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Africa has over ___________ spoken languages
1000
The largest desert in the world
Sahara
Africa has over______ independent countries
50
Sub-Saharan Africa
What African empire was famous for it's Iron work?
Gahan
In the 7th Century this religion spread across North Africa
Islam
Mansa Musa famous ruled over what Empire
Mali
This Empire was Islamic with it's capital being Timbuktu
Mali
What animal opened up trade across the Saharan desert
Camel
The name of language spoken by the Bantu people
This African Kingdom is found in southern Africa along the eastern coast
What were members of a class of traveling poets, muscians and storytellers who maintain a tradition of oral history in parts of West Africa
Griots
Who was the Moroccan Muslim scholar who was the most widely traveled individual of his time?
Ibn Battuta
The leader of Mali Empire & the Richest Man in the history of the World
Mansa Musa
What Civilization/Group (s) migrated all across Africa?
Bantu People
What African Kingdom converted to Christianity
Axum
This African Kingdom is found in Northeast Africa, they used ships called dhows
What is the belt south of the Sahara where it transitions into Savanna across central Africa. It means literally coastland in Arabic
Sahel
Name one of the common goods traded from West Africa?
Gold, Salt, Slaves, Fine Cloth
What Empire was the 1st to establish all the western trade routes across the Sahara Desert.
The Gahan Empire
This African Empire took over the Mali Empire
Songhai
Tallest Mountain in Africa
Kilamonjaro
Who is considered the "mother of Ethiopia
Queen Sheba
Trade from West Africa across the desert became known as?
Trans-Saharan Trade