SSWH1d Bantu Migration

The Bantu migration originally started where?

• Congo Basin

• Ghana Empire

• Mali

• Egypt

Besides warfare, why might having the knowledge of iron be beneficial to the Bantu in a forest environment? 

• Iron tools for cutting through the jungle
• Iron can be melted into statues
• Iron looked cool so they went with it
• Iron is as strong as wood

The word "migration" refers to what?

• The movement of only people.

• The movement of people and animals looking for resources.

• The movement of animals only.

• None of these answers are correct.

Why did the Bantu people move or migrate across Africa?

• Historians and anthropologist are not exactly sure.

• They wanted to escape the destruction of the erupting volcano, Mt. Cameroon.

• The Central African landscape became desert and lost resources.

What was the agricultural revolution?

• The trading of goods and ideas between the America's, Europe, and Africa.

• Humans begin to grow crops and gather plants rather than hunting for food.

• The spread of culture across the African continent.

What is one of the best known surviving Bantu languages?

• Spanish

• Swahili

• British English

• Somali

The term "Lingua Franca" refers to:

• The vast differences in languages spoken throughout Africa

• This is the name of the language spoken by the Bantu people.

• Lingua Franca was a major trading port in West Africa.

• The common language between multiple groups of people.

Where did the Bantu Migrations migrate to?

• The Bantu people migrated north and east to the Nile River and the Arabian Peninsula.

• The Bantu people spread south and east from their Central African homelands.

• The Bantu people moved west along the coast of Western Africa.

• The Bantu people moved north into the Sahara to cash in on the salt trade.

Famine, disease and war are considered what?

• Push Factors
• Pull Factors

Push factors are....

• good things that draw a person to another country
• reasons that drive a person out of their country
• reasons people migrate to a new area