Culture
North. & West. Africa
East. & South. Africa
African Slave Trade
Miscellaneous
100

Storytellers that memorized the long ancestry of their people

Who are griots

100

This religion spread from Egypt to Morocco

What is Islam
100

Church founded in Egypt and official church of Ethiopia today

What is Coptic Christianity

100

Responsible for the slave trade on Eastern coast of Africa

Who are the Arabs

100

Belief that spirits live in rocks, trees, rivers, mountains etc.

What is animism

200
Most important element of traditional African culture

What is the family

200

The dominant language of this region

What is Arabic

200

City known for its coral buildings

What is Kilwa

200

Responsible for the slave trade on the Western coast of Africa

Who are the Europeans

200

Fez was a capital of what Northern African country?

What is Morocco

300

Most Africans believed in a Supreme Being or...

What is High God

300

Prominent Gold production in Western Africa gave the period between 500-1550 this name

What is the Golden Age

300

Common trade language

What is Swahili

300

Church official who gave authority to enslave "pagans & unbelievers"

Who is Pope Nicholas V

300
Name of a large family group

What is a clan

400

300 hundred mile wide band that separates the Sahara and tropical forests

What is the Sahel

400

Egyptian sultanate that reigned during the 13 & 14 centuries

Who are the Mamluks

400

Zimbabwe plateau near Sabi River is called...

What is Great Zimbabwe

400

Estimated number of Africans taken across the Atlantic

What is 12 million

400

King who converted to Christianity after a vision of James and Mary

Who is King Afonso

500

2 or more clans that share a language, beliefs, and customs

What is a tribe

500

Kingdom that began peaceful relations with Portuguese but ended with conflict and war in 1622

What is the Kingdom of Kongo

500

Meaning of "Zimbabwe"

What is "great house of stone"

500

Year the Arab slave trade was abolished

What is 1962

500

Kingdom permanently damaged by the Portuguese in 1600s

What is Mutapa