Empires of Africa
Vocabulary
Slavery
Islam
Geography
100
This African Empire called their kings Pharoah
What is Egypt.
100
This is when you reduce another human to a thing by treating them as a nonhuman object.
What is dehumanization.
100
This is why some tribes would sell the people they captured in battles to far off countries as slaves.
What is so they would not escape and try to run back home.
100
This is the holy book of Islam.
What is The Koran.
100
This country is at the southern tip of Africa.
What is South Africa?
200
This African Empire was the largest.
What is The Songhay
200
This a scientist that studies African people.
What is an Africologist?
200
These are some of the jobs female slaves had in Africa.
What are business women, concubines, or sewing.
200
This is the Islam title for God.
What is Allah?
200
This ocean is on the Western coast of Africa.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
300
This African Empire called their rulers Mansas.
What is Mali
300
This is when you exchange goods and services for other goods and services.
What is to barter.
300
What is one of the differences between slavery in Africa and slavery in the United States
What is -slaves had more respect -they were usually captured in a war -Black people owned other black people
300
This is the holy city of Islam.
What is Mecca?
300
This sea is on the northern border of Africa.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
400
This African Empire was known for selling a lot of salt and gold.
What is Ghana.
400
This is somebody who belongs to a group of people who move from place to place seasonally in search of food, water, or work.
What are nomads?
400
This is how African slaves were transported to the United States.
What is by boat
400
This man was the main prophet of Islam.
Who is Muhammad?
400
This is one of the longest rivers in the world. It flows from the Mediterranean Sea through Egypt, then all of Africa, then ends in Lake Victoria.
What is the Nile River?
500
This animal was the main way people got around in ancient Africa.
What is the camel.
500
This is when Europeans traded African people for material wealth.
What is the European slave trade
500
This is the term for the forced migration (or spreading) of Africans across the world into Europe and America.
What is -African Mfecane -African Diaspora
500
This is one of the five Pillars of Islam.
What is -only one god-Allah -Prayer-must pray 5 times a day -Fasting during Ramadan -Charity-give to the poor -Pilgrimage-must visit Mecca once in your life
500
This is the name of the large island that is right off the southeast coast of Africa.
What is Madagascar?