African History, Cultures, Borders, and Music

Borders along bodies of water provided _____________ ____________ which made it easier to move people and goods from place to place.

• transportation corridors

• physical maps

• political maps

• global positioning

Groups of people who share a common culture, language, and sometimes racial heritage are known as what?

• community dwellers

• ethnic groups

• deforestation

• desertification

How were colonial borders different sub-Saharan Africa's traditional borders?

• Colonial borders are the natural features, such as, rivers, lakes, oceans, or mountain ranges while traditional borders are based on the needs for resources of the Europeans.

• Colonial borders were created by Europeans to address the needs for resources while the traditional borders were based on conflict, and agreements between African cultural groups, and natural features.

• There were no differences between colonial borders and traditional borders because they were designed by African ethnic groups

• The colonial borders and the traditional borders were both developed by the Europeans to protect their business interests.

To address the challenges that were brought on by civil wars over political control, territory, and resources, how did African countries respond?

• Gave total control to the Europeans in order to stop conflicts between African cultural groups

• The Europeans and African cultural groups agreed to redraw the borders to make them fair for everyone.

• African countries developed organizations to promote cooperation and economic progress within and between countries.

• The Africans continued to fight with themselves and allowed the borders to disappear altogether.

Experts have linked African music to the development of what?

• The building of sculptures in African nations.

• The development of educational programs for elementary schools in the nations.

• Economic growth in Nigeria's economy and with neighboring nations.

• Jazz, blues, rock-and-roll, and gospel in the United States

The incentive (motivating reason) for the slave trade was what?

• profit

• to bring more people to the Americas

• To free the Africans from their lesser cultures

• create new markets in Europe

The griots were people who

• wrote songs about their culture and history

• followed the oral tradition and recited the history to pass on their culture to new generations

• taught and trained people about song writing and performance that would tell cultural stories to the world

• made maps that shown the boundaries of the tribal groups so to avoid wars, slavery, and poverty

Land that is set aside in Kenya that large mammals, such as the African elephants, lions, and giraffes to roam in a natural habitat known as a ___________.

• zoo

• savanna

• basin

• reserve

An ethnobotanist studies what?

• Culture through digging up artifacts of ancient civilizations

• People who lived in past civilizations, as well as, their contributions that survived from generation to generation.

• The relationships between plants and cultures.

• Traditional African empires and how they came to power, and how they declined.

In South Africa, music sometimes focuses on politics, therefore creating protest music. What was the purpose of why music would focus on this?

• To tell oral traditions of tribal groups.

• To examine the influence of ancient African empires.

• To compare and connect the South African culture to other cultures in the African continent.

• To protest government policies which led to gaining global awareness for their music