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Chapter 2- Nigerian Peoples Culture And The Pre-Colonial Firms
- What is the geography of Nigeria?
Answer: Lat4°N – 14°N, Lon.3°E – 15°E - What are the boundaries (land wall) of Nigeria?
Answer: Atlantic ocean (south), Cameroon (east), Benin republic (west), Chad (north east), Niger republic (north) - Nigeria covers an area of ____________________
Answer: 913,073 square kilometers - The two large physical features that affected its history are _________________ and _____________________
Answer: Sahara desert (north), Atlantic ocean (south) - Nigeria became a single entity in _____________________
Answer: 1914 - The story of Nigeria was history of various tribes until_____________
Answer: 1800. - Ethnic groups that belong to the coastal regions?
Answer: Awon, Urhobo, Ijaw, Itsekiri, Kalabari, Ogoni. - ”””””””””””””””””””””” first belts
Answer: Edo, Igbo, Yoruba. - ””””””””””””””””””””” savanah regions
Answer: Kano. - Most communities color and developed as a result of _____________________
Answer: Migration and conquest. - Nigeria lies wholly within the ____________________
Answer: Tropics. - The two well marked seasons in Nigeria are?
Answer: wet and dry seasons. - Nigerian vegetation distribution is divided into _________________ and simply reduced to __________________
Answer: 5,2 (forest and savannah) - The leaders of dynastic ancestors were mainly ___________________
Answer: Princes - Where do the hausa people originate from?
Answer: Baghdad - Yoruba land was founded from?
Answer: Ile-Ife - Who was the first king of Yoruba land?
Answer: Oduduwa or Oodua - Yoruba states are divided into __________________ and __________________
Answer: Mega states, mini states and communities - Yoruba practiced ________________ system of government
Answer: Constitutional monarchy - The seven principal chiefs are also known as_______________________
Answer: Kingmakers - The supreme being of Yoruba land is__________________
Answer: Olodumare - Who is Olodumare’s deputy?
Answer: Orisa-nla or Obatala - ________________ controls matter related to wisdom and knowledge?
Answer: Orunmila or Ifa - _________________ controls from war and chase?
Answer: Ogun - ________________ is the being of mischief?
Answer: Esu - ________________ is symbolized as stone?
Answer: Esu - Sanyu is the being of ______________ and _______________ and also _______________
Answer: Thunder and lightening, fourth king Alafin - Spoon shows _________________
Answer: Wrath of God - _______________ is the largest linguistic group in Africa?
Answer: Hausas - The hausas are found mostly in __________________
Answer: Northern Nigeria and Cameroon - _______________ was the first Hausa state?
Answer: Duara - Who is a notable scholar in the history of the Hausa state formation?
Answer: Dr Henry Barth - Spirit in Hausa is __________________
Answer: Iskoki - The belief of spirits in Hausa is called?
Answer: Bori - Hausa spirits live in a world called?
Answer: Jangari - Anyanwu means _________________
Answer: Sun - Agbala means __________________
Answer: Fertility and all being that inhabits it - Okikie means ________________
Answer: Power - The igbo practice what system of politics?
Answer: Direct democracy - Umunna means _______________
Answer: Children of the same father - The Nupe today lived around the towns _____________, ______________ and ________________
Answer: Bida, Mokwa and Jebba - The Nupe practiced what system of government?
Answer: Centralized system - Who is the cultural hero and mythical founder of the Nupe kingdom?
Answer: Isoede and Edegi - The Niger-Delta covers an area of __________________
Answer: 2800050/ km / migration - When did it become illegal to refer to anyone as a slave?
Answer: 1910 - What were the major articles of trade in the pre-slave period of the efiks?
Answer: Foodstuffs - In Calabar, trade was in the hands of _______________
Answer: Duke, Local potentates and private merchants
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