SHS History · Year 1
Art and Technology in Pre-Colonial Ghana practice questions
The craft industries of pre-colonial Ghana -- iron-working, brass casting, leatherworking, cloth weaving and dyeing, gold mining, wood carving, bead making and pottery making -- their processes, and how art and technology expressed philosophical and religious ideas.
30 questions in this topic: 9 recall, 18 applying skills and concepts, 1 strategic thinking and 2 extended thinking. Every one carries a written explanation.
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- Question 1Skills & concepts
In pre-colonial iron-working, the final stage of the process, after the molten iron had cooled and solidified, involved the blacksmith
- adigging the laterite from shallow pits
- bconstructing the smelting furnace from clay
- cfanning the fire to increase its temperature
- dcollecting the hardened iron from the furnace to make tools and weapons
- Question 2Skills & concepts
Cloth weaving became a highly developed money-making occupation in pre-colonial Ghana, particularly in Northern territories, Asante (Bonwire/Adanwomase) and Eweland at
- aKumasi and Elmina
- bSalaga and Yendi
- cAgbozume/Agortime-Kpetoe
- dBegho and Bole
- Question 3Strategic thinking
In the early seventeenth century, coastal peoples, especially the people of Elmina, became particularly engaged in which bead-related activity involving beads brought into the country by Europeans?
- aPolishing and cleaning imported beads
- bMining the raw granite used for beads
- cExporting beads to the Trans-Saharan trade routes
- dMelting beads down to cast brass
- Question 4Recall
The traditional wood-carving process began with the identification and cutting of a suitable tree, and ended with the stage of
- ashaping
- bpolishing/smoothening
- ccutting the necessary piece from the wood
- didentifying rituals for the tree
- Question 5Skills & concepts
The gold extraction method that involved a miner using a shallow pan to scoop up riverbank sediments, then spinning the pan so lighter materials washed away and denser gold particles remained, was
- adigging
- bthe lost-wax technique
- cpanning
- dresist dyeing
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