34a, b: Ethnic and Religious Groups of Africa

What are the two most practiced religions in Africa?

• Judaism and Islam

• Christianity and Islam

• Animism and Christianity

• Islam and traditional religion

What ethnic group lives in north Africa and mostly practices Islam?

• Arabs

• Swahili

• Bantu

• Persians

What ethnic group lives on the east coast of Africa, believes in Mila, and mostly practices Islam?

• Arabs

• Swahili

• Bantu

• Persians

What ethnic group lives in central or southern Africa, have a tradition of drum playing, and has many members that practice Christianity or Islam?

• Arabs

• Swahili

• Bantu

• Kurds

Why do many people in Africa speak Arabic and practice the religion of Islam?

• They Kurds were given their own country in Africa after Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria refused to recognize them as an ethnic group.

• The Arabs expanded their empire from the Arabian Peninsula into Africa as they traded over land and on the sea.

• The Bantu brought their iron-working skills from West Africa to the rest of the continent.

• The majority of Persians believe that the leader of the religion must be a blood relative of Muhammad.

What is the belief that natural physical entities,

including animals, plants, and features of the earth, have a spirit or soul?

• Shintoism

• Animism

• Confucianism

• Islam

The main religion of the Arabs and Swahili is?

• Traditional African Religion

• Christianty

• Islam

• Judaism

What ethnic group is circled in red?

• Bantu

• Swahili

• Ashanti

• Arabs

What ethnic group is circled in green?

• Bantu

• Ashanti

• Swahili

• Arabs

What ethnic group is circled in yellow?

• Bantu

• Ashanti

• Swahili

• Arabs