SECTION 1
Africa's largest and most populated climate zone.
SAVANNA
What did writers refer to Ghana as? The Land of....
GOLD
What is the name of the unique language from Axum called?
Geez.
What is the vocabulary term for this definition?
"A family unit consisting of parents and children."
NUCLEAR FAMILY
Who was the founder of Mali?
Sundiata
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: What are the 2 things that acted as barriers to the spread of good and ideas in Africa?
1. harborless coastlines
2. high interior plateaus
What city was Hausa's most prosperous city state?
Kana
Who were the Falasha?
Ethiopian Jews
TRUE OR FALSE: Africa's villages were largely monotheistic
FALSE; polytheistic
Who conquered Nubia around A.D. 330
Ezana
QUADRUPLE JEOPARDY: What are the 4 main resources from Africa?
1. salt
2. gold
3. iron
4. copper
What city became a great trading city and center of learning?
TIMBUKTU
What idea entered Axum along trade routes?
Christianity
TRIPLE JEOPARDY: name 3 materials that artists used to make their artworks
1. Ivory
2. Wood
3. Bronze
True or False: patrilineal is the term for a family organization in which kinship ties are traced through the mother.
FALSE; father.
QUADRUPLE JEOPARDY: Name the 5 things that Romans built in North Africa
1. dams
2. roads
3. aqueducts
4. cities
Who was the greatest emperor of Mali?
Mansa Musa
Name one of the things that helped Zimbawbwe produce enough food to support a growing population.
fertile soil, trade, farming, stone enclosures, building large walls and palaces, cattle
What is a griot?
a professional poet.
African art mask were tied to...
religion
How much weight can a camel carry?
500 Pounds
Askia Muhammad was a leader in WHAT West African Kingdom?
Songhai
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: What were the two languages that came together to form Swahili?
1. Bantu
2. Arabic
What is SLASH-AND-BURN AGRICULTURE?
farming method in which forest and brush are cut down and burned to created ash, which is used as fertilizer for later planting fields.
Axum prospered partly because it has a port on the...
Red Sea