APWH Chapter 8- Early Civilizations in Africa

Bronze heads sculptures and relief plaques depicting West African court life were created in

A. Benin

In regard to state building in West Africa, it can be said that

A. Ghana was the first great commercial state there.

Which of the following statements accurately depicts the nature of the African lineage group?

A. It was similar in many respects to the clan in China

Which of the following states developed in the souther half of Africa?

A. Luba

A Malay settlement was established on the island of

A. Madagascar.

The great iron-working culture of northern Nigeria was the

A. Nok

Which of the following is a true statement about African building materials during the first millennium of the common era?

A. Stone was increasingly used in West Africa beginning in the first millennium C.E.

In southern Africa,

A. an integration of Khoisan and Bantu-speaking peoples took place

There are San rock paintings discovered in Africa that depict illustrations of ritual ceremonies directed by the village shamans to

A. induce rain

African culture

A. is notable for its incorporation of bards to retain and spread communal history and religious beliefs.

The local chieftan of a Mali farming village was called a

A. mansa

The distinctively carved stone pillars, used to mark the tombs of Axum kings, are known as

A. stelae.

Recent archeological and anthropological discoveries have shown that

B. African societies were much more involved in worldwide developments of human history than had previously been believed.

Which of the following is a true statement about Swahili?

B. As a language, it employed Bantu grammar and Arabic linguistic terms

The African country in which prehistoric predecessors of human beings probably first lived in

B. Kenya

Malayan traders and settlers

B. May have introduced yams and bananas to Africa.

The great river that dominates the western region of Africa, the so-called "hump of Africa," is the

B. Niger

The Kingdom of Ghana

B. exported gold, leather goods, slaves, and ostrich feathers.

A unique aspect of the ancient Ethiopian civilization was the fact that

B. it adopted the form of Christianity practiced in Egypt.

Which of the following was not true about the spread of Islam in Africa?

B. it interfered with the efforts of African rulers to strengthen their power.

All of the following was true about the souther African state of Zimbabwe except

B. it played no significant role in the gold trade with the Swahili states to the east.

Before Islam developed in Africa,

B. many religions believed that human life had two stages, one earthly and the other "external."

Axum was

B. originally a colony of the Kingdom of Sheba in the Arabian Peninsula

East African trade

B. provided a lively, ocean-going commercial intercourse with civilizations far to the east.

Which of the following is the earliest form of surviving architecture found in Africa?

B. the pyramids of Egypt

In regard to the urban life of African towns, it can be said that

B. they usually developed from smaller, fortified walled villages.

Slavery in Africa

B. was an ancient practice that used people for a range of tasks, including military service, agricultural and construction labor, and for domestic and royal servants.

Which of the following statements about the Sahara Desert is true?

C. At one point in time, before it began to dry out, it was an area that was green and flourishing with life.

Karl Mauch found the ruins of

C. Great Zimbabwe

Which of the following is not a valid observation about the ancient civilization of the Kush?

C. It spread its empire to the north by driving the Romans out of Egypt.

The northern area of Africa, from the Atlantic to the Indian Oceans, is composed of the greatest desert on earth, the

C. Sahara.

The Ethiopian Christian Dynasty which experienced a long-lasting conflict with African Muslims, was the

C. Zagwe

Music in African societies

C. employed various musical instruments, including the harp, bells and the xylophone.

The kingdom of Mali

C. maintained a very active pro-islamic policy under Mansa Musa

The lowest and most basic level of African social groupings was the

C. nuclear family.

African music

C. produced a totality of music in its combination of voice and instrument sounds.

The vast grasslands that border the great desert region of the Sahara are known as

C. savannahs.

The original reason for the rise of the kingdom of Ghana was

C. the middleman role it played in the gold trade between its neighbors who produced it and the Moroccans who distributed it to the Mediterranean world.

The ancient civilization that was located in the highlands of what is known today as Ethiopia was

D. Axum.

The family of languages spoken by people who inhabit the region of Central Africa south of the Sahara desert is

D. Bantu

All of the following statements about the arrival of Islam in Africa are true except

D. Berber resistance blocked Arab expansion to the westward continental limits until after 1200

The nomadic mountain-dwellers of North Africa, who served as trade intermediaries for the great trans-Saharan commerce were the

D. Berbers.

Social practices typical to many African societies included

D. both b and c

African art

D. includes the impressively crafted, mortrarless structures at Great Zimbabwe

The following were true about the trans-Saharan caravan trade except

D. it brought the first islamic traders to central Africa in the first century B.C.E.

Islam in Africa

D. none of the above

If one traveled south from the grasslands of central Africa, one would reach the region of

D. some of the world's richest deposits of minerals.

The San

D. were often described as "bushmen" by later Europeans

In addition to woodcarvings, other major African artistic contributions have been

E. Saharan aqueducts at Aswan

Zanj

E. both a and d