English 8 2nd Qtr

2^nd largest and 2^nd most populous continent in the world.

Home to the tallest, fastest and largest land animal on Earth.

He published the book “DESCENT OF MAN” in 1871, where humans closest relatives,

chimpanzees and gorillas are found.

He found what may have been a preserved fossil of a human brain.

He found fossils of adult ape-men in South Africa which backed up Dart’s discovery.

The youngest median population in Africa is ____ years old.

• 20

• 30

• 40

• 50

Africa is a home of over _____ ethnic groups and over ____ languages.

• 100, 500

• 3000, 1000

• 3000, 2000

• 300, 200

Slavery started with Trans-Sahara slave trade, Swahili coast trade and Barbary coast.

• True

• False

Oral tradition in Africa was through messages passed down through speech or song and may take the form of folktales and fables, epic histories and narrations, proverbs or sayings, and songs.

• True

• False

The first AFRICAN writings gain attention in the WEST were _____________ which described vividly the horrors or slavery and the slave trade.