Locating Places
This river is near where the Bantu people began their migration.
What is the Benue River?
This is African trading empire lasted from c. 100-1400.
What is Axum?
She was the Queen of a great empire called Saba or Sheba.
Who is Queen Makeda?
The name for an African storyteller.
What is a griot?
This physical feature covers the largest area of Africa.
What is a Savanna?
This river has rich soil that is good for growing crops and helped civilizations rise?
What is the Niger River?
A West African trading empire that taxed traders who wanted to pass through.
What is Ghana?
He was also known as the "Lion Prince."
Who is Sundiata Keita?
What is the Sahara?
This kingdom conquered what was left of the rapidly diminishing empire of Ghana.
What is Mali?
Songhai traded these two items.
What are salt and gold?
He was the leader of Songhai who stormed into Timbuktu and drove out the Berbers.
Who was Sunni Ali?
A sailboat that allowed Arab traders to sail to Africa.
What is a dhow?
Hot, steamy rainforests stretch along each side of this.
What is the equator?
This trading empire owed its strength to the Red Sea.
What is Axum?
This West African king built mosques and libraries.
Who was Mansa Musa?
Traders from Benin and Kongo traded slaves that were taken in war after the arrival of these people.
Who were the Europeans?
To gradually make less.
What is the definition of diminish?
What is the Great Rift Valley?
What are Mogadishu, Kilwa, Mombasa, and Zanzibar?
Zimbabwe stretched from this river to this ocean.
What is the Zambezi River to the Indian Ocean?
These two beliefs were shared by the Bantu people.
What is the belief in one supreme creator and a spirit world where ancestors live?
These 3 weapons were used by Songhai soldiers.
An area that has a mild climate and is good for growing crops.
What are the Mediterranean areas?