Family Patterns
Geography
Important Terms
Trade
Miscellaneous
100
Family ties through your mother's side.
What is matrilineal?
100
This is the longest river in Africa.
What is the Nile?
100
This animal was used to carry heavy loads.
What is the camel?
100
A traditional storyteller.
What is a griot?
200
Family ties through your father's side.
What is patrilineal?
200
The Nile runs through this country.
What is Egypt?
200
This resource was NOT a natural resource valued in Africa?
What is sand?
200
Was known as the "Ship of the Desert".
What is the camel?
300
Group of households who claimed a common ancestor.
What is a lineage?
300
This is the process by which land dries out and becomes hard to farm.
What is desertification?
300
These TWO products (natural) dominated the Sahara trade.
What is salt and gold?
300
Around this year the Sahara desert go through desertification
What is 2500 BC?
400
Groups of boys and girls, born in the same year, who receive different privileges and responsibilities as they age.
What is an age grade?
400
The amount of average rainfall a rainforest receives per year.
What is 68-78 inches?
400
This natural occurence was of much help in trade.
What is the Nile river?
400
Was conquered by Rome in the Punic Wars.
What is Carthage?
500
Parents and children living and working together as a unit.
What is nuclear family?
500
You are in Africa. As you look around, you see a few trees, a lot of grass, and a small pack of animals grazing. You are most likely standing in a ________.
What is the savanna?
500
These two natural occurrences were of much trouble to trade.
What is the rainforest and desert?
500
TRUE or FALSE: Africa is the largest continent.
False.