🏺 Ancient Civilizations
This river supported ancient Egyptian civilization.
What is the Nile River?
This continent is considered the birthplace of humanity.
What is Africa?
This empire became wealthy by taxing gold, salt, and other trade.
What is Ghana?
This person preserved history and genealogy through oral tradition.
What is a griot?
I ruled Benin.
Who is the Oba?
This was the title of ancient Egyptian rulers.
What is a pharaoh?
Fossil evidence AND this type of evidence support Africa as the birthplace of humanity.
What is genetic evidence?
These animals helped increase trans-Saharan trade because they could travel long distances with little water.
What are camels?
This family system passes rank or property through the mother's family line.
What is matrilineal?
I conquered Egypt and was a king of Kush.
Who is Piankhy?
This civilization was located in Nubia, south of Egypt.
What is Kush?
This model says modern humans developed in Africa and later migrated to other regions.
What is the Out-of-Africa model?
This leader founded Mali after defeating the Sosso.
Who is Sundiata?
This family system passes rank or property through the father's family line.
What is patrilineal?
I built the largest western Sudanese empire.
Who is Sunni Ali?
This later center of Kush became known for ironworking and trade.
What is Meroe?
This model argues that modern humans developed across several regions with continued interaction among populations.
What is the multiregional model?
This city became a center of trade AND Islamic learning.
What is Timbuktu?
Drums, complex rhythms, dance, and this musical pattern supported community and religious life.
What is call-and-response?
I centralized Songhai's administration, collected taxes, regulated trade, and promoted Islam.
Who is Askia Muhammad?
Located near the Red Sea in present-day Ethiopia, this became an early Christian kingdom.
What is Axum?
Put these in the correct order: civilization, agriculture, hunting and gathering, specialization, settled villages.
What is hunting and gathering → agriculture → settled villages → specialization → civilization?
This ruler displayed Mali's wealth and Islamic connections during his pilgrimage to Mecca.
Who is Mansa Musa?
Name ONE type of literature listed on your study guide besides griot histories.
What are work songs, lullabies, dirges, satire, or trickster tales?
We were West African communities that were often stateless and governed through families and village elders.
Who are the Igbo?