European Exploration
Who is the most famous explorer of Africa?
(Bonus 100: What was the name of the American journalist who traveled to Africa to find him?)
Who is David Livingstone?
(Who is Henry Stanley?)
This city was known as being a center for learning.
What is Timbuktu?
This is Africa's highest mountain.
What is Mt. Kilimanjaro?
The name Phut means this.
What is "a bow"?
Africa was so mysterious to the Europeans that they gave it this name.
What is the "Dark Continent"?
This was the first European to explore Africa.
Who is James Bruce?
This kingdom was the home for a famous center of learning.
What is the Mali Kingdom?
This mountain range is found in Africa's northwest
What are the Atlas Mountains?
Before the Sahara was a desert, the land was inhabited by the family of this son of Ham.
Who is Phut?
What is the world's fourth largest island off the East coast of Africa?
What is Madagascar?
This man was a missionary to the people near the Kalahari Desert.
Who is Robert Moffat?
This kingdom is known as Africa's first and greatest Christian kingdom.
What is the Kingdom of Aksum?
This, Africa's largest waterfall, was known by the local people as the "smoke that thunders"
What is Victoria Falls?
This person is the first African Christian.
Who is the Ethiopian eunuch?
This European nation did much to explore and serve Africa.
What is Scotland?
Because of diseases like malaria, yellow fever, and sleeping sickness, Africa became known as this.
What is the "white man's grave"?
This ancient empire was found near the Niger River.
What is the Ghana empire?
This is the world's second largest river in the volume of water that it carries.
What is the Congo river?
This man was a great leader of the African church.
Who is Athanasius the Great?
These are the important two important aspects of David Livingstone's death.
(Bonus 100: How was David Livingstone found dead?)
What are that his heart was buried in Africa and that his body was buried in Westminster Abbey?
(He was found knelt beside his bed praying.)
Mungo Park explored this river.
What is the Niger River?
Name the three most famous southern African kingdoms.
What are the kingdom of the Kongo, the Zulu empire, and the Great Zimbabwe empire?
This isthmus was between Africa and Asia.
What is the isthmus of Suez?
This Greek slave from Ethiopia is credited for many wise stories using animals as the main characters.
Who is Aesop?
This man was the first black bishop that the Church of England had ever had.
Who is Samuel Crowther?