Africa
What did the Sahara use to be?
An Ocean
What is Terra Cotta?
Fire-baked clay
Aksum’s location made it a major international what?
Trading Hub
The Arabs encountered Africans who spoke what languages?
Bantu
What borders the Mediterranean Sea?
The Northern part of Africa
The Nok people settled in what Country?
Nigeria
The geography of East Africa made it ideally suited for what?
Trade
Today, _____ is an official language of Tanzania and a common language among many East African people.
Swahili
What lies South of the Atlas Mountains?
The Sahara Desert
Mali was also fortunate because it had some very effective what?
Leaders
Aksum began around 500 B.C. in what is now called?
Ethiopia
The Swahili people also developed a political system based on independent _____
City-States
Beginning around 5300 B.C., what shifted southward?
Seasonal Rains
Songhai eventually surpassed Mali in what?
Size and Splendor
Arabic immigrants married local ______
Ruling Families
One of the richest and most powerful city-states in Africa was?
Kilwa
What, in the ancient world, was rare and precious but is common now?
Salt
Ghana’s kings made their money by doing what?
Taxing salt and other trade goods as they entered and departed Ghana
Around A.D. 250, a Persian prophet listed the four great empires in the world. What were these empires?
Rome, Persia, China, and Aksum.
To reinforce its control of the gold trade, Kilwa took over the port of ______
Sofala