Geography/ Climate
Traditional African Societies
Slave Trade/ Colonization
Culture
South Africa/ Arts and Literature
100

This climate-related issue has worsened due to overgrazing and drought.

Desertification

100

This system helped teach children societal values.

Age-Grade system

100

What European country explored the African coast first?

Portugal

100

What element includes families, social classes, and communities?  

Social Organization

100

This South African leader was imprisoned for nearly 30 years.

Nelson Mandela
200

What is a cataract?

Large, powerful waterfall
200

He was a Mali emperor who spread Islam and known for wealth and pilgrimage to Mecca 

Mansa Musa

200

What region of Africa was most disrupted by the slave trade?

West Africa

200

What element is used to communicate and pass down traditions?

Language

200

System of inequality and injustice in South Africa? 

Apartheid

300

How have oceans played an important role in Africa’s development?

By providing links between Africa and the rest of the world?

300

This person told stories about the past in traditional African villages.

Griot

300

This term refers to the global spread of African people due to slavery.

African Diaspora

300

What element includes traditional, market, and command systems?

Economic Systems

300

What is a griot?

African storyteller

400

This physical feature separates Africa’s plateaus from its coastal plains.

Escarpment

400

This term describes the belief in spirits in both living and non-living things.

Animism

400

European colonization replaced barter economies with this.

Money / Cash Economy

400

What element includes democracy, dictatorship, and republics?

Government Systems

400

What group had high status from education?

Elite

500

Africa’s natural resources are described this way.

Unevenly distributed

500

Villagers reached decisions by discussing all sides of an issue, a process called this.

Consensus

500

Most African nations became independent during this time period.

1945-1975

500

What element helps answer life’s big questions and supports moral values?

Religion

500

Nations pressured South Africa to end apartheid using this strategy.

Boycotts and economic sanctions