African Geography
This is the longest river in Africa.
What is the Nile River?
This was a North African commodity along with gold and slaves.
What is salt?
This man was known to be the richest man in history.
Who is Mansa Musa?
This is the oldest of the Sahelian Empires.
What is the Kingdom of Ghana?
The highest peak in Africa.
What is Mt. Kilimanjaro?
These trains of camels were used for travel and trade across the Sahara Desert.
What are caravans?
This river is the largest in West Africa and third largest in the continent.
What is the Niger River?
Sahelian kings achieved much of their wealth through taxation and the mining of this precious metal.
What is gold?
This is the largest lake in Africa.
What is Lake Victoria?
This ethnic group was the first to introduce Islam to Africa.
Who are the Arabs?
This farming system allowed domesticated animals to roam for food and groups like the Fulani to travel from place to place.
What is pastoralism?
The last of the Sahelian Empires.
What is the Songhai Empire?
This region divides the Sahara Desert and Sub-Saharan Africa.
What is the Sahel region?
This desert was home to the Kingdom of Kush.
What is the Nubian Desert?
This is one of the largest ethnic groups in Nigeria along with Hausa and Igbo.
What is Yoruba?
Mansa Musa made Mali famous by taking a pilgrimage to this holy city.
What is Mecca?
This mountain range stretches across Northwest Africa.
What are the Atlas Mountains?
This sea is located right above North Africa.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
These talented storytellers were responsible for preserving the history of Africa through oral tradition before books were introduced.
What is a griot?
The founder of the Mali Empire.
Who was Sundiata Keita?