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The Cultures of Africa, Asia
and the Middle East
SS7G12: The student will analyze the diverse cultures
of the people who live in Africa, Asia and the Middle
East.
Africa
Which African culture live on the coastal
regions of Africa?
A. Arab
B. Ashanti
C. Bantu
D. Swahili
Which African culture can be found in modern
day country of Ghana, the Ivory Coast, Togo
and Burkina Faso?
A. Arab
B. Ashanti
C. Bantu
D. Swahili
Which culture below speaks over 2000
languages?
A. Arab
B. Ashanti
C. Bantu
D. Swahili
Which culture below live in Northern Africa,
speak Arabic and follow Islam?
A. Arab
B. Ashanti
C. Bantu
D. Swahili
Which culture migrates below the Sahara and
central Africa?
A. Arab
B. Ashanti
C. Bantu
D. Swahili
Which culture believe in Mili, which is that spirits
can possess the human body, and practice rituals
to rid humans of those spirits?
A. Arab
B. Ashanti
C. Bantu
C. Swahili
Which culture believe that a holy man
produced a Golden Stool and that Nayme is
the supreme god?
A. Arab
B. Ashanti
C. Bantu
D. Swahili
Which culture is known as the largest
migrating culture in African history?
A. Arab
B. Ashanti
C. Bantu
D. Swahili
Which culture are influenced by Christian
missionaries as well as Islam?
A. Arab
B. Ashanti
C. Bantu
D. Swahili
Which culture follows animist religions (belief
that spirits can be found in natural objects)?
A. Arab
B. Ashanti
C. Bantu
D. Swahili
Nayme mostly means?
A. supreme god
B. holy man
C. spirits can possess a body
D. none of the above
Golden Stool was?
A. A supreme god
B. produced by holy man
C. animist religion
D. a spirit
Mila mostly means?
A. Spirits can be found in natural objects and
surroundings.
B. Spirits can be found in humans?
C. Spirits can be possessed by humans?
D. None of the above.
Animist religions is the
practice of?
A. Removing spirits from a persons body.
B. Removing spirits from natural objects.
C. Voodoo
D. None of the above.
Middle East
Which group believe themselves to be
descendants of Abraham through his
son Ishmael?
A. Arabs
B. Sunni
C. Shia
D. Kurds
Most Arabs who practice Islam are?
A. Jewish
B. Christians
C. Muslims
D. Hindu
Which Muslim below make up 90% of
the Muslim world?
A. Arabs
B. Shia
C. Sunni
D. Kurds
Which culture below makes up 10% of
the Muslim world?
A. Arab
B. Sunni
C. Shia
D. Kurds
Which culture below are also known
as Shia Muslims?
A. Kurds
B. Persians
C. Sunni
D. Arabs
Which culture below live in
mountainous regions of Turkey, Syria,
Iraq and Iran?
A. Arab
B. Sunni
C. Kurds
D. Persians
Which culture below have their own
language and are a very “distinct”
group of people?
A. Arabs
B. Sunni
C. Shia
D. Kurds
Which culture below is also known as
Persians?
A. Sunni
B. Kurds
C. Arabs
D. Shia
Which culture below believe that a
family member should succeed
Muhammad?
A. Arab
B. Kurds
C. Shia
D. Sunni
Which culture below believe that a
member of the community should
succeed Muhammad?
A. Arab
B. Sunni
C. Shia
D. Kurds
What country do the Persians and
Shia culture live in today?
A. Turkey
B. Syria
C. Iran
D. Iraq
Which term below means “group of
people who share cultural ideas and
beliefs?”
A. Religious group
B. Ethnic group
C. Monotheism
D. Polytheism
Which term below means “group of
people who share a belief system?”
A. Ethnic group
B. Religious group
C. Monotheism
D. Polytheism
Which religion below began in the Middle East?
A. Christianity
B. Judaism
C. Islam
D. All of the above
What is the religious text for Judaism?
A. Quran
B. Bible
C. Torah
D. Vedas
What is the religious text for
Christianity?
