally and becomes part of a culture’s tradition.

• Mansa Musa

• Oral Tradition

• Folk Tale

• Caravan

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What is a griot?

• pilgrimage to Mecca
• group of traders that travel together
• storytellers who pass down oral history
• exchanging of goods without direct contact

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A talented poet-musician of the Mande people, who tells stories, sings songs, and recites poems to share history

• Commodity

• Oral Tradition

• Genealogies

• Griot

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The most important West African city, for trade and education, was

• Timbuktu
• Cairo
• Gao
• Rome

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Griots were the ___________ of West Africa?

• leaders
• soldiers 
• story tellers
• children

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Sculptures were used to

• Look really cool

• call upon the spirits to help them in every phase of life

• nice decorations, it really brightens up the place

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Wooden masks have been apart of the African Culture for centuries

• true

• false

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were used during ceremonies, in performances, and in sacred rites

• wooden masks

• sculptures

• acting

• backflips

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In Africa people often lived in ____________, or families made up of several generations.

• Extra Member families

• Large Factories

• Extended Families

• Relative Networks

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What type of art is Kente cloth?

• Sculpture

• Textile

• Painting

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What are the traditional Kente cloth colors?

• purple, blue, and green

• brown, red, and blue

• red, yellow, and green

• orange, purple, and pink

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What was the original use of the Kente cloth?

• It was used for special social and sacred functions

• It was used to clean the house

• It was used as decorations

• It was used as a mat to wipe your feet before entering a home

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is made up by sewing narrow strips of silk together to tell a symbolic story

• kente cloth

• the sewing machine

• silk

• fabric

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Matrilineal is based on

• a child's family line

• a man's family line

• a woman's family line

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Patrilineal means

• heritage or ancestry through your father's side

• heritage or ancestry through your mother's side

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This was a way of peaceful trading so that the locations of the salt and gold mines would not be discovered.

• silent economy
• silent majority
• silent night
• silent bartering

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West Africa became an important commerce center. Which answer below is not an example of West Africa being a major commerce center.

• Leaders taxed trade routes.
• They exported important goods like salt, gold and slaves.
• They built trade cities like Timbuktu.
• Islam became the dominant religion.

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Trade routes to Asia, Mansa Musa's pilgrimage, and architectures building mosques are reasons for the arrival of what religion to West Africa.

• Christianity
• Catholicism
• Protestantism
• Islam

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West Africa built universities to educate the people so they could read the Quran. What language did they have to learn? 

• Hebrew
• Greek
• Arabic
• Latin

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What West African trade good was used to preserve meat prior to refrigeration?

• Ivory
• Salt
• Gold
• Ice

Poll

Which has been your favorite unit so far?

• Rome's Legacies & Byzantine Empire

• Medieval Europe

• Medieval West African Kingdoms

• I'll wait for WH7 in 2022🙌🏻