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These storytellers keep Sundiata alive in their epics.
What are griots?
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By 500 BCE, many of the Bantu possessed this, which let them fashion axes, adzes (a tool similar to an ax with an arched blade at right angles to the handle, used for cutting or shaping large pieces of wood), and tools that helped them clear land and prepare fields for agriculture more quickly.
What is iron metallurgy?
100
Kilwa was one of the several ________ city-states.
What is Swahili?
100
Christianity reached Egypt and north Africa during the first century CE. This city in Egypt was a prominent Christian center.
What is Alexandria?
100
The earliest Bantu peoples were...
What are agriculturalists?
200
Sundiata's crippled ________ spared him from being killed by his enemies.
What is his leg?
200
This fruit grew well in heavily forested regions and allowed the Bantu to expand into areas they could not breach before. It is originally from SE Asia.
What are bananas?
200
Early Bantu inhabitants of Kilwa relied on limited trade and this activity.
What is fishing?
200
North Africa was also home to this famous saint, who was one of the leaders of the fledgling church. There is a city in Florida named after him
What is St. Augustine?
200
Koumbi-Saleh was to the kingdom of Ghana as Niani was to which kingdom?
What is Mali?
300
Sundiata was, religiously, a ________.
What is Muslim?
300
Yam, sorghum, and ________ were the dietary staples of many South African peoples.
What is millet?
300
Eventually, the Kilwans were wealthy from importing pottery and stoneware, enough so that they were able to erect buildings made out of this.
What is stone?
300
Ethiopian kings had the Christian churchs carved from this material.
What is rock?
300
Social status in Sub-Saharan Africa was determined by quantity of slaves, not personal ownership of this.
What is land/property?
400
This empire was supposedly founded by Sundiata.
What is the Mali [empire]?
400
These indigenous peoples adopted cattle raising before the Bantu and Kushite herders moved into their region.
Who are the Khoi people?
400
Kilwans used coins made out of this metal to facilitate economic transactions; currency.
What is copper?
400
Ethiopians didn't establish relationships with Christians from foreign lands until mariners from this country visited them on the way to India.
What is Portugal?
400
African religion generally did not concern it self with matters of this branch of study.
What is theology?
500
The northeastern portion of this modern-day country was where Sundiata's father once ruled a small west African kingdom.
What is Guinea?
500
Malagasy, the language spoken on Madagascar today, belongs to this family of languages.
What is Austronesian?
500
Archaeologists have unearthed a staggering amount of this in Kilwa.
What is Chinese porcelain?
500
The Portuguese introduced Roman Catholicism to this kingdom.
What is Kongo?
500
With hardy camels, it took a caravan approximately this long to cross the Sahara.
What is 70-90 days?