Early Africa

Question 1

what’s the time period of early Africa literature

Answer 1

3100 bc- 1800 bc

Question 2

What year was the Rosetta Stone discovered?

Answer 2

1799

Question 3

What year did the Egyptian queen Cleopatra die?

Answer 3

30

Question 4

Egypt’s old kingdom covers the time period…?

Answer 4

2700-2200 BC

Question 5

Nile river is how long?

Answer 5

4000 miles

Question 6

The Nile was referred to as Aur which means?

Answer 6

Black

Question 7

Why was the Nile necessary for Egyptian civilization?

Answer 7

Farming and transportation

Question 8

Name of the earliest Egyptian writing

Answer 8

Hieroglyphics

Question 9

What does hieroglyphics mean?

Answer 9

Priest carving, sacred writing

Question 10

What was writing written on?

Answer 10

Papyrus

Question 11

Definition of caravan

Answer 11

A group of people using camels as an alternative source of transportation

Question 12

Ghana and Mali are noted as being the first _____

Answer 12

Powerful kingdoms

Question 13

What natural resource did Ghana have that made it so powerful?

Answer 13

Gold

Question 14

In which year did the first Spanish ship carry enslaved Africans to the Americas?

Answer 14

1518

Question 15

What was the middle passage?

Answer 15

The brutal sea voyage from west Africa to Americas

Question 16

African art is unique because_____

Answer 16

They used many medias

Art was created for religion, ceremonies, and everyday uses

Question 17

What instrument was the most important in African culture?

Answer 17

Drum

Question 18

Traditional African music is ____ (integration of dancing and music)

Answer 18

Polyrhythmic

Question 19

Why were masks worn during dances?

Answer 19

It was major part of ceremonial life

Only performers were allowed to wear the masks

Question 20

Who were the two greatest Egyptian gods?

Answer 20

Osiris and Isis

Question 21

Who was the God of the dead?

Answer 21

Osiris

Question 22

Who was the God of the sun disk?

Answer 22

Aten

Question 23

Which ruler replaced all of Egypt’s gods with the sun disk God and made to worship him of a mandatory religion?

Answer 23

Akhenaten

Question 24

What was the role of scribe valued in Egyptian culture?

Answer 24

Took many years to learn
Prominent status (upper class)
Allowed for official document keeping
Hieroglyphs were put in tombs

Question 25

Why were the deceased preserved as money?

Answer 25

Because is was their way of preparing for the after life

Question 26

What is oral tradition?

Answer 26

The passing of stories, songs, sayings and other materials by word of mouth

Question 27

Traditional African societies derived their sense of identity from_____

Answer 27

Membership in an extended family and kinship group

Question 28

Professional story tellers

Answer 28

Griots

Question 29

What was one religious idea that most African societies had in common?

Answer 29

Creator God (Yoruban God olorun)

Question 30

What was the significance of ancestors in African society?

Answer 30

They were thought to be closer to God

Question 31

What is the name of the being who was both cunning and foolish in their myths

Answer 31

Trickster

Question 32

What’s the largest continent?

Answer 32

Asia