RMS The Bantu Migration

Why do people migrate?

• Economics

• Politics

• Religion

• All of these and more

Besides warfare, why might having the knowledge of iron be beneficial to the Bantu in a forest environment? 

• Iron tools for cutting through the jungle
• Iron can be melted into statues
• Iron looked cool so they went with it
• Iron is as strong as wood

True or False: Swahili is one of the best known surviving languages of the Bantu. 

• True
• False

The language you learn as a child is called...

• Initial Language
• First Language
• Starter Language
• Practical Language

FIVE QUESTIONS
Textbook Pages 202-203
In Central Africa, when did humans begin to grow crops instead of gathering plants? During the ...

• Industrial Revolution
• Agricultural Religion
• Agricultural Revolution
• French Revolution

How many different languages now exist as off-shoots of the Bantu language?

• 250

• 350

• 450

• 550

The original homeland of the Bantu on a map was which country?

• Nigeria

• Algeria

• Kenya

• Senegal

What is the term for a language that's understood by various groups as a common language shared within groups?

• Lingua Helix

• Lingua Franca

• Zulu

• Swahili

The word "migration" refers to what?

• The movement of only people.

• The movement of people and animals looking for resources.

• The movement of animals only.

• None of these answers are correct.

True or False: Bantu is a language and a type of culture.

• True

• False