Around 3000 BC this people group began migrating West and South from Nigeria.
What is the Bantu?
100
Merchants from this country set up trading posts along Africa's western coast during the 1400's and 1500's.
What is Portugal?
100
During the 1900's Africans began to express this desire to rule themselves (what is it called?).
What is nationalism?
100
Two reasons for Africa's high population growth.
What is better sanitation and better medical care/higher birth rate?
100
In Africa, a person's ethnic group is most commonly defined by this.
What is language?
200
King Ezana made Axum a major Christian power in this modern-day East African country.
What is Ethiopia?
200
Between about 1500 and the late 1800's, nearly 12 million Africans were sent to this location.
What is the Americas?
200
More Africans staged protests against discrimination after this major world event in the 1900's.
What is World War 1?
200
Overcrowding and poor living conditions are results of this issue in Africa.
What is rapid population growth?
200
The two main religions in Africa.
What are Islam and Christianity?
300
The earliest African empire that became wealthy through taxing the trade of salt, cloth, gold, and ivory.
What is Ghana?
300
European countries declared this African export illegal during the late 1880's.
What is slaves?
300
In the early 1950's, Kwame Nkrumah led a nationalist movement in a British colony in West Africa, earning this modern-day country it's independence in 1957.
What is Ghana?
300
A factor that is predicted to drastically decrease population growth in the future.
What is AIDS?
300
Roles that Africans have in community dances often reflect their...
What is social status?
400
Mansa Musa was the most famous ruler of this empire that replaced Ghana and became a major center of education and Islamic culture.
What is Mali?
400
Africans had fewer of these in their own land than the Europeans who lived alongside them.
What is rights and/or economic opportunities?
400
In some cases of civil war, these troops were called in to restore and maintain peace.
What are the UN peacekeeping troops?
400
Many people in this region suffer from this condition that is a result of not eating enough food or the right kinds of foods.
What is malnutrition?
400
These storytellers preserve history in West Africa.
What are griots?
500
This Muslim ruled Songhai- the empire that took over Mali.
Who is Muhammad Toure?
500
Many Africans were forced to work in harsh conditions in mines or on these large farms.
What is plantations?
500
This black leader was jailed for his stance against apartheid and later became South Africa's first president.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
500
These natural disasters have killed many people in areas close to the Sahara desert.
What are famines?
500
Large groups of people who are tied by a common ancestor in the far past