Kingdoms
The oldest kingdom, beginning in 3100 BCE.
What is Egypt?
A vital network connecting North Africa and the Mediterranean world with West Africa across the Sahara Desert
What is the Trans-Saharan Trade Network?
The longest river in the world.
What is the Nile?
The semi-divine warrior king who is considered the founder of the Wagadou Empire.
Who is Dinga Cisse?
The Kingdom of Ghana's greatest accomplishment was that it was the first kingdom to thrive thanks to its creation of the Trans-Saharan trade networks and being known as the________________.
What is the Empire of Gold?
This Kingdom's ruler Askia Muhammad brought forth the Golden age helping advance religion, technology and education in the great city of Timbuktu.
What is the kingdom of Songhai?
An amount of something left over when requirements have been met; an excess of production, more than what is needed.
What is a surplus?
Earth's largest hot desert, covering about 3.6 million square miles across North Africa
What is Sahara Desert?
The Malian King who traveled the world and discovered the Americas before Columbus ever did.
Mansa Abubakari II
Aksum developed massive Obelisks and stealeas. They were even one of the earliest Christian Kingdoms. They also developed the first writing system known as the ___________________.
What is the Ge'ez Script?
This kingdom thrived because Mansa Musa Keita traveled with an entourage with a surplus of gold, causing inflation everywhere he traveled.
What is the kingdom of Mali?
The Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai were rich in these two resources according to the Trans-Saharan Trade Network
What are Gold and Salt?
The body of water that all three Western Kingdoms lived near and helped them all thrive.
What is the Niger river?
The last active ruler of ancient Egypt before Roman rule.
Who is Cleopatra VII?
Kush ruled Egypt during the 25th Dynasty and developed their own unique script-writing system known as the __________________.
What is Meroitic script?
This kingdom had a centralized monarchy, which was considered a European-style of governance.
What is the Kingdom of Kongo?
The exchanging of goods or services for other goods or services without money.
What is Barter?
This major geographical feature runs through East Africa and is known for its deep valleys and lakes. It's also called the Giant Dip or the Earth's dimple.
What is the Great Rift Valley?
The infamous king who is traditionally credited with unifying Upper and Lower Egypt?
Who is King Narmer (Menes)?
Egypt built the first writing system known as hieroglyphics and built one of the 8 wonders of the world still standing today.
What is the Great Sphinx?
This kingdom conquered the kingdom of Kush.
What is the kingdom of Aksum?
The coastal trade network that the Great Zimbabwe was connected to.
What is the Swahili Coast and Indian Ocean trade network?
The geographical region of a vast grassland that was crucial for trade and settlement. You usually see zebras in this region.
What is Savanna?
This Ethiopian emperor led the successful resistance against Italian colonization.
Who is Emperor Menelik II?
This kingdom is the only kingdom and still stands as a country today that has not been colonized by Europeans or anyone else.
What is the Ethiopian Kingdom?