Great Zimbabwe
In the Shona language, Great Zimbabwe means this.
What is "house of stone" or "honored houses?
This civilization developed in the coastal cities of East Africa.
What is Swahili?
People who told stories and sang songs for traders, villagers, and kings.
Who are griots?
This queen ruled Kush around 27 B.C.
Who is Queen Amanishakhete?
Grassy, tree-dotted planes that cover a large area of Africa.
What are savannas?
Walls of this material were built around cities.
What is granite?
Three Swahili cities that traded ivory and gold.
What are Mogadishu, Mombasa, and Zanzibar?
By keeping gold scarce, Ghana's kings followed this important rule of economics.
What is supply and demand?
In the year A.D. 350 Kush was conquered by this kingdom to the southeast.
What is Aksum?
Dry grasslands form a narrow belt along Sahara's southern edge, meaning "shore".
What is the Sahel?
Great Zimbabwe was located east of this desert.
What is the Kalahari Desert?
The trading cities Mombasa and Zanzibar were located on these landforms.
What are islands?
This small eastern territory rose to take Mali's place as the most powerful empire in western Africa.
What is Songhai?
These goods were used for trading.
What is gold and ivory?
The world's largest desert.
What is the Sahara Desert?
Great Zimbabwe became a trading center because of this resource.
What is gold?
Boats loaded with trade goods sailed this ocean.
What is the Indian Ocean?
This city was located at a crossrads of major trade routes, near the Niger River. It was a final stop for caravan routes that crossed the desert.
What is Timbuktu?
Ethiopian Christians didn't look to the Pope as their leader. Instead, this person led them.
What is a patriarch?
Africa's highest mountain measuring 19,340 feet.
What is Mount Kilimanjaro?
In the 1300s this important coastal city began trading with Great Zimbabwe.
What is Sofala?
The original people, the Swahili, were joined by these people on the eastern coast.
Who are the Arab Muslims?
In 1324, this king made a pilgrimage to Mecca, fulfilling one of the Five Pillars of Islam.
Who is Mansa Musa?
This king ruled Ethiopia from about 1185 to 1225.
Who is Lalibela?
Africa's longest river of 4,160 miles.
What is the Nile River?