The African Landscape
The number of climate zones in Africa.
Five
This trade route developed between North Africa and the Sudanic Empires.
The Trans-Saharan
This migration led to the spread of a single root language.
Bantu Expansion
The adoption of this religion primarily led to Iberian political partnerships and the early slave trade.
Christianity
Travelling to coastal cities was what part of the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade.
The First
Proximity to this allowed for the emergence of early African empires.
Water (Mediterranean, the Red Sea, and Indian Ocean)
This was the major impact of the trade between North Africa and the Sudanic Empires.
The spread of Islam
The iconic representation of these signified Mali's military, trade, and cultural strength.
Equestrian Figures
The need for this led to Portuguese access to the slave trade in the Kingdom of Kongo.
Military aid
We talked about two famous African explorers in the Americas. Name one.
Juan Garrido, Estevanico
This supported the expansion of agriculture and the domestication of animals.
Fertile lands (i.e. Sahel and Savannah)
The largest of the Sudanic Empires.
Songhai
These storytellers passed along culture and history from generation to generation.
Griots
These Queens famously led armies into battle. (Name One)
Queen Idia, Queen Njinga
Nearly half of all enslaved Africans brough to the United States landed in this coastal city.
Charleston, SC
This climate zone made trade difficult, but not impossible.
Desert
One of the earliest ironworking cultures of ancient Africa.
The Nok Society
These were used to represent African deities in ceremonies and celebrations.
Wand
Africans in this Iberian port city were able to climb to high social ranks.
Lisbon
This West Central African area was the largest departure zone of enslaved Africans to the United States.
In this climate zone, people grew kola trees and yams and traded in gold.
Rainforest
This west African empire voluntarily adapted Christianity and controlled their faith themselves.
The Kingdom of the Kongo
The act of combining ancestral cultural and religious practices with new ones.
Syncretism
Latinized Africans in the Americas were known as this.
This ship is famous for its mutiny and Supreme Court decision following the banning of the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade by the United States and Spain.
La Amistad