Religion
Became a very adopted and practiced religion throughout Africa.
What is Christianity?
In West and Central African societies, _________ played many roles, including spiritual leaders, political advisors, market traders, educators, and agriculturalists
What is women?
European country that initiated the trade of enslaved Africans, and turned islands on Africa’s Atlantic coast into large-scale plantation camps
What is Portugal?
Trade cities in the Swahili coast traded raw materials in exchange for finished goods with other countries around the ___________ Ocean
What is the Indian Ocean?
This kingdom was involved in the trans-Saharan gold trade and was known for its vast wealth.
What is Mali?
An early African society that became the first African society to adopt Christianity as their religion.
What is The Aksumite Empire?
A language that came into existence after 1000 C.E. as the direct result of trade between Bantu and Arabic speakers on Africa’s eastern coast.
What is Swahili?
The focus of early government and political structures in Sub-Saharan Africa
What is Kinship (family)?
The longest river in Africa is...
What is the Nile?
The Catalan Atlas revealed ____________ about Mali
What is the wealth and influence of the ruler Mansa Musa and the Mali Kingdom?
Shrines to ancestors and divine spirits that include icons of Catholic saints and local African traditions
What is evidence of syncretism between African traditional religions and Christianity?
An example of African architecture that served the purpose of protecting the rulers and nobility of the society?
The walls of Great Zimbabwe
An event in Mali’s history that drew the attention of Spanish cartographers, leading to the creation of the Catalan Atlas.
What is Mansa Musa’s journey to Mecca with a caravan of 60,000 soldiers?
The geographic location of the Swahili City-States helped foster international trade by...
What is its coastal location helped link Africa’s interior to Arab, Persian, Indian, and Chinese trading communities?
Kingdom of Mali's most important city; a major hub for trade in gold, the enslaved, and salt.
What is Timbuktu?
In African societies, the ___________ were prestigious historians, storytellers, and musicians who maintained and shared a community’s history, traditions, and cultural practices.
What is griots?
Queen Njinga was known for...
What is fighting against the Portuguese to stop European colonization and control the slave trade?
African American Studies confirms this about early African societies.
What is they were globally connected complex societies before the Atlantic slave trade?
Africa is the __________ largest continent in the world?
What is the second?
An early African society that was the source of Egypt’s gold and luxury trade items that created conflict between the two societies.
What is the Nubia Kingdom?