Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Africa Quiz Review

If you complete this review below you will be able to use it on the test. If turned in completed on the test day you will get ten percent towards the test.

1. Were African societies Patrilineal or Matrilineal?
2. What was a griot and what was their purpose?
3. Where does our knowlage of African society come from?
4. Who held the most power in African societies?
5. What spread across Africa by Muslim traders and Christian Missionaries?
6. What was the purpose of African dances?
7. Who was Muhammad Ture and what did he accomplish?
8. What did the rulers of Mali do?
9. How did the people of Ghana become wealthy?
10. Where was Ghana located?
11. How did the kings of Ghana rule?
12. Who was Sunni Ali and what did he accomplish?
13. How did the kingdom of Zimbabwe form?
14. What part of Africa did Islam spread to?

Use your notes as well as section one and two of chapter 13 in your online textbook


PowerPoint Notes 11/13-11/16

Below is the link to the Powerpoint notes that we took from Monday to Thursday. If you were absent there is the notes as well as links to the accompanying videos that we watched in class. Thrusday we will be playing the Kahoot game to review for the Quiz that will be on Friday. When finished with the quiz on Friday I will be checking your notes for a grade. You will also be able to use the notes on the test.

Link to powerpoint:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1UBNQB2snkVOwsBiTZ9X9GeQcoVNQyQIF

Videos we have watched in class:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YueSWLem0Nc&t=1s
African Griot/ Storyteller

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i051_c51yvs
Example of African Dance

https://youtu.be/H_NChdbe3Y8 (we only watched the first 4 minutes)

Ancient Africa - A History Denied (Documentary)



The impact of Geography on Africa

On Monday as a class we went over together the chart that we had made of the different climate zones of Africa. Here is a snapshot of it below and we added it to our notes:


Use pages 306-307 to fill in the blanks.