Geography and History
Empires
People and Outsiders
Places
100
a lowland area that receives little rain
rain shadow desert
100
Ghana could control all the trade of salt and gold because there were _____ mines to its south.
gold
100
Arabian merchants brought the religion of _____ to Ghana
Islam
100
Where was Songhai's center of Islamic faith and learning?
Timbuktu
200
Four ways of learning about people and their history other than written records are linguists, botany, archaeology, and _____.
oral history
200
What civilization did King Ezana influence by making Christianity its official religion?
Aksum
200
Traders were important to African because they helped spread these two things.
wealth and ideas
200
#5 on the map
Kalahari
300
Whose migration did linguists trade from the Benue River to southern Africa?
Bantu
300
Mansa Musa made a pilgrimage to Mecca because he was a devoted _____
Muslim
300
The Tuaregs' most valuable possession was the _____
Camel
300
The independent cities of eastern Africa's coast charged this common language
Swahili
400
The village _____ would tell stories to remind a village of its past.
griot
400
Who made Mali an empire by conquering Ghana and taking control of the gold and salt trade?
Sundiata Keita
400
Which African king was NOT a subject of African legend?
Mansa Musa
400
#1 on the map
Horn of Africa
500
an area with huge trees and vines and a large variety of wildlife
rainforest
500
What happened to the price of gold in the regions where Mansa Musa traveled?
the price of gold dropped
500
The Shona built zimbabwes out of _____
stone
500
The independent cities of eastern Africa's coast shared this common religion
Islam
600
Historians divide Africa's peoples into groups by common _____
language
600
Why was Morocco able to defeat Songhai?
guns, army was better equipped and trained
600
These groups of people were pushed out of their homes by the Bantu and also spoke click languages
San and Khoikhoi
600
#10 on the map
Timbuktu
700
Geographers often organize Africa by _____ to aid in studying its land and people.
regions
700
The city of _____ became an empire because Sunni Ali led the fight for its independence
Songhai
700
The international trade of African slaves became widespread in the 1600s because of the rise of European _____
colonies
700
In what two parts of Africa did Christianity spread through the efforts of European missionaries?
central and southern