Religion
A person that practices the Islam religion
What is a Muslim?
The 4 major empires of Ancient Africa
What is Aksum, Ghana, Kush, and Zimbawe
The 2 most important items traded
What is Gold and Salt?
A person that teaches society about the past and customs of their culture
What is a griot?
Examples of art made by African Cultures
What is masks, statues, baskets, pottery, tapestries, paintings?
The acceptance of what language was brought through North Africa
What is Arabic language?
Major African river as a source for water?
What is the Congo River?
This item made food last longer and gave it more flavor
What is salt?
The griot’s main job was to
What is singing the praise of the people of Mali?
A religious expert of a tribe would often work with the gods and spirits of ancestors to help heal people, predict the future (prophecies), work as a priest, and even give advice to tribal leaders and kings.
The combination of Arabic and African languages created
What is Kiswahili or Swahili?
The success that some empires had over the other
What is how much water they receive a year and food around them?
Animal that lasted longer in the desert than horses or cattle
What is a camel?
A way by which people pass down stories—by word of mouth or from person to person
What is Oral Tradition?
Celebration is happy, not sad and worshipping the person's soul in a rite of passage
What is the ritual of death? or What are ways that death is remembered?
Spread of Islam and camels started
What is Trans-Saharan Trade?
African people wore this type of clothing no matter what climate they lived in
What are long sleeves and pants? Some were heavy others were light
This made it harder to communicate with other regions in Africa
What is language and religion?
Large groups of traders traveling a far distance
What is Caravan?
An item that had special properties or powers. These were often seen as charms to help, or hurt people, or considered “medicines” or protections for certain things, such as a hunter wearing the teeth of a lion or crocodile to keep safe from wild beasts.
What is a talisman?
Combining education, a sense of brotherhood, the community, and caring for the less fortunate
What did Muslims bring into the Northern part of Africa?
The 4 major climates of Africa
What is rainforest, desert, savannah, Mediterranean?
Other than physical or material items traded between societies
What are slaves, customs, religion, and culture?
Ancient Africans and modern Africans do this in order to have fresh clean water
What is carry water long distances in buckets on their heads?
The belief that all things- living, non-living, or dead- had a spirit. It was also believed that spirits were the cause of things like rain, wind, fires, and natural disasters.
What is animism?