People
He was the most powerful of the rulers of Mali and considered to possibly be the richest person to ever live
Who is Mansa Musa?
This Tanzanian volcano is the highest point in Africa.
What is Mt. Kilimanjaro?
These are scholars who study languages and how they relate to each other.
What are linguists?
This is the cosmopolitan city that was once a major commercial and cultural center of the Songhai Empire.
What is Timbuktu?
He is the president who appears on the current half dollar coin.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
He was the leader who built the Songhai Kingdom into a powerful empire before it declined and ended after his death in 1538.
Who is Mohammed Askia?
This is Africa’s largest lake and is also the source of the Nile River.
What is Lake Victoria?
This is the tracing of ancestry and inherited property through mothers rather than fathers.
What is matrilinial?
This is the distinctive kingdom in the upper Nile that shared some traits with Egypt, but was a distinct culture that impacted later sub-Saharan civilizations.
What is Kush?
He was the only president from the state of Georgia.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
He was thepowerful, militaristic leader in the region that is now Ethiopia who converted to Christianity.
Who is King Ezana?
This large, deep lake in the Great Rift Valley holds 16% of the world’s freshwater supply.
What is Lake Tanganika?
These are the dry grasslands south of the Sahara Desert in Africa that are dotted with thorny bushes and few trees.
What is the savanna?
This was the stone fortress city that became the center of the Shona Empire.
What is the Great Zimbabwe?
He was the only president to never marry.
Who is James Buchanan?
He was the rebel leader who took advantage of the weakening Mali Empire in 1400’s who captured Timbuktu and established the powerful Songhai Kingdom centered at the city of Gao on the Niger River.
Who is Sonni Ali?
This coastal desert in southwestern Africa is one of the driest places on earth despite bordering the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Namib Desert?
These are the highly trained speakers and entertainers used to keep oral records of their African societies’ important events and achievements.
What are griots?
This was one of the earliest important Swahili trading centers along the Indian Ocean coast located on the Horn of Africa in what is today Somalia.
What is Mogadishu?
He was the first president to be the son of a former president.
Who is John Quincy Adams?
He was the most powerful of the Ghanaian rulers who ruled around A.D. 1067 and commanded an army of 200,000 bow-equipped warriors.
Who is Tunka Manin?
This shrub and tree-covered semi-arid desert located mostly in Botswana is known for its abundance of wildlife.
What is the Kalahari Desert?
This is the term for the semi-arid band along the southern edge of the Sahara Desert where agriculture is possible, but is also prone to long-term droughts.
What is the Sahel?
This kingdom, located in modern-day Ethiopia, overtook Kush as the region’s leader in the trade of ivory and gold.
What is Aksum?
This president had a bowling alley built in the White House.
Who is Richard Nixon?