Geography
What are the two Major rivers in Africa?
The Nile and Niger rivers
the Berbers
What was Ghana's most important trade goods?
Salt and Gold
King of Mali who doubled the size of the kingdom and traveled to the Arab world
Mansa Musa
What European nation began the Atlantic slave trade?
Portugal
How many geographical zones does Africa have?
Five zones
African Storytellers
Griots
True or False, Ghana had a strong central governement and a powerful military
True
Who is the Arab lawyer who visited Mali and wrote about the Mali people and their culture
Ibn Battuta
What is the Earliest known form of African art?
rock painting
Muslim Holy City where Mansa Musa visited
Makkah
a language that means "people of the coast"
Swahili
A group of related people descended from the same ancestor
A Clan
What great warrior king, called the "Lion Prince", ruled Mali from 1230 to 1255?
Sundiata Keita
Which people's migrations helped spread culture across medieval Africa?
The Bantu
Africa is covered mostly by areas of high flat land, what are these called?
Plateaus
Tracing family descent through mothers rather than fathers
matrilineal
Stories passed down by mouth from generation to generation
Oral history
Who was the Songhai leader who built the largest empire in medieval Africa?
Askia Muhammad
In many African villages, after the age of six, African children were seperated and educated By what?
Gender
Name the five Geographical Zones of Africa
Tropical Forest, Grasslands, Sahel, Desert, and Mediterranean.
A group of people believed by many African groups to be able to tell the future
Diviners
True or False: According to the government of Ghana, power was transferred to the kings son.
False, power was transferred to the King's sister's son.
What religion was brought to Africa through trade routes?
Islam
True or False, Most African societies believed in many creator Gods?
False