Ancient Africa A Flashcards
What is linguistics ????????
The study of structure and changes of languages
Who are botanists. ????????
Scientists who study plants , can trace the movements of people by their crops
Most African villages had at least one official story teller called what
Griot
What is a rain forest
Tropical area of Africa known as the tropics. some parts receive as much as 100 inches of rain a year
When was Africa a land of thriving nations
Ancient times
What is the Horn of Africa
A peninsula
Who were the Bantus
An early African people
What is one way to organize Africa’s land and people
Divide the continent into regions
What is an oasis
A fertile area with water
What is the savanna
The area between the Sahara and Kalahari deserts with tall grasses and few trees
What is oral history
Stories passed on from generation to generation that are spoken and not written
Why do stories get mixed up
Because they get compared with other stories
Africa is the only content to have …… North and south of the equator?
Deserts
What is the largest desert in Africa?
Sahara
Which desert is found in the north of Africa?
Sahara
Which deserts are found in the south of Africa?
Kalahari and Namib deserts
What forms when the wind blows the water vapor high into nearby mountains without allowing rain to fall on the lowlands?
Rain shadow desert
Much of the Tropics are made up of?
Rai forests
Africa has the largest …… Area of any continent?
Tropical area
Where is Mount Kilimanjaro located and how tall is it?
Tanzania and it is over nineteen thousand feet high
Name 4 methods used to track the migration of African people
Linguistics
Botany
Archaeology
Oral history
How do botanists trace the Bantu people’s migration routes?
By tracking the spread of crops. When the bantu people moved they took seeds with them
How do linguists trace the migration routs of the Bantu?
By studying the words and grammar that people lent and borrowed
Whose job was it to learn the villages history to pass on to the next generation?
Griot
What was the griots job?
To teach the children and remind the adults of their past
How do archaeologists know about the weapons that the early African people used for hunting and fighting? And what animals they hunted?
From cave paintings
