African Culture
This religion spread to Africa by Muslim traders
What is Islam?
The slave who introduced Ethiopians to Coptic Christianity.
Who is Frumentius?
Name Europeans gave to the region in Africa where gold was mined in abundance
What is the Gold Coast?
Common trade language built upon the Bantu language
What is Swahili?
Large area of flat grasslands
What is the Savannah?
The most important element of traditional African culture
What is the family?
Another name for Aksum (place)
What is Ethiopia?
Mali king who brought much gold to Mecca
Who is Musa?
Eastern African cities prospered in the trade of these commodities
What are ivory, gold (precious stones), and slaves?
What is a clan?
Followers of this religion composed the first written history of Africa
What is Islam?
Ethiopian King who became Coptic Christian
Ezana
Name TWO West African trading items:
What are cotton (cloth), gold, and iron?
Great city built near the Sabi river whose name means "great house of stone"?
What is Zimbabwe (or Great Zimbabwe)?
Group of traders with camels that traveled from oasis to oasis
What is a caravan?
Certain African stories often resemble what account in Genesis?
Creation
Ethiopian legend regards Menelik as the offspring of this king
Who is Solomon?
Title of the king of Mali; means "ruler"
Key port through which Zimbabwe's gold was transported
What is Kilwa?
The three geographical regions in Africa
What are the Savannah, the Sahel, and the Sahara?
This clan worshipped only one god
The Kikuyu clan
The imperial title of the Ethiopian ruler?
What is "The Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah"?
City in Mali that was later overrun by Moroccan forces
What is Timbuktu?
A Result of the development of trade in Africa
1. The rise of East African cities, 2. The development of Great Zimbabwe, 3. the rise of Swahili as a trade language
What material did the Africans forge into tools and use as a form of money in Ethiopia?
What is Iron?