Ancient Societies
The first African society to adopt Christianity
What is Aksum; under the leadership of King Ezana
Five major climate zones of Africa
What is the desert, Mediterranean, Savanna Grasslands, Semiarid, and Tropical Rainforests.
This state banned AP African American Studies.
What is Florida?
The strength of the Swahili Coast
trading states garnered the attention of
this European country who invaded major
city-states and established settlements
in the 16th century to control Indian
Ocean trade
Who are the Portuguese?
Complex societies rose up around this geographical feature of Africa.
What is the Nile River?
Five Major Rivers of Africa
What is Congo, Nile, Niger, orange, and Zambezi Rivers
The movement and dispersion of African people across the world.
What is the African Diaspora?
These two sought after commodities were the most valuable goods in the trans-Saharan trade
These people are known for their writing system, pottery, and trade in gold, ivory, and incense.
What is Ancient Nubia/Kush?
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)
AP African American Studies is the direct result of what social movement?
What is the Black Campus Movement?
The start of the slave trade in West and Central Africa was fueled by the Portuguese's development of this labor system on the Atlantic islands of Sao Tome and Cabo Verde
Plantation system
The first Kingdom to sustain a complex relationship with Portugal.
What is the Wolof Empire in modern Senegal
Bodies of water, such as oceans, seas, and rivers, affected this essential human interaction in Africa
What is trade?
This time period (decades) was the beginning of African American Studies as a college course.
What is 1960s to 1970s
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? (Portuguese realized how valuable sugar was so they began exporting and trading more Africans.)
What is the Epic of Sunjata?
The transition zone between the savannas in the Sudan and the Saharan Desert
What is Sahel/semiarid?
The first Black Studies National Conference was held in this year.
What is 1975?
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 is Spain and Portugal?