Africa

Ancient Africa

100

Oldest ancient kingdom in Africa.

Egypt

200

Most Pharaohs were not buried in pyramids.  Many Pharaohs were buried in underground tombs in this famous location.

Valley of the Kings

300

This Empire located in North Africa was the main rival to the early Roman Empire before it was destroyed by Rome.

Carthage.

400

Kingdom that rivaled ancient Egypt to the South.  They were famous for being experts in Astronomy and Archery, plus they had the best horses. 

Kingdom of Kush (Nubia)

500

Oldest Stone ruins in Southern Africa belonged to this civilization, which shares its name with a modern country in Africa today.  Its name means "Houses of Stone".

Great Zimbabwe

Colonialism in Africa

100

First European country to colonize Africa and capture African slaves to bring to the Americas.

Portugal.

200

Name the only 2 African nations that were never colonized by Europeans.

Liberia and Ethiopia.

300

Identify the 4 main Plantation Crops that African slaves harvested for Europeans in the American colonies.

Tobacco, Cotton, Coffee, or Sugar.

400

Name the system of racial segregation that was used in South Africa until the 1990s.

Apartheid

500

The conference where European powers divided up the African continent was held in which European capital city?

Berlin, Germany

Modern Africa

100

Most populated country in Africa today.

Nigeria

200

Name the last Emperor of Ethiopia, who was killed in a Communist Coup in 1975 which ended his family's 700 year reign over Ethiopia.  He is a revered religious figure among Rastafarians today.

Haile Selassie

300

After 2 U.S. helicopters were shot down and 17 soldiers killed the United States abandoned efforts to bring peace and stability to this East African country during its Civil War in the 1990s.

Somalia

400

Largest war in African History, known by many as Africa's Great War, involved over a dozen nations but was primarily started by which two African countries?

Rwanda versus D.R. Congo

500

The idea that all people of African descent around the world have a responsibility to promote African pride and help improve the destiny of Africa.

Pan-Africanism

African Geography

100

Longest river in the world, located in East Africa.

The Nile.

200

Largest Arid desert in the world, located in North Africa.

Sahara Desert

300

Tallest mountain in Africa, located in Tanzania.

Mount Kilimanjaro.

400

River that shares a name with the largest rainforest in Africa, as well as the name of 2 countries in Africa.

Congo

500

The dry grasslands that exist between the Sahara Desert in the North and the tropical Savanna grasslands in Central Africa.  They are slowly becoming part of the Sahara desert due to desertification.

Sahel Grasslands

Africans

100

Richest person in the world.  He was born and raised in South Africa but is a U.S. citizen today.

Elon Musk

200

First Black President of South Africa.  He was elected in 1994 after the Apartheid system ended.

Nelson Mandela

300

Egyptian Pharaoh who is only famous today because when his tomb was found it was still full of gold and treasure.

Tutankhamen  (King Tut)

400

As President, F.W. de Klerk allowed the first free elections, which he lost, and eliminated all nuclear weapons in this country.

South Africa

500

Name one African leader, and their country, who was ousted during the Arab Spring protests and revolutions that started in 2011.

Ben Ali (Tunisia), Hosni Mubarak (Egypt), Muammar Gaddaffi (Libya)

(Bashar al-Assad)