State three important facts about the history of the Shona. (Answers will vary.)
What will be an ideal response?
• The Shona who live in present-day Zimbabwe, "are among the sixty million Bantu-speaking people who predominate in central and southern Africa."
• "The Shona [have] become a more decentralized, agricultural people."
• At the turn of the twentieth century English-speaking settlers imposed colonialism on the Shona area (former Rhodesia). As a result of this colonialism, many local people "came to doubt the [traditional] ways of their ancestors."
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a. satisfy the French appetite for knowledge. b. give exposure to new artists and architects. c. enable tourists to appreciate and understand art. d. demonstrate French cultural superiority.
Australian Aboriginals painted "contour maps" indicating food and water locations; these maps were then ____ after a ritual celebration.
a. hidden
b. preserved
c. destroyed
d. painted over