Africa
During the Middle Ages and the ancient period before that, most visitors to Africa didn't make it any farther south than the ____________ ____________, which is in North Africa and inhabited primarily by ______________ _______________ and ___________________.
Sahara Desert
Muslim Arabs
Berbers
By __________ the empire had become extremely wealthy and powerful.
800
When Henry was a young man, he was part of a Portuguese group that seized the Moroccan town of _________________.
Ceuta
Africa was a major center of Christianity in the first three centuries AD. Many Early Church Fathers, such as _______________, _________________, and _________________, were originally from North Africa.
Origen
Tertullian
Augustine
During this time there were numerous African kingdoms and empires across the continent, but we are going to focus on the ones in northwest Africa, right where the ___________ ___________ transitions into the ________________.
Sahara Desert
savanna
The Ghana Empire did not last forever. It is not entirely clear what happened, though attacks from the North African Muslims weakened the empire. Little by little, the Ghana Empire crumbled and was no longer in existence by the early _______________.
1200s
Henry favored a new type of ship called a ____________.
caravel
The Christian faith all but disappeared in North Africa with the advance of Islam. Only in ____________ and in ____________ had Christianity taken deep enough root that it survived and continues to this day.
Egypt
Ethiopia
The three well-established, powerful empires were:
Ghana
Mali
Songhai
Like Ghana, Mali lay between the gold in the south and the salt in the north, and their empire eventually included the Ghana Empire, as well as lands farther south. Mali grew stronger, and by the ____________, they had become the dominant empire in West Africa.
1200s
Finally, in _________, Henry found someone who was brave enough to face the certain peril of the ____________ __________ ____________ - _________ ___________.
1434
Sea of Darkness
Gil Eanes
Although ____________ was introduced by the Portuguese to the Kongo Kingdom in central Africa between ____________ and ____________, it did not truly take root there.
Catholicism
1500-1700s
Looking at the Ghana Empire, though it shares the name of the modern country of Ghana, the Ghana Empire was actually located in what is now _______________ and _______________.
Mauritania
Mali
Mansa Musa became famous throughout the Middle East when he took the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. Muslims had served in the government and been important in trade before, but he is believed to have been the first or one of the first Mali emperors who was Muslim. The Mali Empire was no longer a powerful force in West Africa by the mid -_____________.
1500s
In the _____________, Portuguese explorers commissioned by Henry purchased ____________ and _______________ in an African market.
1440s
gold and slaves
Finally at the end of the ____________ _____________, Evangelical Revival missionaries came to invest in Africa. Their work finally brought an enduring Christian presence in Sub-Sahara Africa. Unfortunately, missionaries from the _________________ civilization were not the only ones who came to Africa at this time. _______________ slave traders brought with them their greed and desire to plunder the great continent of Africa, not only of its people to be sold as slaves but also of its abundant natural resources to sell for a profit.
18th century
Western
Transatlantic
How did the Ghanaian people become wealthy?
their gold
their neighbors gold
passage tax
The ___________ Empire started to become powerful in the late ______________ and eventually included much of the Mali Empire, as well as points west and east.
"We got lost and ended up in ______________!"
____________ was a major city in the ______________ Empire.
Songhai
1300s
Timbuktu
Timbuktu
Songhai
Even as the slave trade was beginning, God was raising up men and women who would stand against it. Evil never goes unpunished by our Holy God. In the end, _______________ will be thrown into the abyss. You can read about this in Revelation _______:______-_______.
*Bonus*
Scripture reference
Satan
20:2-3
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2 He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. 3 He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After that, he must be set free for a short time.
Slowly but surely, the Gospel spread throughout the remote areas of the continent. Reformers called for change in the missionary-established churches, which led to both reform and new churches- including churches started by Africans. These are called the ______________ ______________ _______________.
*Bonus*
Name the celebration that takes place in Ethiopia at the oldest African Initiated Church, which commemorates Jesus' baptism~
African Initiated Churches
**Timkat