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

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