Costumes, religion and music Look at the murals about Ethiopia and answer the following questions. a. What is the oldest religion in Ethiopia? ___________________________________________________________________________ b. Who normally cook or do the shopping in Ethiopia, men or women? ___________________________________________________________________________ c. Do children on farms help with the household? ___________________________________________________________________________ d. What are the houses in rural Ethiopia made of? ___________________________________________________________________________ e. What’s the Ethiopian traditional costume name? ___________________________________________________________________________ f. Name three commonly used instruments in Ethiopian music. ___________________________________________________________________________
Have a look at the murals and answer the questions: 1. How many people live in Ethiopia? ___________________________________________________________________________ 2. Which region did the Queen Sheba live? ___________________________________________________________________________ 3. Name two Ethiopian musicians. ___________________________________________________________________________ 4. Name three cities of Ethiopia. ___________________________________________________________________________ 5. What's the name of the voodoo amulet consisting of a small cloth bag? ___________________________________________________________________________ 6. What are the two animals native from Ethiopia? ___________________________________________________________________________ 7. What is the most spoken language in Ethiopia? ___________________________________________________________________________ 8. How many months are there in the Ethiopian calendar? ___________________________________________________________________________ 9. Can you name a Christian celebration and a Muslim celebration? ___________________________________________________________________________ 10. Which is the most important river in Ethiopia? ___________________________________________________________________________
Archaeologist in Egypt a. What English archaeologist was also a mathematician and an astronomer? ___________________________________________________________________________ b. Who made a survey of the pyramids of Egypt? ___________________________________________________________________________ c. Who excavated many of the most important archaeological sites in Egypt? ___________________________________________________________________________ d. What did Flinders Petrie achieve? ___________________________________________________________________________ e. What did Howard Carter discover and when? ___________________________________________________________________________ f. What is the name of the valley where Tutankhamun’s tomb is? ___________________________________________________________________________
Ancient Egyptian Gods a. Who was the King of the Gods? And the Sun God? ___________________________________________________________________________ b. What happened when the King of the Gods was combined with the Sun God? ___________________________________________________________________________ c. Gods and goddesses had human body and the head of an ‌ ___________________________________________________________________________ d. Which animal was chosen to represent? Anubis Horus Sobek
Heket
Mummification 1. Why did Egyptians put their family’s things in their graves when they died? ___________________________________________________________________________ 2. Why were poor Egyptian buried in the sand? ___________________________________________________________________________ 3. How did the rich mummify their bodies? ___________________________________________________________________________
Pyramids 1. What are the pyramids? ___________________________________________________________________________ 2. Who were the pharaohs? ___________________________________________________________________________ 3. Where were pharaohs buried? ___________________________________________________________________________ 4. Name three famous pharaohs. ___________________________________________________________________________
Hieroglyphics 1. What is a hieroglyphic? ___________________________________________________________________________ 2. What’s the hidden message in the hieroglyphic? Write it down and translate it. ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________
1. How many British colonies were there? ___________________________________________________________________________ 2. Name five British Colonies and place them on the map.
3. When was the independence of Egypt? ___________________________________________________________________________ 4. What's the current name of Nyasaland? ___________________________________________________________________________ 5. In which country is the rupee the official currency? ___________________________________________________________________________ 6. Which is the capital of Nigeria? ___________________________________________________________________________ 7. When was the independence of South Africa? ___________________________________________________________________________ 8. What's the best known National Park in Tanganyka (current Tanzania)? ___________________________________________________________________________ 9. Are there any big cities in Africa? Can you find the name of some of these big cities? ___________________________________________________________________________
Match the names with the facts. 1. David Livingstone
2. John Hanning Speke
3. Mungo Park
4. Henry Stanley
a. His real name was John Rowland. b. Crossed Africa from west to east and discovered the Zambezi River and Victoria Falls. c. Was the first European to reach the source of the Nile. d. Head an expedition to find the source of Niger River. e. Was the first European to reach Lake Victoria. f. Became an abolitionist after seeing the horrors of the African Slave trade. g. Went after David Livingstone. h. Died in Nigeria after his ship hit a rock and drowned. i. Said “Dr Livingstone, I presume�.
1. Are the following sentences TRUE or FALSE? Correct the false sentences. a. Florence baker was sold as a slave when she was 14. __________ __________________________________________________________________ b. Florence Baker died in 1893. __________ __________________________________________________________________ c. Delia Akeley was a British explorer. __________ __________________________________________________________________ d. Delia Akeley led her own African expeditions. __________ __________________________________________________________________ e. Delia Akeley explored the Nile River. __________ __________________________________________________________________ f. Mary Kingsley was an American explorer. __________ __________________________________________________________________ g. Mary Kingsley landed in Sierra Leone in 1893 __________ __________________________________________________________________ h. Mary Kinsley lived with African people. __________ __________________________________________________________________ i. Jane Goodall is well-known by her study of social and family interactions of wild elephants. __________ __________________________________________________________________ j. People knew about Goodall’s work through a series of articles in
National Geographic. __________
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