Diverse Societies in Africa

Most people in Africa live in the _______

• Rainforest

• Sahel

• Savanna

• Sahara

Before agriculture and a settled lifestyle early Africans organized themselves in a _____

• Pastoral Society

• Bureaucracy

• Hunter Gather Society

• Both A and C

A society with no centralized system of power

• stateless society

• anarchy

• feudal society

• a lineal society

A patrilineal society traces their ancestor through whom?

• Their children

• Their father's side

• Their mother's side

• Both B and C

Because few African societies had written language, history was told orally by storytellers or ____

• All the ancestors

• the Nok

• animism

• griots

The Nok people lived in what is now the modern day country of _

• Egypt

• South Africa

• Ethiopia

• Nigeria

Why do archaeologist think that early people from the north moved to West Africa?

• desertification

• Both A and D

• political uprisings

• floods

The largest hot desert in the World is the _____

• The Arabian desert

• The Gobi desert

• The Sahara desert

• The Kalahari desert

Which one of these countries is NOT in Southern Africa?

• Lesotho

• Namibia

• Sudan

• Botswana