12B

Question 0

Which people settled in Southern Africa?

Answer 0

Bantu

Question 1

What people in Northern Africa was known for its use of camels?

Answer 1

Tuaregs

Question 2

How do historians divide Africa’s early people?

Answer 2

By common language

Question 3

When did Christianity enter Northern Africa?

Answer 3

First century

Question 4

In the north of Africa; who lived in the Sahara?

Answer 4

Nomads

Question 5

Most of the Nomads belonged to a language group called?

Answer 5

Berbers

Question 6

What group www the greatest of the Nomadic people?

Answer 6

Tuareg

Question 7

Why were the Tuareg feared?

Answer 7

Because of their skills as warriors

Question 8

Why did the Tuareg earn the name “blue people”?

Answer 8

The men wrapped their heads with a piece of long dark blue cotton that acted as a veil and a turban. It hid his face except for a slit by the eyes. Sometimes the material would stain the mans skin blue

Question 9

Because the Tuaregs knew the best way for caravans to the desert they often acted as?

Answer 9

Guides

Question 10

What was one of the most valuable possessions of the Tuareg?

Answer 10

Camel

Question 11

Why was the camel a necessity?

Answer 11

Because of its ability to live and work in the desert

Question 12

Other than transport what else were camels used for?

Answer 12

Hides were used to make tents and their milk was used to make butter and cheese

Question 13

What group of people settled in Northern Africa?

Answer 13

Tuaregs

Question 14

To which area of Africa did missionaries first travel with the gospel?

Answer 14

Central Africa

Question 15

Which language group originally lived in the Savanna part of central Africa?

Answer 15

Nilotics

Question 16

What are the best known people of the Nilotics?

Answer 16

Maasai

Question 17

The grassy savanna of central Africa is now the modern county of?

Answer 17

South Sudan

Question 18

What was the appearance of the Maasai people?

Answer 18

tall and slender

Question 19

How did the Maasai measure their wealth and social standing?

Answer 19

By the number of cattle they owned

Question 20

What ceremonies did the young Maasai warriors have to go through to prove their manhood?

Answer 20

Paint their skins red and go live in the wilderness to learn about survival. Had to kill a lion only using a spear. Build a village and live in it together for a period of time.

Question 21

How many wives did Maasai men have and how did they get wives?

Answer 21

They could have more than one wife and they could buy a bride in exchange for cattle

Question 22

Where do theMaasai still live today?

Answer 22

Kenya

Question 23

What was the Maasai women’s responsibilities?

Answer 23

To care for the homes, husbands and children. To build family huts from tree branches and grass. Milk cows and fetch water.

Question 24

Who settled in most of the rest of Africa?

Answer 24

Bantu who migrated from the Benue River

Question 25

After wandering east and south where did the Bantu finally settle?

Answer 25

Congo basin

Question 26

Why did the Bantu end up moving all the way down to the southern most tip of Africa?

Answer 26

After 200 years of prospering and growing in number the land couldn’t support any more villages

Question 27

What other groups were living in the area south of the Sahara?

Answer 27

Pygmies, Bushmen and Khoikhoi

Question 28

What did the pygmies look like?

Answer 28

Very small in stature and lived deepen the rainforest of the Congo basin

Question 29

What happened to the Pygmies and bushmen when they lost their land to the Bantus.

Answer 29

Moved to the south and the west where they formed small family groups of hunters and gatherers

Question 30

How did the Bushmen and Khoikhoi communicate?

Answer 30

Unusual click language

Question 31

When did large groups of Europeans come to live in Africa?

Answer 31

1600s

Question 32

Which Europeans settled on the southern most tip of Africa and set up stations to provide water and food for ships on their way to India?

Answer 32

Dutch

Question 33

Who joined the Dutch people in Africa about 150 years later?

Answer 33

People from England

Question 34

Whose descendants are still living in Douth Africa today?

Answer 34

Dutch and the English

Question 35

Which modern nation lies on the east side of Africa.

Answer 35

Ethiopia

Question 36

Which empire was built in Ethiopia

Answer 36

Aksum which was a powerful and wealthy kingdom

Question 37

Who did the Aksun conquer in AD330?

Answer 37

The Kush