A. Bible
B. Torah
C. Quran
D. Vedas
What is the religious text for Islam?
A. Bible
B. Torah
C. Vedas
D. Quran
Who is the religious leader for
Christianity?
A. Jesus
B. Abraham
C. Muhammad
D. Gandhi
Who is the religious leader for
Judaism?
A. Abraham
B. Jesus
C. Muhammad
D. Gandhi
What is the religious leader for Islam?
A. Jesus
B. Abraham
C. Muhammad
D. Confucius
Which religion is a story of exile?
A. Islam
B. Christianity
C. Judaism
D. Hinduism
Which leader is connected to all three
early religions?
A. Jesus
B. Muhammad
C. Jesus
D. Abraham
Where did all three early religions
begin?
A. Africa
B. Middle East
C. Southwest Asia
D. North America
What term means “belief in one god”?
A. Mila
B. Monotheism
C. Polytheism
D. Animist religion
Which term means “belief in many
gods”?
A. Animist religion
B. Mila
C. Polytheism
D. Monotheism
A follower of Judaism is a?
A. Jew
B. Christian
C. Muslim
D. Animist
A follower of Christianity is a?
A. Jew
B. Christian
C. Muslim
D. Animist
All three early religions believe in?
A. Animist
B. Mila
C. Monotheism
D. Polytheism
Southeast Asia
Which culture is one of the oldest
religions in the world?
A. Buddhism
B. Hinduism
C. Shintoism
D. Islam
Which culture below believes in
karma and reincarnation?
A. Hinduism
B.Buddhism
C. Shintoism
D. Both A and B.
Which culture has the Vedas as their
religious text?
A. Hinduism
B. Buddhism
C. Islam
D. Shintoism
Which culture below is polytheistic?
A. Buddhism
B.Hinduism
C. Shintoism
D. Confucianism
Which culture below has a caste
system?
A. Buddhism
B. Shintoism
C. Confucianism
D. Hinduism
Which culture below is the 3rd largest
in the world?
A. Hinduism
B. Buddhism
C. Shintoism
D. Confucianism
Which culture below was founded by
a young rich man named Siddhartha
Gautama?
A. Hinduism
B. Buddhism
C. Shintoism
D. Confucianism
Which culture below is taught the
Four Noble Truths in life?
A. Hinduism
B. Buddhism
C. Shintoism
D. Confucianism
Which culture below follows the
Eightfold Path “the Middle Way” to
Nirvana to find “perfect peace”?
A. Hinduism
B. Buddhism
C. Shintoism
D. Confucianism
Which culture below must practice the
Five Pillars?
A. Hinduism
B. Buddhism
C. Islam
D. Shintoism
Which culture below follows the
teachings of Muhammad?
A. Islam
B. Hinduism
C. Buddhism
D. Shintoism
Which culture below is the 2nd largest
religion in the world?
A. Christianity
B. Hinduism
C. Islam
D. Buddhism
Which culture below is they largest
religion in the world?
A. Islam
B. Hinduism
C. Christianity
D. Buddhism
Which culture below is the earliest
religion of Japan?
A. Confucianism
B. Shintoism
C. Buddhism
D. Hinduism
Which culture below centers their
practice around “kami” which means
superior.
A. Islam
B. Shintoism
C. Confucianism
D. Buddhism
Which culture below believe in
gardens of nature and have their own
alters to perform rituals?
A. Confucianism
B. Shintoism
C. Islam
D. Buddhism
Which culture below does not stress
life after death?
A. Confucianism
B. Hinduism
C. Buddhism
D.Shintoism
Which culture below was founded by
a very important Chinese scholar?
A. Shintoism
B. Confucianism
C. Hinduism
D. Buddhism
Which culture below is “not” a religion
but a way of life?
A. Buddhism
B. Hinduism
C. Confucianism
D. Shintoism
Which culture below follow the “Golden
Rule of Behavior” and practice the “Five
Basic Relationships”?
A. Hinduism
B. Shintoism
C. Confucianism
D. Buddhism