African Geography
This desert, the largest in the world, stretches across much of North Africa.
What is the Sahara?
What is Ghana?
This mineral was so valuable in West Africa that it was sometimes used as currency.
What is gold?
The city of Timbuktu was famous for this.
What is its university and scholarship?
The Bantu originally migrated from this region of Africa.
What is West Africa?
These two major rivers helped connect the interior of Africa and facilitate trade.
What are the Niger and the Nile?
He was the wealthy ruler of Mali who made a famous pilgrimage to Mecca.
Who is Mansa Musa?
This resource, essential for preserving food, was mined in Taghaza and traded across the Sahara.
What is salt?
Axum was one of the first African civilizations to adopt this religion BEFORE it adopted Islam.
What is Christianity?
A push factor for Bantu migration was this environmental challenge.
What is desertification?
The Great Rift Valley is a result of this natural process.
What is tectonic plate movement?
This ruler expanded the Songhai Empire and made Timbuktu a center of learning.
Who is Askia Muhammad?
The Swahili city-states along the East African coast were part of this larger trade network.
What is the Indian Ocean trade network?
This Great Zimbabwe structure was both a royal palace and a symbol of power.
What is the Great Enclosure?
The Bantu migration spread these two major skills across Africa.
What are ironworking and agriculture?
This East African empire controlled trade along the Red Sea and Indian Ocean.
What is Axum?
This powerful empire in Southern Africa built stone structures such as Great Zimbabwe.
What is Zimbabwe Empire?
The kingdom of Great Zimbabwe controlled trade of this precious metal.
What is gold?
Swahili is a blend of Bantu and this language.
What is Arabic?
The tsetse fly limited movement and trade in this type of African region.
What is the rainforest?
The climate of West Africa ranges from tropical rainforest to this dry grassland region.
What is the Sahel?
The leader of Kano who converted the kingdom to Islam in the 1350s.
Who is Ali Yaji?
In Wangara, traders followed this unusual rule when handling gold dust.
What is using only spoons (never fingers) to handle it?
Islamic traders brought this architectural feature to East African coastal cities.
What are flat-roofed buildings with gardens and porches?
One of the major effects of Bantu migration was the spread of this type of language.
What are Bantu languages?