Geography
This river flowed through the center of each of the three West-African Empires, allowing for trade and flourishing.
What is the Niger River.
What is Christianity.
Founder of the Empire of Mali around 1250 AD.
Who is Sundiata.
British Parliament abolished the slave trade in this year.
What is 1807.
All of Africa below the Sahara Desert is called this.
What is Sub Saharan Africa.
Most of North Africa is follows this religion.
What is Islam.
True or False
Disney's film The Lion King was loosely based off of the ruler of Mali, "Sundiata".
What is True.
These items were sent from Europe to Africa in the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade.
What is Manufactured Goods.
This is the longest river in Africa and even in the entire world.
What is the Nile River.
True or False
There is a positive relationship between calories consumed and higher literacy rates.
What is False.
This was considered the best location to control trade and where many of the African Empires were located.
What is the Niger River.
Other term used to describe the practice of trading slaves across the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Triangular Slave Trade.
True or False
Africa has many different climate zones throughout different regions.
What is True.
True or False
There is a positive relationship between calories consumed (up to an undefined point) and greater life expectancy.
What is True.
King Sundiata relied on this part of his empire to expand his territory.
What is his military.
What is the Middle Passage.
Climate zone in Africa with large grasslands and few trees.
What is Savannah.
A spoken record of events past down through generations in cultures that lacked a system of writing.
What is Oral Tradition.
To trade in one of the West-African Empires, people would travel from this great rainforest in central Africa.
What is the Congo Rainforest.
The inhumane conditions for the slaves on the ships traveling across the Atlantic were largely driven by this.
What is (profit or money or greed)
Large desert in Southern Africa.
What is the Kalahari Desert.
A traditional African storyteller.
What is a Griot.
The earliest empire (900 AD) of the three that we discussed which were located around the Niger River.
What is the Empire of Ghana.
These items were sent from the Americas to Europe in the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade.
What is Raw Materials.
A sea separating Africa from the Arabian Peninsula.
What is the Red Sea.
Large extended family group common in Sub-Saharan Africa.
What is Kinship.
The empire of Mali and empire of Ghana were based on and prospered because of these two economic activities.
What is Trade & Agriculture.
True or False
The majority of the population in Central Africa are lighter in skin tone compared to the more northern and southern parts of Africa where they are darker in skin tone.
What is False.
What is the Congo Rainforest.
Wise sayings passed down in a culture.
What is a Proverb.
This practice by the Great Zimbabwe Empire led to soil depletion and famine.
What is over-farming.
The majority of slaves that were brought by Europeans to the Americas were from this region of Africa.
What is the Niger-Congo Region.
Built in 1896 to allow large ships to pass from the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea.
What is the Suez Canal.
This mineral which was worth its weight in gold was brought across the Saharan Desert from the Mediterranean Sea.
What is Salt.
Currency used by the Kongo Kingdom that the Portuguese did not want.
What is seashells.
This was the first European nation to trade with Africa.
Who are Portugal.
Narrow strait that connect the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Strait of Gibralter.
A dialect of English spoken by African Americans, which contains many language structures of the native African language.
Name the three West African Empires we discussed in this unit.
What are the Mali, Ghana, and Songhai Empires.
Give one difference in language structure between English & Swahili.
(Examples: In Swahili consonants rarely touch whereas in English they do, In English theres a greater usage of the letter "r" whereas in Swahili there's not, In Swahili words normally end in a vowel whereas in English they do not.)