Unit 1 African American Studies Review 09/22/23

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