Culture
What is the most important element of African culture?
the family
What was the original name of Ethiopia, before the Greeks changed it to Ethiopia
Aksum
The title of the king of Mali
Bonus: What does it mean?
Bonus: ruler
How did Islam spread to West Africa?
By Muslim traders
What do you call a large area of flat grasslands?
Savannah
Name the slave who introduced Coptic Christianity to the Ethiopians
Bonus: Name the Ethiopian king who became a Coptic Christian
Frumentius
Bonus: Ezana
Musa
Name for a group of traders that travel from oasis to oasis in order to survive the journey across the Sahara
caravan
What do we call the wide strip of land between the Sahara and the savannah?
The Sahel
The name for a group of people who can trace their ancestry back to a common relative
Bonus: What do you call two or more of these that share the same language, beliefs, and customs?
clan
Bonus: tribe
Lalibela
The name that Europeans gave to the region in Africa where gold was mined in abundance
Gold Coast
What religion believes that spirits exist in the rocks, mountains, trees, and even the air?
Animism
What clan worshipped only one god?
Bonus: Certain African stories often resemble what account in Genesis?
Kikuyu
Bonus: Creation
What was the significance of owning a lot of livestock?
a sign of wealth and prosperity
What material did Ethiopians forge into tools and use as money?
Bonus: Which of the following was not commonly traded in East African cities: Slaves, Precious stones, Olive oil, Ivory
Iron
Bonus: Olive oil
Name the three main Empires of West Africa in order from first to last.
Bonus: The leading city in West Africa that was later overrun by Moroccan forces
Ghana, Mali, Songhai
Bonus: Timbuktu
What common trade language was built on the Bantu language?
Swahili
Ethiopian legend says that Menelik is the offspring of the Queen of Sheba and what man?
King Solomon
Name two ways the camel is built for desert survival
Can store energy-rich fat in its hump
Can store enough liquid to survive 5-7 days without water
has nostrils that close and long eyelashes that keep out sand during sand storms
Ethiopia
Two West African trading items
cotton cloth, gold, iron
Through what port was Zimbabwe's gold transported?
Kilwa
Name the great city that was built near the Sabi River and whose name means "great house of stone"
Zimbabwe (Great Zimbabwe)