Key Skills
Supporting your argument, backing it up, pointing to relevant or important facts and details.
What is evidence?
Five major climate zones of Africa
What are the desert, Mediterranean, Savanna Grasslands, Semiarid, and Tropical Rainforests?
The first African society to adopt Christianity
What is Aksum?
Kinship, in (most) West African societies is based off of this lineage
What is matrilineal or mother's bloodline?
Bodies of water, such as oceans, seas, and rivers, affected this essential human interaction in Africa
What is trade?
The background, details, and prior information needed to fully understand something.
What is context?
Five Major Rivers of Africa
What are the Congo, Nile, Niger, Orange, and Zambezi Rivers?
Complex societies rose up around this geographical feature of Africa.
What is the Nile River?
This leader of the kingdoms of Ndongo and Matamba led a 30 year long war against the Portuguese and offered sanctuary to those who escaped Portuguese enslavement
Who is Queen Nzinga or Njinga?
These trading city-states were known for their lucrative trade with South and East Asia until the Portuguese invaded and conquered this region, whose name comes from the Arabic word sawahil.
What are the Swahili Coast City States?
Reviewing two different things, time periods, periods, etc. to answer a question or prompt.
What is "compare and contrast?"
Variations in climate led to the forceful trade between people of different climate zones such as the deserts and savannas, for what vital resources?
Food and water (salt is accepted)
This Kingdom made a deal with the Portuguese that exchanged military assistance for access to enslaved people, leading to the growth of the international slave trade?
What is Kongo?
This powerful 16th-century queen mother of the Benin Empire, known for her role in advising and supporting her son in ruling, is also celebrated for her military leadership and her cultural contributions, including an ivory mask.
Who is Queen Idia?
This west African kingdom was well known by the Middle East and Europe for it's strategic trade hub locations near gold mines, was founded by the Soninke people, and whose name means warrior.
What is Ghana?
Events, the results of those events, and the reasons those events happened.
What is cause and effect?
This ancient African society was known for their artistic contributions such as realistic terracotta sculptures of people and animals, as well as their pottery which displayed their complexity as a society
What is the Nok society?
Used as a tomb for the pharaohs, this wonder of the world was stolen in the first Despicable Me movie.
What are the Pyramids of Giza?
African rulers often visited these Iberian countries for diplomatic, educational, and religious purposes, whereas enslaved Africans served in roles ranging from domestic labor to boatmen, guards, entertainers, vendors, and knights.
What are Spain and Portugal?
These two sought-after commodities were the most valuable goods in the trans-Saharan trade
What are Gold and Salt?
Making connections to think logically and support a conclusion.
What is reasoning?
Located on the second largest continent, this river that passes through four countries was the location of the Ghana, Mali, and Songhai Empires.
What is the Niger River?
This group of people developed the language that is the base for hundred of languages who share the same namesake
This leader, who is referred to as the Lion of Mali and is said to have had magical powers, is considered to be the founder of the Empire of Mali, and is the main character of a famous Malian epic.
Who is Sundiata?
For this reason, the Portuguese and other European powers increased the slave trade and the number of people they were taking from Africa to the Americas.
What is plantation agriculture?