Nubia and the Land of Kush
Kingdom of Aksum
West, Central, and Southern Africa
Vocabulary
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Vocabulary 2
100
The capital city of the Kushite Kingdom
What is Meroe
100
Geographic location of Aksum
What is Horn of Africa
100
Main religious belief systems found in Africa
What is polytheism
100
The belief that everything possesses a soul
What is animism
100
The belief in many gods
What is polytheism
200
The region in which the Kush Kingdom was located.
What is Southern Egypt
200
Religion in Kingdom of Aksum
What is Christianity
200
The first iron-makers in Western Africa
Who are the Nok peoples
200
lively storytellers who passed on history
What is griots
200
Early writing that used symbols. It was first found in Ancient Egypt.
What are hieroglyphics
300
Element that was mined in nearby mountains and used to make tools and weapons.
What is iron ore
300
Aksum king that rose to power in 325 A.D.
Who is Ezana
300
3 results of the Bantu Migrations
1. Adopted cattle herding 2. Displaced hunter-gathers 3. Exchanged ideas and customs 4. Shared knowledge of ironmaking and agriculture 5. Spread their Bantu-based languages.
300
Movement of peoples from one region to another
What is migration
300
The river that people of Nubia lived along
What is the Nile
400
Kushite king that attacked Memphis, Egypt in 751 B.C.
Who is Piankhi
400
Type of farming that used leveled-off land to hold moisture better.
What is terrace farming
400
2 uses of iron
tools, weapons, trade
400
The process of heating material to separate its elements
What is smelting
400
Burial process of Nubian royalty
What is mummification?
500
The empire that invaded and conquered Egypt in 671 B.C.
What is the Assyrian Empire
500
The name of the written language used in the Kingdom of Aksum.
What is Ge'ez
500
Explain one of the primary causes for the migration of people in West, Central, and Southern Africa
1. Sahara Dessert dried up. 2. Rain forests don't support farming. 3. Grassy savannas cover over 40% of Africa (dry and rainy seasons).
500
City on the Red Sea; main trading port for Aksum
What is Adulis
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