Geography
What is the second-largest continent?
What is Africa
What is it called when you grow so much food that you have extra?
What is a surplus
Ghana is known for what
What is either gold or salt
What two religions impacted East Africa?
What is Christianity and Islam
An area of high, flat land.
What is a plateau
What river runs through Africa, and is the longest in the world?
What is the Nile River
Who did the rain forest Kingdoms trade their extra food to?
Who is the empires in the savannas
To pass through Ghana, traders had to do what?
What is pay a tax
The Ethiopian capital that was a major trading point on the Red Sea.
What is Axum
An African story-teller.
What is a griot.
Broad grassland dotted with small trees and shrubs. Home to lions, elephants, and giraffes
What is a savanna
What did the kingdoms of the rain forest receive in exchange for the surplus of food?
What is copper, salt and leather
What Empire defeated Ghana and captured its capital in 1240
Who is Mali
Who did Axum fight for power in East Africa?
Who is Kush
African sailboats.
What is a Dhow
What imaginary line runs through the middle of the African continent, and is the reason why the climate zones of Africa are so different?
What is the Equator
What two kingdoms were located in the rain forest?
What is Kongo and Benin
Mansa Musa was the richest person in history due to his abundance of what?
What is gold
What was the other great trading city of southeastern Africa?
What is Zimbabwe
A nomadic trader in Africa.
What is a Berber
Name the largest desert in Africa.
(BONUS: name the other desert of Africa too)
What is the Sahara
(BONUS: What is the Kalahari)
Why was farming good in the rain forest?
What is because of their hot, wet climate.
Was recognized as one of the intellectual capitals of the Muslim world
What is Timbuktu
Trade items supplied by Zimbabwe
What is gold, copper and ivory
A group of traveling merchants is called what?
What is a caravan