Vocabulary
This is the type of agriculture where trees are cut and land is burned.
What is slash and burn?
The great Mali ruler who converted to Islam, built many schools and mosques, and gave away lots of gold on hi hajj.
Who is Mansa Musa?
This is the climate type where most of the African population was concentrated.
What is the savanna?
This kingdom was strongly influenced by the Egyptians, known for smelting iron, and its capital of Meroe near the Red Sea became a thriving commercial center.
What is Nubia/Kush?
This is the root language of West African people who migrated south; it eventually spread through Africa.
What is Bantu?
This is a distant military station
What is an outpost?
The "Lion King" who established the kingdom of Mali.
Who is Sundiata?
This trade city on the upper Nile was enlarged by Mansa Musa and was a cultural center where ancient Greek and Islamic texts were preserved.
What is Timbuktu?
This Kingdom which overtook Kush, was home to Greeks, Romans,Indians, Persians, Eqyptians, and Arabians
What is Axum?
These domesticated creatures from Arabia revolutionized trans-Sahara trade around 1000BC
What are camels?
This happened when the Sahari dried out and lost its fertility.
What is desertification?
The people of this trading state established the Coptic Christian Church and carved churches from solid rock in the 1200s.
What is Ethiopia?
Mogadishu and Mombasa were some major trading cities in this stretch of independent city-states on the East Coast of Africa.
What is the Swahili Coast?
This kingdom was in the V made by the Niger and Senegal rivers from where the king controlled the gold-salt trade across West Africa. Its capital was Kumbi Saleh with two walled towns.
What is Ghana?
One of the outside influences on Africa was these people who built roads, dams, aqueducts, and cities in North Africa.
Who are the Romans?
This is a large, grassy plain.
What is a savanna?
The king who conquered Kush and expanded Axum.
Who is Ezana?
The four major river systems include the Nile, Niger, Zambizi, and this one.
What is the Congo?
This kingdom founded by Sundiata replaced Ghana and controlled the gold trade routes. Its kings were called mansas.
What is Mali?
Building dhows and learning about these gave sailors along the Swahili coast a great advantage in trading with Asia.
What are the monsoon winds?
This consists of several generations sharing the same living quarters or in close proximity.
What is an extended family?
This Berber from Morocco was a Muslim scholar who journaled about his travels of 75,000 miles over 30 years.
Who was Ibn-Battuta?
Little is known about the government of his city state located on the Limpopo River; its people spoke Bantu, raised cattle, traded with India, and created gold jewelry, iron tools, and cotton cloth.
What is Great Zimbabwe?
This kingdom replaced Mali as the trading capital of West Africa by 1450 with Gao as its capital; it was led by Sonni Ali who both expanded the kingdom's territory.
What is Songhai?
These pillars commemorated the Aum king Ezana's life, conversion, and military victories.
What are steles?