Vocab
These are areas of high and mostly flat land.
What is a plateau?
This is the longest river in Africa.
What is the Nile River?
The first trading empire in Africa
What is Ghana?
This is a seperate, but independate state
City State
This is the dominant religion in Africa today.
Christianity
These are tropical grasslands dotted with small trees and shrubs.
What is a savanna?
This person was the richest person of all time.
Who was Mansa Musa?
The smaller state that took Ghana over
What was Mali?
The richest man in world history
Mansa Musa
This was the pre dominate religion in Africa religion
What is islam
These are west African storytellers.
What are griots?
This recourse became pretty much useless because Mansa Musa gave so much of it away.
What is gold?
The state that broke free from Mali
What was Songhai
The largest desert in Africa
The Sahara desert
This is how Islam arrived in Africa
What is trade
These are the ships that the Africans used to sail.
What are dhows?
There are many gold and ___ mines in Africa.
What is a salt mine?
A large trading empire on the Red Sea
What was Axum?
What is an important city for trade in the southern Sahara
Timbuktu
Music and _____ are a huge part of African culture
Dance
The society that was a blend of African and Muslim cultures.
What was Swahili?
This place has some of the earliest human fossils.
What is the Great Rift Valley?
A larger kingdom in southeast Africa
What was Zimbabwe?
What was the nation that brought the first slave boat to Africa.
Europe
Enslaved Africans relied on this.
What is music.