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Heritage Through SA Flashcards

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1
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How many provinces in South Africa

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Nine

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What is legislature

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Each province was ruled by a political party that The people in the province vote for the party with the most votes has the most say The ruling provincial party is not always is not the same is the party that rules the country

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What does diverse mean

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Very different from each other and of various kinds

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What Does heritage mean

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The history , traditions and qualities that a country or society had for many years and that are considered An important part of its character

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What does inherited mean

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Inherit something from somebody , to receive money , property , et cetera from someone when they die

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What does intangible mean

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Something that does not exist as a physical thing but it’s still valuable

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What does fossil mean

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The preserved remains or traces of an animal , plant or other organism from the remote past

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What does significance mean

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The importance of something especially when it this has An effect on what happens in the future

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What does tangible mean

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That can be clearly seem to exist that you can touch and feel

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What is the cradle of humankind Heritage site Known as the worlds richest Hominin site

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The cradle of humanKind world heritage site is known as the worlds richest hominin site because it is home to around 40% of the worlds human ancestor fossils

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What does the sites at the cradle of humankind world Heritage site contain

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The sites at the cradle of humankind world Heritage site contains a number of sites which maintain the fossilised remains of some of the earliest members members of the human family as well a stone , bone and horn tools

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Explain about Dr Robert Broom found at the sterkfontein Caves

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He found a 2 to 3,000,000 year old hominid skull no one is Mrs ples

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Explain a doctor ron Clark found

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Dr wrong clock found little foot a near complete fossil skeleton

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Province is home to the cradle of humankind

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Gauteng

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15
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What are some of the famous caves for digging fossils

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Sterkfotein, swartkrans, and kromdraai

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What does mapungubwe mean

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Face of stone wisdom

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What was mapungbwe

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South Africa’s first kingdom It’s Highly sophisticated people traded gold and ivory with China , India and Egypt

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How many graveyards have been excavated From the site at mapungubwe

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Twenty- three graveyards have been excavated

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How many bodies in the graves with buried in the upright seated position associated with royalty and with a Verity of copper items and gold , exotic glass beads and other prestigious objects

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Three

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20
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What is the most spectacular of the gold discoveries at mapungubwe

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The little gold rhinoceros made from gold foil intact with minute pins around wooden core

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21
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Where is the gold rhino featured

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One of South Africa’s new national order of mapungubwe

22
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What does the gold rhinoceros come to symbolise

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High culture of mapungubwe The rhino Is also symbol Of leadership among the Shona people of Zimbabwe

23
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What have also been found with the golden-rhino

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The golden sceptre and the Golden bowl found in the same grave as the Golden rhino

24
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What is the village neighbouring mapungubwe

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K2

25
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What in the village of K2 has provided archaeologists with plenty of information about the lifestyles of the people of mapungubwe

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An ancient refuge sites has provided archaeologists with plenty of information about the lifestyles of the people of mapungubwe

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Why were three bodies in the graves in an upright Position

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The people in an upright position because it associated with royalty

27
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List three items that were found in the Graves alongside the bodies

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The little golden rhinoceros the Golden bowl and the golden sceptre

28
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How was the little rhinoceros made

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A wood carving with gold foil pinned on the outside with miniature pins

29
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When was the Castle of good hope in Cape Town built

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The Castle of good hope was built in January 1666

30
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what was built to replace the old entrance and when it was built

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The gateway was built to replace the old entrance in 1682

31
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What does VOC stand for give the English meaning

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VOC means Dutch East India company

32
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Who built the Castle of good hope

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Soldiers sailors and slaves build the Castle of good hope

33
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Why was the Castle of good hope built

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The Castle of good hope built as a replenishing station and for the protection of sailors

34
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When was the stonewalled city of kaditshwene near Zeerust abandoned

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In the 1820s

35
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Complete the sentence
kaditshwene Is the largest Iron Age Stonebuilt city in

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SA

36
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What was kaditshwene in the 1820s

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Larger than Cape Town and it was the manufacturing , trading and cultural capital

37
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What do oral testimony tell of the thriving Iron Age economy

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Oral testimony is says that the thriving Iron Age economy Was based on the indigenous techniques and technology of smelting of iron and mining of copper they were famed for their Exceptional skills as minors and smelting of iron and copper they’re visible traces of iron melting furnaces and manufacturing tales

38
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Complete the sentence

in ( 1. _____ ____ ) province there are remains of for all very large ( 2. _____ )

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  1. NORTH WEST
  2. TOWNS
39
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Where did Iron Age farmers live before towns were built for them

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In homesteads

40
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What was a violent time as the farming community is raided each other

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The 1700s onward

41
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Why did farmers join together and live in large towns To defend themselves

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Because farming communities were Raiding each other

42
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List the official languages

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English, Afrikaans, isixhosa, isizulu, Soto, sign-language, Tswana, ndebele

43
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What is the capital city of western cape

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Cape town

44
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What is the capital of eastern cape?

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Bisho

45
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What is the capital of northern cape?

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Kimberley

46
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What is the capital city of free state?

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Bloemfontein

47
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What is the capital city of kwazulu natal

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Pietermaritzburg

48
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What is the capital city of mpumalanga?

A

Nelspruit

49
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What is the capital city of gauteng?

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Johannesburg

50
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What is the capital city of Limpopo

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Polokwane

51
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What is the capital city north- west

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Mafikeng

Grade 5 History Term 3+4 (3 decks)

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