Geography-Emerging Civilizations
and Religions
and Religions
What is the world's largest desert? It is larger in size than the United States.
Sahara Desert
What was the name of the most famous trading city/center in the Mali Empire?
Timbuktu
What was the name of the Arab traveler who lived in the 14th century and traveled as many as 75,000 miles visiting almost all of the Muslim countries?
Ibn Battuta
What type of society has groups of independent villages organized by clans and led by a local ruler or clan head?
Stateless society
What is the name of someone who believes that they have the power to foretell events?
Diviner
What was the name of the payment paid by a wrongdoer to the family that they wronged (injured or killed)?
Wergild
What was the first great trading empire in West Africa?
Ghana
Who created a new dynasty named the Sunni dynasty in 1464? Most of his life was on horseback conducting military campaigns expanding the Songhai Empire.
Sunni Ali
What is a society in which descent is traced through the mother?
What name was given to a group of people who devoted their lives to remembering and reciting their culture's history?
Griots
What kingdom, in what is today Ethiopia, conquered the Kingdom of Kush?
Kingdom of Axum
Who was the richest and most powerful ruler of the Mali Empire?
Mansa Musa
Due to the capture of the trade routes of what two resources the Songhai Empire was one of the strongest Empires in Africa?
Salt and gold
What was the most powerful state in southern Africa from 1300-1450?
Zimbabwe
According to some African cultures, ritual ceremonies were dedicated to who, as they were believed to be closer to the gods.
Ancestors
The Kush Kingdom was know for what type of material in which it made its weapons from?
Iron
What was the name of the nomadic traders who carried goods across the Sahara Desert?
The Berbers
What group of immigrants brought the practice of metallurgy to large areas of Africa?
The Bantu
In many African religions it is believed that one's what maintains connections between the physical and spiritual world?
Ancestors
What culture is the oldest known West African culture to have created sculpture?
The Nok Culture
What was one of the four main resources that Nubia traded with the rest of the Africa/world?
Ivory, Ebony, Frankinsence, Leopard skins
What was one of Ghana's four main pillars of their economy?
Iron Ore, Gold mining, Agriculture, and Trade
Which two conquests gave Sunni Ali control of the Trans-Saharan trade routes?
Conquests of Timbuktu and Jenne
What was typically worn during initation and funeral rites?
Face masks
What is one of the three components of African music that is still in use to this day?
Percussion: drums
Call and response
Improvisation