Vocab
A special class of African storytellers who help keep alive a people’s history
Griot
What is it called when lineage is traced through the father?
Patrilineal
Who was the extremely wealthy king of the Mali empire who took a pilgrimage to Mecca?
Mansa Musa
How man Countries are there in Africa?
54
What is the large islandon the eastern side of Africa?
Madagascar
What is the term for the practice of growing just enough crops for personal use, not for sale
Subsistence Farming
What is a person who is believed to have power to foretell events called?
a Diviner
Who was the imaginary king that Europeans though would be a great Christian ally to help them win the crusades?
Prestor John
What is the largest country in Africa?
Algeria
What country is named after the kingdom that Mansa Musa ruled over?
Mali
What is a group of independent villages organized into clans lead by a local ruler or clan head without any central government called?
Stateless Society
What is a relatively high, flat land area called?
Plateau
What muslim empire defeated Mali and Ghana (by defeating the cities of Timbuktu and Djenne)
The Songhai
What country in Africa is named after the stone ruins of an ancient civilization?
Zimbabwe
What Country known as the "Land of a Thousand Hills," is a remarkably clean, safe, and progressive East African nation and has the highest percentage in the world of female representatives in it's parliament?
Rwanda
What is the term for an extended family unit that has combined into a larger unit?
Lineage Groups
What is an area of brad grassland with small trees and shrubs called?
Savanna
Who was the Muslim Songhai king who lead vast amount of military campaigns and build the Songhai dynasty?
Sunni Ali
What Country is found in nearly the exact center of Africa and borders Chad and Sudan?
Central African Republic
What is the second largest country in Africa known for vast untouched jungles, rich mineral mines, called the "green heart of Africa" and it's Capital is Kinshasa?
Democratic Republic of Congo
What is it called when lineage is traced through the mother instead of the father
Matrilineal
What is the largest warm desert in the world that covers a large portion of northern Africa called?
The Sahara
What was the first great trading state in West Africa that began around 500 AD in the upper Niger river valley?
Kingdom of Ghana
What Country in Africa is closest to Spain?
Morocco
What country in southern Africa has two different countries inside its borders?
South Africa