Religion
Followers of what religion composed the first written history of Africa?
A: What is Islam?
What common trade language was spoken on the East coast of Africa?
What is Swahili?
The Sahel is a wide strip of land between the Sahara and the Mediterranean Sea.
A: What is false? (p. 113)
Who were the first Europeans to buy slaves in Africa?
Who was the Portuguese?
Which area was inhabited by the Akan people? (Egypt, The Gold Coast, or Morocco?)
What is the Gold Coast?
Coptic Christianity held beliefs similar to those of this church regarding the nature of Christ.
What is the Nestorian church?
What does "Marrakesh" mean?
What is the red city? (p. 118)
A sultanate is an Islamic King.
A: What is True?
What was the most important animal used by traders to cross the Sahara?
King Afonso ruled here, and the capital was Mbanza.
What is Kongo?
Which kingdom initially blocked the spread of Islam to the south?
What is Nubia?
What is griots?
The most famous structure in Great Zimbabwe was the Great Temple.
What is False? (p. 127)
What do you call a group of traders that traveled from oasis to oasis to survive the Sahara?
What is a caravan?
Did African clans consist of 2 or more tribes?
No, African clans consisted of 2 or more families (p. 114)
Did traditional African family values allow for polygamy?
What does Mamluk mean?
"one who is owned" (p. 116)
When an African child reached his early teen years, he heard his family's entire history.
Which country financed the explorations of Christopher Columbus?
What is Spain? (p. 105)
King Ferdinand II of Aragon & Queen Isabella I of Castile
Athalupa was the ruler of which empire?
What is the Incan Empire? (p. 108)