Vocabulary
What term describes people who move from place to place in search of food and water?
What is nomadic?
What are hunter-gathers?
Which West African empire was ruled by Mansa Musa?
What is Mali?
Which wealthy ruler of Mali completed a famous hajj in 1324?
What is Mansa Musa?
Africa is the ______-largest continent in the world.
What is second largest?
What term describes the blending of different religious traditions or beliefs?
What is syncretism?
Which African empire became the first African society to adopt Christianity?
What is Aksum?
Which ruler converted Aksum to Christianity?
Who is King Ezana?
Name the enormous desert located across northern Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert
This term refers to people who preserve and pass down a community’s history, traditions, and cultural practices through storytelling and music.
What are griots?
Which West African empire was the last and largest of the Sudanic empires?
What is Songhai?
Which ruler of Kongo, also known as Afonso I, converted to Roman Catholicism and later wrote to the Portuguese king?
Who is King Nzinga?
What West African city became famous for its book trade, university, and learning community?
What is Timbuktu?
This was a pilgrimage to Mecca.
What is a hajj?
Which West Central African kingdom developed its own distinct form of African Catholicism after voluntarily converting to Christianity?
What is the Kongo?
Which Queen Mother of Benin became the first iyoba and later became an iconic symbol of Black women’s leadership?
This West African society became known as one of the earliest iron-working cultures in the region and is famous for its terracotta sculptures.
What is the Nok society?
This term refers to the first large-scale migration of Bantu-speaking peoples across Africa between about 1500 BCE and 500 CE.
What is Bantu Migration?
Which southern African kingdom became wealthy through gold, ivory, and cattle and constructed massive stone wall structures?
What is Great Zimbabwe?
Which African queen fought approximately 30 years of guerrilla warfare against Portugal while ruling Ndongo-Matamba?
Who is Queen Njinga?
These three bodies of water helped connect African societies to trade networks beyond the continent.
What are the Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea, and Indian Ocean?