Ancient Africa
This is the time before written history.
What is prehistory?
This is a follower of Islam.
What is a Muslim.
This is a fortified station where goods were exchanged.
What is a trading post.
West African empire involved in gold-salt trade.
Ghana
Where did football come from?
American Football grew out of English sports such as rugby and soccer and became popular on American college campuses in the late 1800s.
The river valley and homeland of many African cultures.
What is the Nile Valley?
He was Mali's most famous ruler.
Who is Mansa Musa.
He was a Portuguese prince in the early 1400s. He began sending ships along the northwest coast of Africa.
Who is Henry the Navigator.
This was a trading empire on Upper Niger river.
Mali
What is the most watched television event in America?
SuperBowl
Because of this event, people migrated to different regions of Africa, causing the development of distinct cultures.
What is the drying of the Sahara?
The spread of ironmaking skills and the rival empire of Aksum raiding trade routes led to the decline of what?
The Nubian kingdom of Kush.
Why did the Poruguese set up trading posts along the west coast of Arica?
They were interested in new trade routes, in trading goods for gold and in spreading Christianity.
West African empire that controlled major trading cities.
Songhai
How many cows make one full season’s worth of NFL footballs?
600
This gave Africans stronger tools and weapons.
What is ironmaking skills.
How did Ghana control the gold-salt trade?
They collected trade taxes and attracted merchants from around the world.
How did the African coastal states and Europe benefit from trade?
Europeans got gold and ivory. Africans got metal and cloth products.
This country started the Age of Exploration.
Portugal
This Dallas Cowboys running back is the only player to rush for a 99-yard touchdown, in 1983.
Tony Dorsett
What are the two factors that led to the growth and shift in population to be south of the Sahara?
1. Sahara became a desert.
2. Ironmaking skills spread
Why did Islam spread within West Africa?
Ghana welcomed Muslim traders and allowed them to build mosques.
Why were the first Africans taken to Portugal treated with honor?
The first great civilizaiton of the Nile River.
Nubia
The Baltimore Raves are named after what?
The Baltimore Ravens are named after Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.” The team mascots are named Edgar, Allan, and Poe. Poe wrote his famous poem while living in Baltimore in the 1830s.[