Geography
Miscellaneous
Triangular Trade
West Africa
East Africa
100
Desert yearly rainfall total.
What is less than 10 inches of rainfall per year?
100
Term to describe traditional Religious beliefs.
What is Animism?
100
Traingular Trade (Definition)
What is trade where three regions are involved?
100
First west African empire.
What is Ghana?
100
Storytellers of the history, religion and culture of their society.
What are Griots or Griottes?
200
Rainforest rainfall total.
What is 75 inches per year?
200
Africans, like Native Americans, believed maintain a harmony with this.
What is maintaining a balance with the power of nature?
200
Fraction of Slaves that died during forced voyage to new world.
What is 1/3rd?
200
West African Kingdom/Empire ruled by Mansa Musa.
What is Mali?
200
Bantu based language of East Africa combined with Arabic.
What is Swahili?
300
Another name for a large waterfall.
What is a cataract?
300
Continuous geographic trench, approximately 3,700 miles in length.
What is the Great Rift Valley?
300
Part of Triangular trade where African Slaves were transported to the colonies.
What is the middle passage?
300
He started the kingdom of Songhai.
Who was Sunni Ali?
300
Trade Route that merchants used from coastal cities.
What is Indian Ocean?
400
Creates Mountains
What are tectonic Plates?
400
Line dividing the "uncivilzed world" between Spain and Portugal by the Pope in 1493.
What is the Line of Demarcation?
400
The duration of the Middle Passage?
What is 6 to 11 weeks (2 to 3 months)
400
An overloaded slave ship which crossed the Atlantic in 1781. Due to a navigational error, the ship missed its destination in the Caribbean and had to spend an extra three weeks at sea. Drinking water was growing short and sickness spread.
Approximately 131 African captives were thrown overboard and drowned because if they had died on board, the crew could not claim insurance money on the lost cargo.
What is the Zong?
400
Coastal trading centers/cities of East Africa.
List two of three cities.
What are Mogadishu, Zanzibar, and Mozambique?
500
Percentage of Africa that is a Plateau.
Legend: Black- 6,000 feet, red- 3,000, Light red- 600 feet, yellow- Sea level
What is 85 to 90 percent?
500
Describe what the map is depicting.
What is Desertification, the growth of the African deserts?
500
Describe the steps of the triangular trade.
(In order. From where to where and trading what).
What is step 1- Europe trades manufactured goods to Africa for Slaves.
What is step 2- European slave traders from Africa trading slaves to New World for Raw Materials.
What is step 3- Raw materials brought back to Europe to make manufactured goods to cycle through the triangle trade again.
500
Describe the type of event going on in this picture.
Songhai troops marching (by force) captured "POWs" from Africa's interior to the coast to be sold in European Slave Traders.
15 to 30 percent died during the march.
500
Referencing Catergory title, describe what is going on in this picture.
What is a Griottes telling a Historical story to children?