Chapter 4: Ghana (Vocabulary)

Choose the correct definition of colonize.

• to claim land for a nation by drawing a map

• to claim land for a nation by making a new culture

• to claim land for a nation by establishing a settlement

• to claim land for a nation by exploring it

indigenous: native; (a)   to a place

• new

• moving

• foreign

• original

ancestor: a relative who lived (a)   you

• after

• with

• before
• next to

Read the definition. Then choose the vocabulary term defined.

West African storyteller or poet who recalls historical events and transmits history and culture from one generation to the next

• shaman

• chief

• ancestor

• griot

Read the definition. Then choose the vocabulary term defined.

the belief that animals, plants, and even inanimate objects have spirits

• animism

• Confucianism

• feudalism

• Buddhism

Choose the correct definition of oral.

• of or relating to the eyes; read

• of or relating to the nose; smelled

• of or relating to the brain; understood

• of or relating to the mouth; spoken

Choose the correct definition of caravan.

• a group of people who spread Islam through conquest

• a book written about medicine

• a group of people traveling together

• a book written with decorative handwriting

Read the definition. Then choose the vocabulary term defined.

a measure of a location’s distance east or west of the prime meridian

• latitude

• longitude

• absolute location

• relative location

Choose the correct definition of oral history.

• past events shared by spoken stories and songs

• the expression of human creativity and imagination

• the traditions, skills, arts, beliefs, and other ways of life of a certain people at a certain time

• a fictional story that includes a moral lesson, often using people or animals with unusual abilities as characters

kente cloth: a traditional, colorfully patterned, hand-woven cloth from ________

• West Africa

• Central America

• the Middle East

• Western Europe