Physical Features
More Geography
African Empires
Famous People
Culture
100
The main river of Egypt (it empties into the Mediterranean Sea).
What is the Nile?
100
This is the country at the southern tip of Africa.
What is South Africa?
100
This was the 1st of the great empires of West Africa.
What is Ghana?
100
These were the 1st people to cross the Sahara Desert?
Who are the Berbers?
100
This was the main religion of the leader's of Mali
What is Islam?
200
This is the largest desert in the world, it covers much of North Africa.
What is the Sahara?
200
This is the term for natural plant life.
What is vegetation?
200
The second of the West African Empires, and also the second largest.
What is Mali?
200
He was the greatest leader of Mali (and the worlds richest man).
Who is Mansa Musa
200
This is another name for spoken history, Africa has a great tradition of this.
What is the oral tradition?
300
This is the main river of all three of the Empires that we have studied in this unit (Ghana, Mali, and Songhai).
What is the Niger?
300
The large island nation off the east coast of Africa (it's where lemurs live).
What is Madagascar?
300
This was the last and the largest of the empires of West Africa.
What is Songhai?
300
This is the word for a king or a queen?
What is monarch?
300
A religious trip, all Muslims are supposed to take one to Mecca in their lifetime.
What is a pilgrimage?
400
Tropical grasslands.
What is a savanna?
400
There are two countries and the 5th largest river in Africa with this name.
What is Congo?
400
These minerals were the main sources of income for the empires that we studied in West Africa.
What are salt and gold?
400
Name one of the two great female leaders that we have studied in this unit.
Who is Dalia al-Kahina or Nzinga?
400
They brought camels to Africa, Originally camels are from Asia. Ever since they have been used to travel the Sahara Desert.
Who are the Romans?
500
The term for a country that has no coast.
What is landlocked?
500
This is the largest country in Africa.
What is Sudan?
500
This is the advantage that the Moroccan invaders had in their defeat of Songhai's warriors.
What is the use of guns and cannons?
500
He was the warrior-king who conquered Ghana, making Mali the most powerful empire in Africa. His name means "Lion Prince."
Who is Sandiata Keita?
500
This European country was the leader in the early slave trade.
What is Portugal?
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