Lesson 1
This is the belief that natural objects have spirits.
What is animism?
This is the animal that made trade across the Sahara easier.
Founder of the kingdom of Mali.
Who is Sundiata?
This is a kente.
This means Zimbabwe.
What is stone houses?
An open grassland.
What is a Savannah?
This is the direction that main trade items moved.
What is north to south/south to north?
This was an important trading city of the Mali Empire.
What is Timbuktu?
This phrase (Talking doesn't fill the basket in the farm.) is an example of what.
What is a proverb?
These are crops that Bantu farmers grew.
What is beans, melons, and rice?
Grazing animals such as gazelles and oryx are common here.
What is the Sahel?
These items were commonly traded in the kingdom of Ghana.
What is cattle, honey, and wheat?
Emperor who expanded Mali and brought enormous wealth.
Who is Mansa Musa?
These materials were used to make sculptures.
What is wood, brass, clay, ivory, and stone?
Muslim merchants can to Africa to buy these goods.
What is coffee and copper?
These items were created out of iron by the Nok.
What is the hoe and iron tips for spears and arrows?
Who is Tunka Manin?
Muslim leader of Songhai who conquered Mali.
These were popular forms of visual art.
These two languages blended with Bantu to create Swahili.
What is Arabic and Persian?
This is why gold was kept secretive.
This group invaded Ghana in the late 1000s.
Songhai emperor who reestablished Timbuktu.
Who is Askia the Great?
A spoken record of past events.
What is oral history?
This was the blending of Christian beliefs and African customs.
What is Coptic Christianity?