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Who are the Hunter-Gatherers?
These early africans moved from place to place hunting and gathering food
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What is the Slave Trade?
Between the 1500's to 1800's, African Rulers, Arab Traders, and European traders, all participated in this cruel act
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Who is Nelson Mandela?
He was South Africa's first democratically elected President in 1994 despite having been previously jailed for protesting. He also went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize
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What is Sanitation?
Many rural africans lack access to clean water and this, a way to safely remove waste from a society.
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What are rites of passage?
Many Africans have special ceremonies that mark a significant stage of their life when young boys or girls reach adulthood, they are commonly referred to as this
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Who are the Bantu People?
These people shared a common language, culture and technology, and around 3000BC migrated to more fertile areas south of the Sahara
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What is 12 Million?
This is the number Africans sent to the Americas for slavery
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What is apartheid?
Also known as 'apartness', this political maneuver split up white South Africans from black South Africans, establishing rules that usually limited the rights of black South Africans and led to a lower quality of life
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What is Social Status?
Music and dance are vital elements in African culture. The roles that people have in African Dances after reflects their this, meaning position in the community?
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What are Griots?
These are West African storytellers that preserve a groups history by orally passing on stories from generation to generation.
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What is the Swahili Culture
Between 1000AD & 1500AD a blend of Arab and African ways led to the rise of this culture
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What is Britain?
This country was the first to make slavery illegal, but also participated in African Colonization, in order to gain access to Africa's rich abundance of precious metals, timber, and animal hides.
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What is nationalism?
This word defines a peoples desire to rule themselves and have their own independent country. Kawme Nrumah was a successful leader in granting Ghana its independence from the British.
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What are medical advances?
These advances have led to a significantly lowered death rate for infants and children
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What is a compound?
Rural families in Africa used to live in this, a group of homes surround by a wall. the trend nowadays is urbanization, moving from rural settings to the city.
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What is an administrator?
Mali's most famous ruler was Mansa Musa, he helped Timbuktu become the center of trade, education, and islamic culture, because he was a skilled type of leader, also known as this type of person.
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What is advanced weaponry?
Colonization, the taking over of Africa, and splitting it up into regions by different countries, was made possible by this advanced type of technology
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What is discrimination?
this word defines the unfair or unequal treatment of a group, and led to great dissatisfaction amongst the africans under colonial rule.
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What is life expectancy?
The length in which a person is expected to live is called this. In Africa it has dropped from the age of 60, to the 30's, because of malnutrition, poor sanitation, poor access to clean water, and AIDS
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What is a nuclear family?
In rural Arica, most families consist of extended families, including several generations, in urban Africa however, a family that consists just of a husband wife and their children, known as this, is most common.
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Who are the Kush, Axum, Great Zimbabwe, Ghana & Mali
These Early African Kingdoms & Empires grew wealthy from trading
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What are Plantations?
Colonizers introduced railroads, roads, new feed and farming techniques, and forced Africans to work on these large farms
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What are Refugees?
Colonization divided once-united regions and combined ethnic and religious groups that did not get along, which led to violence and civil wars. Many people died, or became these, meaning one who flees to another country to escape unlivable conditions
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What is malnutrition?
The state of being short of adequate access to healthy food, or adequate amounts of food, leading to sickness, disease, and possibly death.
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What is a Clan?
Many Africans belong to a particular lineage, a larger family group with close blood ties. A large group of people united by a common ancestor are called these






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