Ancient North Africa
One of the largest and hottest deserts in the world.
What is the Sahara desert?
These are the 3 West African trading kingdoms.
What is Ghana, Mali, and Songhai?
Coming from Elephants that helped grow city-states rich, and is something that is illegal in to buy and sell today.
What is Ivory?
A large amount of wind and water, sometimes lasting for multiple months.
What is Monsoon?
The largest River in the world flowing through Egypt. Was used for agriculture, trade, and transportation.
What is the Nile River?
This religion was heavily influenced in the West African kingdoms.
What is a Islam?
The Shona people established and grew this city into an Empire.
What is the Great Zimbabwe?
The blended language of Bantu and Arabic was called this language.
What is Swahili?
Some of the first people to domesticate plants and animals.
Who are Hunters and Gathers?
A large reason for the power and wealth of the kingdoms at this time was because of this trade.
What is the Gold-Salt trade.
This word comes from a Shona phrase, meaning "stone enclosure."
What is Zimbabwe?
This powerful kingdom was located in modern-day Ethiopia.
What is Aksum?
Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, and Sudan.
What are North African countries?
Trading city that was a center of arts, law, math, language, and culture.
What is Timbuktu?
This type of grassland covers most of Southern Africa.
What are Savannahs?
This wealthy trading city-state was located on an island off the coast of modern Tanzania.
What is Kilwa?
This land of water border North Africa to the North.
What is the Mediterranean Sea
Tangier native who travelled for 27 years.
Who is Ibn Battuta?
Two of the rivers in modern Zimbabwe.
What are the Limpopo and Zambezi Rivers?
In 1488, this group of people conquered East-African city-states using ships with military artillery.
Who are the Portuguese?