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100

Became a very adopted and practiced religion throughout Africa.

What is Christianity?

100

In West and Central African societies, _________ played many roles, including spiritual leaders, political advisors, market traders, educators, and agriculturalists

What is women?

100

European country that initiated the trade of enslaved Africans, and turned islands on Africa’s Atlantic coast into large-scale plantation camps

What is Portugal?

100

Trade cities in the Swahili coast traded raw materials in exchange for finished goods with other countries around the ___________ Ocean

What is the Indian Ocean?

100

This kingdom was involved in the trans-Saharan gold trade and was known for its vast wealth.

What is Mali?

200

An early African society that became the first African society to adopt Christianity as their religion.

What is The Aksumite Empire?

200

A language that came into existence after 1000 C.E. as the direct result of trade between Bantu and Arabic speakers on Africa’s eastern coast.

What is Swahili?

200

The focus of early government and political structures in Sub-Saharan Africa

What is Kinship (family)?

200

The longest river in Africa is...

What is the Nile?

200

 The Catalan Atlas revealed ____________ about Mali

What is the wealth and influence of the ruler Mansa Musa and the Mali Kingdom?

300

Shrines to ancestors and divine spirits that include icons of Catholic saints and local African traditions

What is evidence of syncretism between African traditional religions and Christianity?

300

An example of African architecture that served the purpose of protecting the rulers and nobility of the society?

The walls of Great Zimbabwe

300

An event in Mali’s history that drew the attention of Spanish cartographers, leading to the creation of the Catalan Atlas.

What is Mansa Musa’s journey to Mecca with a caravan of 60,000 soldiers? 

300

The geographic location of the Swahili City-States helped foster international trade by...

What is its coastal location helped link Africa’s interior to Arab, Persian, Indian, and Chinese trading communities?

300

Kingdom of Mali's most important city; a major hub for trade in gold, the enslaved, and salt.

What is Timbuktu?

400

In African societies, the ___________ were prestigious historians, storytellers, and musicians who maintained and shared a community’s history, traditions, and cultural practices.

What is griots?

400

 Queen Njinga was known for...

What is fighting against the Portuguese to stop European colonization and control the slave trade?

400

African American Studies confirms this about early African societies.

What is they were globally connected complex societies before the Atlantic slave trade?

400

Africa is the __________ largest continent in the world?

What is the second?

400

An early African society that was the source of Egypt’s gold and luxury trade items that created conflict between the two societies.

What is the Nubia Kingdom?

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