Deck 15: Mapungubwe and Great Zimbabwe in Africa

Question 1

Bantu-speaking metallurgists reached southeastern Africa about __________________.

A) AD 300
B) AD 770
C) AD 1138
D) AD 1420

Answer 1

A

Question 2

A kraal is a(n) ______________________.

A) mixture of dung and mud used to make walls
B) village chief's daughter
C) enclosed place for livestock
D) nugget of iron ore

Answer 2

C

Question 3

The Chifumbaze is an example of a(n) ________________ complex.

A) Early Iron Age
B) Neolithic
C) Chalcolithic
D) Late Iron Age

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Decorative birds at Great Zimbabwe were made of __________________.

A) soapstone
B) silver
C) turquoise
D) cattle dung

Question 5

Which animal symbolically represented the rulers of Great Zimbabwe?

A) Zebra
B) Lion
C) Crocodile
D) Jaguar

Question 6

Schroda was a Middle Iron Age village established by ______________ people.

A) Kopje
B) Azande
C) Zhizo
D) Blombos

Question 7

The Middle Iron Age began about _______________.

A) AD 900
B) 1475 cal BC
C) 37 cal BC
D) AD 2187

Question 8

In this context, the abbreviation CCP stands for _________________________.

A) Corral Central Pattern
B) Central Cattle Pattern
C) Contained Cows Pattern
D) Centralized Cattle Prediction

Question 9

The elites of Mapungubwe and Great Zimbabwe acquired glazed ceramics from ____________________.

A) Venezuela
B) Morocco
C) Pakistan
D) China

Question 10

Great Zimbabwe might have had as many as _________________ residents.

A) 90
B) 800
C) 2500
D) 18,000

Question 11

A central kraal might contain cattle but also _____________________.

A) diamond mines
B) men's burials
C) adobe pyramids
D) pithouses

Question 12

____________________ were a particularly prized import in Iron Age southeastern Africa.

A) Etruscan ceramics
B) Llamas
C) Glass beads
D) Jade masks

Question 13

What temperature must be reached to smelt iron?

A) 1100°C
B) 350°C
C) 9000°C
D) 6300°C

Question 14

_________ may have controlled as much as 90,000 square kilometers of the plateau region.

A) Schroda
B) Great Zimbabwe
C) Zhizo
D) Bambandyanalo

Question 15

Which of these was the defining feature of the Zimbabwe Pattern?

A) Copper bangles
B) Stone-walled enclosures
C) Hilltop kraals
D) Soapstone eagles

Question 16

Who built the site of Great Zimbabwe?

A) Arabs
B) Phoenicians
C) Queen of Sheba
D) Zimbabwe culture

Question 17

Lake Victoria is not bordered by ____________________.

A) Tanzania
B) Kenya
C) Egypt
D) Uganda

Question 18

Some cognitive archaeologists interpret Great Zimbabwe's Great Enclosure at reflecting a ____________ division.

A) plant/animal
B) male/female
C) dark/light
D) nature/culture

Question 19

The waste of extracting iron is called ______________.

A) kraal
B) slag
C) bloom
D) daga

Question 20

Great Zimbabwe is located in the modern nation of ____________________.

A) Zambezi
B) Botswana
C) Tanzania
D) Zimbabwe

Question 21

All of these grains were stored at Bambandyanalo except ________________.

A) finger millet
B) sorghum
C) einkorn wheat
D) pearl millet

Question 22

The state centered at Great Zimbabwe was the successor to the __________ state.

A) Torwa
B) Uganda
C) Mutapa
D) Mapungubwe

Question 23

Archaeologists have used the modern ______________ traditions to infer female initiations at Great Zimbabwe.

A) Arikara
B) Hohokam
C) Venda
D) Mbuti

Question 24

Two elite burials at Mapungubwe contained gold _____________.

A) lions
B) pheasants
C) rhinos
D) hippos

Question 25

Mapungubwe's peak population was probably around _____________________.

A) 12
B) 350
C) 24,000
D) 5000

Question 26

One male burial at Mapungubwe included a gold ________________.

A) scepter
B) star
C) mask
D) phallus

Question 27

Great Zimbabwe grew into a large town after about _______________.

A) AD 17
B) AD 850
C) AD 1290
D) AD 1670

Question 28

When the Portuguese encountered the Mutapa State, they (the Portuguese) were primarily interested in _______________.

A) soapstone
B) iron
C) cattle
D) gold

Question 29

Great Zimbabwe declined around _________________.

A) AD 1420
B) AD 1530
C) AD 900
D) AD 1980

Question 30

The _________________ confluence was a good place for African settlements, like Schroda.

A) Congo Basin
B) Shashe-Limpopo
C) Shashe-Zaire
D) Zambezi

Question 31

Limpopo and Zambezi are major rivers in southeastern Africa.

Question 32

European sailors who first encountered the Mutapa state were Spanish.

Question 33

Bambandyanalo is also known as K2.

Question 34

Around AD 1290-1300, Mapungubwe was abandoned.

Question 35

The Jaguar Paw burial was found at Mapungubwe.

Question 36

People of southeastern Africa used sorghum to brew beer.

Question 37

The primary ritual responsibility of Great Zimbabwe's rulers was ensuring the fertility of cattle.

Question 38

Bambandyanalo was established by Zhizo people.

Question 39

The people of Great Zimbabwe were the ancestors of modern Shona speakers.

Question 40

Sheep and goats were introduced to southeastern Africa from the Middle East.

Question 41

What is the genetic origin of southeastern African cattle?

Question 42

What is the Chifumbaze complex?

Question 43

Why is iron metallurgy such a technologically complex process?

Question 44

What is the Zimbabwe Pattern?

Question 45

What is daga? How was it used in southeastern African villages?

Question 46

By what process did rulers in this area become seen as sacred?

Question 47

Schroda does not appear to be an ideal setting for agriculture. Why did Zhizo people establish their capital there?

Question 48

What were the three capitals of the Mapungubwe state?

Question 49

In what ways was metallurgy a symbolically male activity in historic times?

Question 50

Who were the "Leopard's Kopje" people?

Question 51

Discuss the ritual symbolism of the crocodile in the cultures of Mapungubwe and Great Zimbabwe.

Question 52

What role did cattle play in southeastern African state-level polities?

Question 53

What was the cultural and historical significance of the "Bantu Expansion"?

Question 54

The Central Cattle Pattern was the basis of village life in southeastern Africa for centuries. What was this pattern?

Question 55

How did Shona oral traditions contribute to a cognitive archaeological interpretation of Great Zimbabwe's Great Enclosure?