Geography of Ancient Africa
This desert covers much of North Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
The roles traditionally assigned to men in Ancient Africa.
What is farming or soldiering?
Many traditional African religions honored these spirits for guidance.
What are ancestral spirits?
This Zulu leader improved fighting methods and became a powerful chief.
Who is Shaka Zulu?
This valuable resource was often traded for gold and heavily taxed by the king of Ghana.
What is salt?
The longest river in the world that flows through Egypt and Sudan.
What is the Nile River?
Girls in Ancient Africa were primarily raised to fulfill this role.
What is motherhood?
The supreme being believed to have created the world in many African religions.
Who is the supreme god?
He was the greatest king of the Mali Empire known for his pilgrimage to Mecca.
Who is Mansa Musa?
Camels were primarily used for this in Ancient Africa.
What is trade and transport?
Name the two major tributaries of the Nile River.
What are the White Nile and the Blue Nile?
These storytellers preserved history and culture through oral traditions.
Who are the griots?
Sacrifices in Ancient Africa could include food, drink, and sometimes this.
What is human sacrifice?
The primary source of wealth for the Empire of Ghana.
What is gold and iron mining?
This type of trade involved capturing people from raids and selling them to Europeans.
What is the slave trade?
The fertile region where the Nile meets the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Lower Nile/?Nile Delta?
Name another one common occupation for people in Ancient Africa.
What is artisan, priest, craftsmen, slave or trader?
This is the belief that spirits inhabit all living and nonliving things.
What is animism?
This empire was significantly weakened by pressure from Muslims and internal conflict.
What is the Ghana Empire?
These rivers served as crucial transportation routes for trade in ancient Africa.
What are the Gambia, Senegal, and Niger Rivers?
This African geographical region is known for its grasslands and savanna.
What is West Africa?
Geography affected these aspects of ancient African life.
What is trade, food, and resources?
The practice of Islam became prevalent in many parts of Africa, especially in this empire.
What is the Songhai/Mali Empire?
The empire known for controlling the rich trans-Saharan trade routes after Ghana.
What is the Mali Empire?
The main crops grown in ancient Egypt thanks to the Nile.
What are wheat, flax, and papyrus?