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Question 1

How long and where he have have gatherers being around?

Answer 1

In southern Africa for about 11,000 years.

Question 2

What does San mean?

Answer 2

It comes from the Khoi-khoi word Saan which means people who gather food of people without any cattle.

Question 3

For what is the term San used?

Answer 3

It is used to describe the indigenous people of southern Africa who live or used to live by hunting and gathering.

Question 4

What do European settlers call these people?

Answer 4

They call them Bosjesman, Soaqua, Bushmen and other names.

Question 5

When did the Europeans arrive in the Cape?

Answer 5

They arrived at the Cape of good hope in 1652 they brought advanced weapons weapons at new diseases.

Question 6

What kind of diseases did the Europeans bring?

Answer 6

They brought diseases, such as small pox, caused thousands of San Khoi people to die during the 18th and 19th centuries.

Question 7

What does domesticate mean?

Answer 7

To tame plants or animals for human use.

Question 8

What is livestock?

Answer 8

Domesticated animals, such as cattle, sheep, and pigs that provide resources. Resources such as skin and meat.

Question 9

What is a nomad?

Answer 9

A person without a permanent home who moves around to survive?

Question 10

What is a pastoral society?

Answer 10

A group of people who’s way of life depends on herding.

Question 11

What does cultivate mean?

Answer 11

To prepare and use soil for the growing of crops.

Question 12

What is the tsetse fly?

Answer 12

It is a blood sucking insect that causes sleeping sickness. People and cattle die from it.

Question 13

What is the difference between pastoralism and agriculture?

Answer 13

Pastoralism means nomadic which means that people move around and settle often. Agriculture is a more permanent lifestyle where people can plant large amount of crops and live there for the rest of their lives.

Question 14

What was the kind of crops that the agricultural people planted?

Answer 14

Props like wheat, barley, and millit.

Question 15

What does agriculture create?

Answer 15

Agriculture generally creates a surplus of food for communities, which can be stored and eaten later.

Question 16

How did farming affect people’s lives?

Answer 16

Foaming caused changes in the way of people left. Because they grew their own food, they stayed in one place so that they could harvest the crops when it was ready. They both houses, how many states and villages. Some of these grew into towns and cities.

Question 17

How did the growth of chiefdoms, kingdoms and empires affect people’s lives?

Answer 17

They had plans to work together as a community.

Question 18

How did the growth of the population affect the people?

Answer 18

The population began to grow partly because more food was available. Also, it was easier for families to have a raise children in settled communities.

Question 19

How did iron tools change peoples lives?

Answer 19

People found that iron made far better source for farming then stone.

Question 20

What did people use pottery for?

Answer 20

They made pottery from baked clay. These could be used for storing, carrying or cooking food and also for water.

Question 21

Why did people trade?

Answer 21

Farmers who planted crops could sell extra crops and buy what they couldn’t grow for themselves. This led to the growth of trade.

Question 22

What was the stone age?

Answer 22

It was the time with people lived in caves and jungles. They protected themselves from wild animals and gathered food. People made use of rock shelters. The needles were made out of bone to sew animal skins for clothing.

Question 23

Name in example of the type of evidence says people used in that time and what archaeologists may think this example shows?

Answer 23

Physical structures like a stone fireplace shows that people could make and control fire, cook food, keep warm and make light.

Question 24

Name another one?

Answer 24

Objects like artifacts for example a ostrich egg with a small hole in the top shows people recorded what they saw to express themselves and to show awareness of beauty.

Question 25

Why did archaeologists found which help them to see how people left?

Answer 25

Art artifacts like rock painting shows that people recorded what I saw to express themselves and show awareness of beauty.

Question 26

What does bones or skeletons in a grave mean?

Answer 26

People worked out what they eat and how healthy they were, may show cultural believes how they were buried.

Question 27

What caused people to live to become systematic?

Answer 27

Farming

Question 28

Out of what did people build their houses?

Answer 28

They had stone walls and straw roofs.

Question 29

How did the people of the countries protect the nomadic people?

Answer 29

They let them move freely through the borders.

Question 30

What did the San believe in?

Answer 30

They believed that leisure time was important and so they spent a lot of time talking, joking, making music and doing religious dances. They had rich agricultural spiritual life. It was closely linked to their knowledge of the natural world and their place in it.

Question 31

What was another name for the shamans or medicine man?

Answer 31

The witch doctor or sangoma.