Locations
What is a traditional story teller?
Griot
Oral History
Arabia is close to Northern Africa, so traders and merchants would travel and spread Islam along the way.
What was the first European country to come and take people as slaves?
Portugal
The region categorized by rainy temperatures, monkeys, and many trees.
Rainforest
What is a sailboat with a triangular sail?
Dhow
A group of people that descended from the same ancestor
Clan
The name of the greatest and richest African king who was able to spread Islam
Mansa Musa
Wives and mothers
The region categorized by spotted shrubs and trees, dry weather, and plenty of animals.
Savanna
What is the grassy plant that Europeans cultivated?
Sugarcane
The tropical grassland region.
Savanna
The term that is both a language and a culture.
Swahili
What region would monkeys and hippos be found in?
Rainforest
The region in which Islam and the Sahara is the most prevalent.
Northern Africa
The area of high and mostly flat land?
Plateau
The language spoken in the Eastern region of Africa.
Swahili
Islam is the biggest religion in Africa. What is the next?
Christianity
Why were African traders so eager to convert to Islam?
The area in which Christianity is the biggest and where European explorers landed.
Southern Africa
What was the gospel song sung by slaves?
Spirituals
A group of people from different generations but still in the same family.
Extended family
List the four regions of Africa, and tell me in what part of Africa it can be found.
ex. Tundra in the West...
Savanna in South and Central
Rainforest in the Center
Mediterranean in the East
List 3 of the 5 big empires and 3 things they traded.
Axum, Mali, Ghana, Songhai, Zimbabwe
Gold, Iron, Spices