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Geography
Early Communities and Villages
Cities
Kingdoms
Miscellaneous
100
Of the four vegetation zones in West Africa, which is the driest?
What is the Sahara Desert.
100
Who were the leaders of the earliest, extended-family communities?
What is the elders
100
Who were the most respected people in the city of Jenne-jeno?
What is blacksmiths
100
What were the names of the three early West African trade kingdoms?
What is Ghana, Mali, and Songhai
100
A historian is studying a palm leaf fossil. Is this an example of an artifact, yes or no?
What is No. Because...an artifact is a man-made, tangible object
200
Of the four climate zones in West Africa, which is known a "semidesert?"
What is the Sahel (The Sahel is wetter than the Sahara, but drier than the savannah and the forest)
200
How do archeologists know that early villages faced the threat of attack from outside enemies?
What is they have found walls surrounding villages
200
How did cities that were trade centers increase their wealth?
What is by taxing trade
200
Like other Medieval civilizations, West Africans believed kings received power from whom?
What is the gods
200
Trans-Saharan trade was most influenced by what product?
What is gold
300
Of the four climate zones in West Africa, which zone has both a dry season and a long rainy season?
What is the savanna
300
What were three ways in which the Niger River helped early communities and villages grow and prosper?
What is it provided fertile land/agriculture, fish, and trade/transportation
300
Historians know that the city of Jenno-jeno engaged in long-distance trade, because of artifacts found there made of what material?
What is copper
300
Conquered people paying tribute was symbolic of what?
What is submission to the king's authority
300
Like the West African kingdoms, which other civilization studied this year also required conquered people to pay tribute?
What is the Aztecs
400
In addition to tall grasses, bushes, and scattered trees, what grows naturally in the savanna region?
What is grains (rice, millet, sorghum)
400
Why did the earliest, extended-family groups decided to settle together in the first communities?
What is to farm together
400
Discovering the 2000 year old city of Jenne-jeno disproved what previously held historical belief?
What is that cities did not arise in West Africa until they got help from outsiders (West Africans did not build cities on their own)
400
What were two disadvantages of becoming part of a kingdom?
What is paying tribute, army service for men, submission to theking's authority, and sometimes being ruled by a king's governor
400
What do we call the process of extracting iron from rocks called ore?
What is smelting
500
What are three examples of food resources that are natural to the forest zone?
What is yams, palm oil, kola nuts
500
List three ways in which iron tool making impacted or changed the lifestyles of early communities and villages?
What is more (1) more efficient farming, (2) larger populations, (3) more free time for specialized crafts/jobs, (4) more trade with surplus food/crafts
500
How did some cities in West African become kingdoms?
What is the city used tax money to raise an army, conquer other trade cities, and form a kingdom with their new land and wealth.
500
What were three advantages to becoming part of a West African kingdom?
What is protection from raiders/attackers, safer trade routes, wars stopped between small cities, fairly distributed luxury goods, sometimes conquered people kept their own leaders
500
What was the name of the group of people in West Africa that first started extracting iron and making metal tools, around 500 BCE?
What is the Nok