Early Civilizations
Great Kingdoms and Empires
African Legacy and Global Impact
African Geography
Culture, Religion, Society
100
Often called the "Gift of the Nile," this civilization is one of the world's oldest and most studied.
What is Ancient Egypt?
100
This West African empire, famous for its wealth in gold and salt, reached its peak under Mansa Musa in the 14th century.
What is Mali?
100
The field of study that reclaims and centers African history and contributions to world civilization, countering Eurocentric narratives, is broadly called this.
What is African American Studies?
100
Africa is the world's ___ largest continent.
What is second?
100
Mansa Musa's famous 1324 pilgrimage to Mecca is said to have caused massive inflation across North Africa and the Middle East because he distributed so much of this.
What is gold?
200
This early African civilization was well-known for developing its own currency, which it needed for its well-connected trade networks that included the Roman Empire and India.
What is Aksum or Aksumite Empire?
200
The city of Timbuktu was a renowned center of Islamic scholarship and trade under this West African empire, which succeeded Mali.
What is the Songhai Empire?
200
During the Black Campus Movement, hundreds of thousands of Black students as well as Latino, Asian, and white supporters, led protests at over 1,000 colleges demanding greater access to do this.
What is to study black history?
200
The world's longest river, it flows through northeastern Africa and was central to ancient Egyptian civilization.
What is the Nile River?
200
The Kingdom of Kongo developed a relationship with Portugal and converted to this religion.
What is Roman Catholicism?
300
This kingdom, located south of Egypt, was one of ancient Africa's most powerful civilizations and even ruled Egypt as the 25th Dynasty.
What is Nubia or Kush?
300
This early West African empire, from roughly 300–1100 CE, is considered the first major empire in the region and grew wealthy controlling trans-Saharan trade in gold and salt.
What is the Ghana Empire?
300
The University of Sankore, one of the world's earliest universities, was located in this legendary city and held hundreds of thousands of manuscripts.
What is Timbuktu?
300
This map represents the movement of this group of people.
What is the Bantu?
300
This West African oral historian, considered a living library of history, genealogy, and culture, played a central role in preserving and transmitting African civilizations' histories.
What is a griot?
400
This society, in present-day Nigeria, is one of the earliest ironworking societies, best known for their pottery and terracotta sculptures.
What is Nok?
400
This East African coastal civilization, built by Bantu-speaking peoples, thrived on Indian Ocean trade and left behind massive stone structures, including a great walled city, pictured here.
What is Great Zimbabwe?
400
In the late 15th century, trade between West African kingdoms and Portugal grew steadily, bypassing the trans-Saharan trade routes. African kingdoms increased their wealth and power through this trade, which was common in hierarchical West African societies.
What is the slave trade or slaves?
400
Africa's proximity to the Mediterranean Sea, Indian Ocean, and this body of water supported the emergence of early societies and fostered connections beyond the continent.
What is the Red Sea?
400
About this percentage of enslaved Africans who arrived in North America came from either Muslim or Christian societies in Africa.
What is 50% or 25% of each?
500
This society became the first in Africa to adopt Christianity and have its own developed script of Ge'ez.
What is Aksum or the Aksumite Empire?
500
This source details the wealth and influence of the ruler Mansa Musa and the Mali Empire based on the perspective of a cartographer from Spain.
What is the Catalan Atlas?
500
The Chafariz d’El-Rey illustrates the substantial presence of Africans and the range of roles they played in urban Iberian port cities like this one where they made up 20% of the population.
What is Lisbon?
500
Africa's varied landscape is made up of multiple climate zones, including tropical rainforests, Sahel, Mediterranean and these (two - must get both).
What are desert and grasslands?
500
This term means the blending of diverse religious beliefs, practices, and philosophies into a new or modified system, such as Louisiana Voodoo.
What is religious syncretism?