AFST week 12 discussion

There are two broad linguistic categories that make up Southern Africa's indigenous languages. What are they?

• 1. Bantu and Khoisan 

• 1. Bantu and Nguni 

• 1. Khoisan and Zulu

• 1. Zulu and Nguni 

1. Bantu languages were associated with what type of communities?

1. Khoisan languages were associated with what type of communities? 

1. When was the start of what historians call the Early Iron Age?

• 1. 1000 CE

• 1. 500 CE

• 1. 100 CE

• 1. 200 CE

1. Toutswemogala Hill represented the center of a network of iron working communities.

• True

• False

1. Mapungubwe served as a trade center, exporting what goods to the Indian Ocean?

• 1. Gold and silver

• 1. Iron and ivory 

• 1. Gold and iron

• 1. Gold and ivory 

1. There is an academic debate about who built Great Zimbabwe.

• True

• False

1.  Early Iron Age farmers and herders tried to avoid what because of poor soil?

• 1. Limpopo Riverside 

• 1. Highveld, a high-altitude plateau and grassland 

• 1. Drakensberg Mountains 

• 1. Indian Ocean Coast 

1. When did the Nguni- speakers form the Xhosa kingdom?

• 1. 1500s

• 1. 1600s

• 1. 1700s 

• 1. 1800s

1. In the Western Cape, Khosian communities were included within the region because of the similar climates.

• True

• False