History

Question 1

What did San women use to dig up roots?

Answer 1

digging sticks

Question 2

For how long are San children breastfed

Answer 2

4 years

Question 3

the learning and understanding of the way of life of people who lived long ago by observing people who still live in a similar way today

Answer 3

ethnography

Question 4

Where can we find San people today?

Answer 4

In the Kalahari Desert (South Africa, Botswana and Namibia)

Question 5

What did the San make tools out of?

Answer 5

stone

Question 6

People who hunt wild animals and collect wild plants to eat

Answer 6

hunter-gatherers

Question 7

what was the jobs of the San men

Answer 7

they hunted for food

Question 8

what was the job of the San women?

Answer 8

They gathered wild honey, plants, nuts, roots and fruit

Question 9

the time, thousands of years ago, during which people made tools out of stone

Answer 9

the stone age

Question 10

people who have no fixed home and move from place to place

Answer 10

nomads

Question 11

List 4 main ways to describe the San

Answer 11

1. They were hunter-gatherers
2. They did not grow crops or keep animals
3. They tried not to damage the environment
4. They made tools from stone and bone

Question 12

How did The San avoid jealousy and fighting

Answer 12

They shared everything

Question 13

A plant that stops hunger and thirst

Answer 13

Hoodia

Question 14

A plant to stop stomache aches

Answer 14

Buchu

Question 15

A plant that the San used to poison their arrows

Answer 15

Bushman’s Poison

Question 16

a Plant used for snake bites, headaches and toothache

Answer 16

sickle bush roots

Question 17

What did the San use for hunting

Answer 17

bow and arrow

Question 18

what was the bow made from

Answer 18

straight, tough, elastic branch

Question 19

What was the bow string made from

Answer 19

rolled strips from the back muscles of a gemsbok

Question 20

What was the arrow made of

Answer 20

bone or stone

Question 21

where was the poison put on the arrow

Answer 21

behind the point

Question 22

Where did the deadliest poison that the San used for hunting come from

Answer 22

a small beetle

Question 23

lasting energy or strength

Answer 23

stamina

Question 24

What did the San call their god

Answer 24

Kaggen

Question 25

What did the San believe their god could turn into

Answer 25

an Eland

Question 26

how did the San meet their god

Answer 26

they would perform a trance dance at night around a fire and meet kaggen as an eland

Question 27

In the San religion, a person who entered the invisible world to ask Kaggen for help

Answer 27

Shaman

Question 28

a person who studies the objects that people of long ago left behind

Answer 28

archaeologist

Question 29

Colours that were used in San rock art

Answer 29

red, yellow, white and black

Question 30

How did the San make red, orange or purple paint?

Answer 30

heating iron that had rusted and grinding it to powder

Question 31

How did the San make the paint "hold together"

Answer 31

Eland's blood

Question 32

How did the San make white paint

Answer 32

from white clay

Question 33

Name the first 3 things you will see at the top of the South African Coat of Arms

Answer 33

The rising sun The secretary bird A protea

Question 34

What weapons are on the Coat of Arms

Answer 34

a spear and knobkierie

Question 35

What people are on the Coat of Arms

Answer 35

2 San figures

Question 36

what is in the middle of the coat of arms and 2 things that are on either side

Answer 36

A shield 2 ears of wheat 2 elephant tusks

Question 37

in what language is the motto on the coat of arms

Answer 37

San language Xan

Question 38

What does the motto on the coat of arms mean

Answer 38

Unity in diversity

Question 39

A section of rock art from the San people, called the _____________was found in _________ and placed in ___________

Answer 39

The Linton Rock art Panel Linton farm in Eastern Cape South African Museum in the Western Cape

Question 40

Who arrived in the south-west parts of southern Africa about 2000 years ago?

Answer 40

The Khoikhoi

Question 41

How were the Khoikhoi different to the San?

Answer 41

They kept herds of animals such as sheep, goats and cattle. They were called herders

Question 42

How were the Khoikhoi the same as the San

Answer 42

They were nomadic Men hunted for food Women gathered plant food They made tools from stone and bone

Question 43

a person who looks after livestock

Answer 43

pastoralist

Question 44

When did the Khoikhoi slaughter cattle

Answer 44

religious ceremonies, when children were born or when someone died

Question 45

Why did the Khoikhoi think the San were inferior to them

Answer 45

Because the San did not keep cattle

Question 46

Why did the San and Khoikhoi not get along?

Answer 46

They were in competition for game and the herds of wild game got smaller. Sometimes the San would steal cattle from the Khoikhoi.

Question 47

Why are some groups called the Khoisan

Answer 47

Many San men married khoikhoi women and had families

Question 48

The languages spoken by the first African farmers

Answer 48

Buntu