Chapter 1 and 2, Human Origins and Migration

Why is Africa important to all people?

• Because of DNA

• Because it is the birthplace of humanity

• Because there are many rivers and lakes

Where did the first human migration begin?

• Chicago

• Egypt

• Africa

• America

Define: Prehistory

• The time before history was recorded in writing.

• The time pre-school was teaching history.

• The prehistoric days of dinosaurs.

Name two discoveries that led scientists to determine that human life began on the continent of Africa.

• Ancient carvings, and boats

• Tools and buckets

• Fossils and artifacts

What are some of the ways the first Africans used their environment to survive?

• They made clothes out of grass

• They made tools from stone

• They made medicine from plants

• All the above

Match the following

• Ice Age

• 
• DNA

• 
• Stone Age

• 
• Nomads

• 
• Scarification

• 

Define an ethnic group

• The group of ethic people wearing beads

• a group of friends that look alike

• A population within a specific culture that shares common social institutions like language and customs

How did the concept of race develop?

• It developed as people started to mistreat one another.

• Race was something people did with their feet, until someone started hating Africans

• Race is actually a false way of looking at people and judging their quality

• The concept of race developed as Europeans came into contact with Africa

Match the following

• The Nile River

• 
• The Congo River

• 
• Rainforest

• 
• The Sahara Desert

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What are some of Africa's largest ethnic groups?

• {A}

  Hausa-Fulani

• {B}

  Yoruba

• {C}

  Ibo

• A and B only

• A, B, and C