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ALL Lessons
100
This part of Africa is made up of tropical grasslands and receives a moderate amount of rainfall.
What is a savanna?
100
Which city enabled Mali and Songhai to gain control of the gold-salt trade in West Africa?
Timbuktu
100
These stone structures honored Axum kings by marking their burial tombs.
What is stele?
100
In West African society, who ranked just above traders in the social structure?
Who are kings and nobles?
100
These two African empires were big supporters of Islam.
What are the Mali and Songhai Empires?
200
Salt, gold, and camels were important parts of this economic pursuit in the Ghana Empire.
What is the Trans-Saharan trade in West Africa?
200
For this reason, people in Mali still revere, or highly regard, Sundiata.
He led a successful rebellion against Sumanguru and was considered a wise ruler, using an assembly of kings.
200
This culture developed along the coast of East Africa and was heavily influenced by trade across the Indian Ocean.
What is Swahili?
200
What do you call a strong connection based on extended family relationships?
What is kinship?
200
This East African king converted to Christianity.
Who is King Ezana?
300
These two rivers were important to West African civilizations.
What are the Niger and Senegal Rivers?
300
This West African ruler strengthened the influence of Islam by appointing Muslim judges and using Arabic as the language of government.
Who is Askia Muhammad?
300
Christianity became a permanent feature of Ethiopia thanks to this event.
What is the rise of the Zagwe dynasty?
300
How do we know that Africa has a strong oral tradition?
What are griots, the professional storytellers and historians of Ancient African societies?
300
Ghana rulers made sure that gold remained an important trade good by doing this.
What is controlling or regulating the gold supply (through taxation and ownership (mining) laws), keeping prices high?
400
These TWO factors helped the leaders of Ghana create a powerful empire.
What are ironworking technology and controlling the gold-salt trade?
400
Mansa Musa made Timbuktu a center of Muslim culture and scholarship after doing this.
During his hajj, he brought so much gold in his caravan that he attracted the attention of Muslim scholars, artists, and teachers.
400
Axum gained importance as trading kingdom in East Africa due to this.
What is its location between the Nile River and the Red Sea?/What is Axum's control of the Indian Ocean Trade?
400
The TWO common characteristics of most traditional African religions.
What are rituals/shrines and honoring ancestors?
400
Trade helped early Africans develop advanced societies because Africans were rich with this.
What are natural resources? (Africans could trade for items they needed, like salt!)
500
Name two reasons why Ghana declined as an empire.
What is overpopulation, food shortage, overdependence on trade, or invasions from the Almoravids (Muslim Berbers)?
500
The Songhai Empire ended in 1591 due to this reason.
What are Moroccan invaders armed with guns?
500
Before Axum grew powerful, there was another kingdom in the region that was once ruled by Egypt for hundreds of years before regaining independence.
What is Kush?
500
Finish the Mali proverb: "When an old man dies..."
"...it is as if a library has burned to the ground."
500
This group of people introduced Christianity to the citizens of Axum.
What are Greco-Roman merchants?