Unit 1 African American Studies Review 09/22/23

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Across
  1. 3. systematic process done by the Federal Housing Administration to deem neighborhoods desirable or not based on a color system
  2. 6. a blending of religion, food, and language when groups of people come together (Gullah languagE = English + West African language)
  3. 7. oldest Sudanic empire
  4. 8. Nigerian ancestral people near Abujs who it was discovered made terra cotta statutes as well as being iron smelters
  5. 12. spread of a group of people across space
  6. 15. region of Africa where pearl millet, cowpeas (blackeye), groundnut (peanut), cotton, and watermelon were domesticated
  7. 17. "The Lion King" who is said to have found the Mali Empire
  8. 21. royal queen thought to be from Ethiopia or Saba in Yemen who had built a major compound in Yaha 30 miles from Axum
  9. 23. a major metal that many people thought was brought to Africa but was being smelted at the same time in Africa as in Europe
  10. 25. diffusion type where a high status persons ideas spreads to lay people
  11. 26. thought to be the wealthiest man in Africa and very generous, a leader of the Mali Empire
  12. 28. syncretic religion practiced in Brazil and mixing Catholic gods with West African orishas
  13. 29. ancestral people of many languages that exist throughout East and South Africa today like Swahili and Zulu
  14. 31. number of official languages recognized by the South African government
  15. 32. religion that people living in cities converted to once exposed to through trade
  16. 35. major city of trade on the Niger river that was center of trade and learning
Down
  1. 1. geographic body that was integral to trade between Middle East, Europe, and Africa (East Africa)
  2. 2. a major feature of transportation for the interior of African civilizations
  3. 4. West African storyteller
  4. 5. traded throughout and was valuable because found only in remote places like the highlands of Ethiopia
  5. 9. an Islamic college that were constructed throughout West Africa under the rule of Mali Empire
  6. 10. a Bantu language of South Africa that was the mother tongue of Nelson Mandela
  7. 11. Jamaican author who wrote the poem "Outcast"
  8. 13. major city if East Africa that had major trade with the world
  9. 14. symbolic bird that looks to past to inform the present
  10. 16. Ethiopian king who converted to Christianity when he had interaction with two young boys who ended in Axum after ship had been captured. His conversion led to conversion of may Ethiopians
  11. 18. powerful leader of the of the Songhay Empire who was into astronomy and brought experts, was open to variety of religious practices, and built schools
  12. 19. symbol that was in the Aksumite coin after Ezana's conversion
  13. 20. not a biological real category but created by societies
  14. 22. another name for the empire of Ghana
  15. 24. place of the black studies conference we reviewed that was titles "Paradox with Promise"
  16. 27. largest Sudanic empire
  17. 30. son of Solomon and Sheba who supposedly brought the Arc of the Covenant to Ethiopia
  18. 33. name of the church where 4 little girls were killed in 1963 when bombs were placed in church by KKK members
  19. 34. was the origin place of coffee and teff in 3000 BCE