Swahili and Great Zimbabwe

Africa is a...

• Nation

• Continent

• Third-world country

• Country

Africa is very diverse.

"Diverse" means that there are a lot of differences; it's NOT all the same.

If you learn about one town in Africa, will most towns be very similar to that one?

• Yes, because it's all pretty much the same in Africa.

• No, because Africa is very diverse.

Two reasons historians USED TO think that Africa had very little history of interest include:

(SELECT the TWO correct answers.)

• Africa has a rich tradition of ORAL HISTORY (teaching the next generation by telling stories out loud, rather than in writing).

  So, historians incorrectly THOUGHT there was no written records to study.

• Few ruins of buildings have been found, so they incorrectly THOUGHT that Africans did not build with strong materials like stone.

• There isn't much history in Africa. Nothing really happened until European nations colonized there.

It has been said that now would be an exciting time to be an archaeologist studying Africa.

Which of the statements below best stupports this idea?

• Modern discoveries have only begun to shed light on a rich cultural history of Africa, especially sub-Saharan Africa.

  Tomorrow's archaeologists are likely to

  discover exciting new civilizations.

• Egypt is the only ancient civilization of Africa.

  To study Africa, one must focus on

  uncovering more history of Egypt.

What did the Bantu-speaking people spread across Africa as they migrated?

• Christianity.
• bronze making skills.
• Islam.  
• their language and culture.

Europe was late in learning

about sub-Saharan Africa, for several reasons.

Among the reasons are (select TWO)

• Crossing the Sahara desert would have been too hard. (The Sahara is 4 times the size of the Mediterranean Sea)

• A disease called malaria discouraged exploration.

• Marco Polo had returned, saying that there wasn't anything of interest there.

• The monarchs of Europe agreed to leave Africa alone.

The continent of Africa has:

54 countries, More than 2,000 languages, and More than 3,000 ethnic groups.

There are arid deserts, but also savanas and rain forests.

There are areas of poverty, and areas of wealth.

These facts support the idea that Africa is very . . .

• diverse

• all pretty much the same

• arid

• verdant

How many different ethnic groups exist on the African continent?

• 500

• 30

• 3,000

• 4

Which of the following is method of passing on information

that was common

to early African civilizations?

• Written History

• Short Stories

• Photographs

• Oral Histories

The remains of a town farther south than the Swahili was discovered in modern times,

and studied by a lady archaeologist.

This town is where the Swahili got their gold.

This town's name means "Great Stone House", or

• Great Nile

• Great Sahara

• Great Mt. Kilimanjaro

• Great Zimbabwe

• Great Horn