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This Muslim man explored Ancient Ghana and wrote a famous description of the empire.
Who is Al-Bakri?
100
This was the god selected by Akhenaten as the supreme deity of his monotheistic Egypt.
Who is Re (Ra)?
100
This culture was located in Benin, Nigeria and was one of the first Iron Age civilizations in Africa outside of the Nile Valley.
What is the Nok Culture?
100
Kumbi Saleh was the capital of this kingdom
What is Ancient Ghana?
100
The longest river in Africa
What is the Nile?
200
This man founded Islam in Arabia in the 7th Century.
Who is Mohammad?
200
This was one of the most important jobs to the Ancient Egyptians.
What is a scribe?
200
The Mandinka people established this Kingdom
What is Mali?
200
The kingdom of the Kushites was founded by these people
Who are the Nubians?
200
This is the highest mountain in East Africa
What is Mt Kilimanjaro?
300
This was the first Pharaoh to unify Upper and Lower Egypt
Who is Narmer?
300
This form of writing, created by the Egyptians, was one of the first developed and was not decipherable until the discovery of the Rosetta Stone
What are Hieroglyphics?
300
These people overran Ancient Ghana and paved the way for the emergence of the Mali Empire
Who are the Almoravids?
300
This Kingdom, under the rule of King Ezana, adopted Christianity in the 4th Century.
What is Axum (Ethiopia)?
300
This Biblical Queen is said to have been ancestress to the Kings of Ethiopia.
Who is the Queen of Sheba?
400
This man is one of the biggest proponents of an Ancient African presence in the Americas.
Who is Ivan van Sertima?
400
These people, who came from Macedonia with Alexander the Great, took control of Egypt in 332 BC and established their own dynasty.
Who are the Greeks?
400
The trans-Saharan trade was revolutionized by the implementation of this animal
What is the camel?
400
This kingdom was the first great Islamic kingdom in Africa
What is Mali?
400
This city was a Phoenician trading post on the North African coast that became one of the greatest cities in the ancient world.
What is Carthage?
500
This man was a prime minister of Ancient Egypt and was the architect behind the Step Pyramid
Who is Imhotep?
500
These people invaded and conquered Egypt in 1517 (16th Century).
Who are the Ottoman Turks?
500
This man made the Empire of Songhay great and led a coup d'etat against its previous leader, Sunni Baru.
Who is Askia Mohammad I?
500
The University of Sankore was established in Timbuktu during the reign of Mansa Musa in this kingdom
What is the kingdom of Mali?
500
The holy book of Islam
What is the Koran?
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