AAFS 286 Midterm

Diop: Why is he importance of Egypt as a reconciliation of Africa's civilization with history?

"For us to return to Egypt, in every domain is necessary condition to reconcile African civilization with history". Egypt will play the same role in the rethinking and renewing of African culture that ancient Greece in Rome please in the culture of the west.

The Kings importance?

-Balance btw humanity and the divine -Stood for ancient African idea of duality -considered an incarnation of God.

What is the Mercator projection Map?

-Distorts size and shape of contents -Portrays continents of Northern Hemisphere as larger than true size -Fake map

Asante's standpoint on African history

-From the standpoint of Africans -Africans agency in interpretation -Africans as subjects of their history

What is the Peters projection Map?

-Portrays a more accurate size of continents -True map

What is the African-Egyptian question (why the ethnicity of the ancient Egyptians was important and why western scholars attempted to make the ancient Egyptians white)?

1. European writers attempted to make the ancient Egyptians wait to deny the civilizing role of Africa.. 2. Two of the major argument of Asante & Abarry the color or "Africanity" of ancient Egyptian.

What are the 3 aspects to the difficulty of writing African history?(Asante)

1. The lack of a clear vision. 2.The lack of thematic centrality(vastness of the subject matter). 3.The distortion of African Agency.

Nile Valley contributions

1.Architecture - temples in the building, the pyramids 2.Writing 3.Math and geometry 4.Medicine 5.Religion 6.Philosophy

What are the problems that underline the study of Africa?(William Barnett)

1.Mistaken or Ethnocentric views(biased perspective) 3. Skewed ideas of Africas landscape: Tropical jungles(view held by Americans and Europeans)

What are the 3 Geographical engines that drive culture and societies of Africa? (Asante)

1.The Saharan Generator(Northern Africa:Green Sahara desert): Cross fertilization of ideas.(Forcing people to migrate and taking their cultures with them) 2. The rain forest home: Bio diversity, tress, & plants(papyrus). 3. The Great rift valley: Tracing the ancestors of modern humans. Human evolution

What was Herodotus description of Egypt and the ancient Egyptians?

1.maintained that ancient Egyptian were black. 2.Greece borrowed from Egypt all elements of their civilization 3.Egypt was the cradle of civilization

What Egyptian Philosopher is associated with Matt?

Amenhotep, son of Hapu(1400 BCE) -most revered of Egyptian Philosopher's

Hegemony

Domination

What are Dynasties?

Family of Kings and Queen.(30 dynasties )

What is a papyrus plant?

First writing material(paper) used by Egyptians.

Why is Egypt (Kemet) important?

Greeks learnt a lot from Egypt

what kinds of evidence does Basil Davidson rely on in the video?

Historical, Anthropology, and Archeology

What is the "Two-Cradle" Theory?(Drop)

Humanity and civilization

Why did the ancient Egyptians think it was necessary to possess the ethical ideals of Matt?

In order to hold back chaos in every aspect of life.

What is the importance of "Oral history"?

It is used as a resource for reconstruction of African history prior to colonialism.

What are the other kingdoms of the Nile Valley Civilization?

Kush, Axum, and Nubia: Reunification

Who was the earliest women to walk East Africa?

Lucy from Ethiopia

"Imhotep - Multi Genius." Inhotep's greatest contribution was in what specific field?

Medicine and Philosophy

What are the three main periods of ancient Egyptian history?

Old kingdom, Middle Kingdom, and New kingdom

What was significance of the red crown and the white crown in Egypt?

Red color on crown: Lower Egypt White color on crown: Upper Egypt The 2 colors represent unity. The two opposite pillars of Kingship(High and low. Good and Bad )

What are the 2 events that have distorted perceptions about African History

Slavery and colonialism

What does the myth the dark continent mean ?

That Africa is a continent with no history or civilization

What is Africa centered perspective of history?

That the "Africa-Centered" perspective rest on the premise that's valid to posit Africa as a GEOGRAPHICAL AND CULTURAL starting base for discussion about people of Africa descent.

What was the main purpose of Cheikh Anta Diop's arguments using pictures from the tomb of Ramses III in the video?

The ancient Egyptians were black never to be confused of people of other races

What is Maat?

The idea necessary to process: 1) order, 2) balance, 3)harmony, 4)justice 5)truth 6) righteousness, 7) reciprocity

What is the purpose of history ?

The survival of tradition and communities.(Reserve communities)

Agency

The will to act

what is the purpose of the video?

To show the development of history and culture in Africa. To show that Africa's has created great civilization that contributed to the world.

The white crown and red crown worn by ancient Egyptian kingssymbolized the unification of.........

Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt

The problem of viewing North Africa as part of the Middle East rather than Africa.

White people thought Africans as sub-saharan/Black- the common perception that Africa really means sub-saharan Black African(Shaped by Colonialism & ethnocentrism)

Egyptologist

a person who studies ancient Egypt language, history, and culture.

The ancient Egyptians were ruled by families of kings popularly known in history as

dynasties

sante and Abarry argue that there probably would never have been a question about the Africanity and blackness of the Egyptians had Africans never been...............

enslaved

In the video "Imhotep," the narrator states that Imhotep was deified by the ancient Egyptians and regarded by the Greeks as the god of...............................

healing

In the video "Imhotep - Multi Genius." Inhotep's greatest contribution was in what specific field?

medicine

Which of the following is NOT among the Geographical Engines that drives the cultures and societies of Africa discussed by Asante and highlighted in class?

the Nile River

Which of the following geographical engines is important for promoting the cross-fertilization of ideas?

the Saharan Generator

Which of the following is NOT among the difficulties of writing African history discussed by Asante?

the clear understanding of history

Herodotus describes the ancient kingdom of Egyptas.............................................

the gift of the Nile