Geography
The world's largest desert is the?
Sahara Desert
Mali king considered the richest man of all time
Mansa Musa
What is the longest river in Africa?
The Nile River
What two items were the most important to early African trade?
Gold and salt
A group of related people decended from the same ancestor.
Clans
An area of high flat land is called?
a plateau
Famous city where mud mosques are found
Timbuktu
True or false: Powerful African kingdoms such as Ghana and Mali had strong central governments?
True
Songhai leader who built the largest empire in medieval West Africa.
Askia Muhammad
The most important Muslin holy city.
Makkah
A river that supported trade in West Africa.
The Niger river
A King who doubled the size of Mali
Mansa Musa
What region in Africa have scientists found some of the earliest human fossils?
The Great Rift Valley
True or false: Most African societies beleived in many creator gods.
False
Who adopted camels as a way to travel as well as food?
The Berbers
What are the five geographical zones of Africa?
Rainforest, Savanna, Sahel, desert, Mediterranean
True or False: In Mali only the king and his faily could wear clothes that were sewn.
True
This man was a lawyer who wrote about the cultures and kingdoms of West Africa
Ibn Battuta
The great trading center of Zimbabwe reached from south of Zambezi river to the..
Indian Ocean
A Language that means "people of the coast"
Swahili
The African zone that produces a surplus of crops
The Mediterranean
What great warrior king, called "Lion Prince", ruled Mali from 1230 to 1255?
Sundiata Keita
What was unique about the way power was transferred from one ruler to another in Ghana?
The kingdom was inherited by the son of the kings sister.
African story tellers are called what?
Griots
A group of people believed by many African groups to be able to tell the future
Diviners