3.3 African Society & Culture

In the AD 600s, who led the fight against the Muslim invasion of her kingdom, which was located near modern-day Mauritania?

• Dahia al-Kahina

• Nzinga

• Inari Kunate

• Madison G

Which queen ruled the lands in what are now Angola and Congo? She spent almost 40 years fighting the Portuguese slave traders.

• Dahia al-Kahina

• Nzinga

• Inari Kunate

• Juliana

matrilineal

• a culture that traces ancestry through mothers

• a culture that traces ancestry through fathers

• a culture that traces ancestry through aunts

• a culture that traces ancestry through uncles

In West African villages, who passed down traditions through oral history?

• grandparents

• aunts and uncles

• parents

• griots or storytellers

European explorers were NOT surprised to learn that women served as soldiers in some African kingdoms.

• True

• False

In what year did the Portuguese first capture African men, women, and children to be slaves?

• AD 1343

• AD 1441

• AD 1492

• AD 1066

Through the use of slave labor, which European nation was the world's leadings supplier of sugar by AD 1500?

• Spain

• England

• Portugal

• Italy

The European slave trade is now called the . . ., the spreading of African people and culture around the world.

• African Diaspora

• African Diorama

• African Exodus

• African Dispersal

What is the earliest form of African art that we know about?

• clay sculptures

• wood carvings

• cave paintings

• woven tapestries

African woodcarvers made masks and statues to celebrate . . .

• the new year

• African religious beliefs

• the birth of a baby

• trade with other villages