Geography of Africa
This desert is the largest in Africa.
What is the Sahara?
This belief talks that bodies of water, animals, trees, and other natural objects have spirits.
What is animism?
These two resources made many of the empires in Africa rich.
What are salt and gold?
This empire used the titles of Askia for their rulers.
What is the Songhai Empire?
This is my favorite color.
What is orange?
What is the Sahel?
To trade without speaking.
What is silent barter?
This empire made traders who entered their country pay a tax on the goods they wanted to sell.
What is Ghana?
These short sayings are used by African griots to help teach lessons to people.
What are proverbs?
What is 26?
These long, deep valleys are formed by the movement of the earth's crusts.
What are rifts?
This verbal telling of history has kept the history of Africa around for generations.
What is oral history?
This group of people was needed to help protect the trade routes of most African empires.
What is the army?
These are the main forms of art in Africa.
What are sculpture, masks, clothing, music, dance?
What historic road begins by the art museum in downtown Chicago and ends in California?
What is Route 66?
What are the Sahara, the Sahel, the savannah, and the rain forest?
This colorful cloth is often worn for celebrations.
What is Kente?
These three factors led to the decline of the Ghana Empire.
What are invasion, overgrazing, and internal rebellion?
These two epics are well known in African storytelling.
What is the Dausi and the Sundiata?
This is the age of Caleb Williams.
What is 24?
This river is in the middle of Africa.
What is the Congo River?
This group of people are the same age and go through life together.
What are age sets?
This empire used the title of mansa for its rulers.
What is the Mali empire?
This was the empire that rose up in the southern part of Africa.
What is Zimbabwe?
What is the real name of "The Bean" in downtown Chicago?
What is Cloud gate?