Africa

Question 1

Who was Mansa Musa, and what kingdom did he rule?

Answer 1

Mansa Musa was a king of Mali

Question 2

How did he (Mansa Musa) cause inflation in Egypt (Alexandria)?

Answer 2

He gave Egypt so much gold that it wasn’t worth as much

Question 3

Mansa Musa passed through Egypt because he was making the —– which tells us that he was a ——-

Answer 3

Hajj

Muslim

Question 4

Mali was in —– Africa and its biggest city was ————

Answer 4

West

Timbuktu

Question 5

What two things were traded between Berbers and West Africans?

Answer 5

Gold and salt

Question 6

How did Islam spread to West Africa ?

Answer 6

Berbers–traders

West—Sand Roads/Saharan trade
East—Indian Ocean sea lanes

Rulers-Mansa Musa (Mali) and Kossi (Songhay) —> tell subjects what religion they are going to be

Question 7

How do we know about Mali?

Answer 7

Arabic traders write about Africa. Worry about bias here

Question 8

Mali eventually fell to what empire?

Answer 8

Songhay

Question 9

The eastern part of Africa saw the rise of ————. Was it an empire?

Answer 9

Swahili civilization

No it is a collection of city states

Question 10

What two big things did the African Bantu bring with them to east Africa?

Answer 10

Iron work and farming

Question 11

Swahili civilization really didn’t get started until the ——- century AD

Answer 11

Eighth

Question 12

Plateau

Answer 12

Relatively high flatland areas

Question 13

Savanna

Answer 13

Broad grasslands dotted with small trees and shrubs in Africa

Question 14

Sahara

Answer 14

Largest desert on Earth in Northern Africa

Question 15

Great Rift Valley

Answer 15

A group of mountains that loom over deep canyons in east Africa

Question 16

Congo River

Answer 16

River in the Congo basin located in South Africa

Question 17

Kalahari desert

Answer 17

In South Africa and Is one of the largest deserts in Africa

Question 18

Nubia

Answer 18

In Southern Africa

Trade with Egypt

Becomes Kush in 1000 BC

Question 19

Ethiopia

Answer 19

Highlands on which Axum rose to power

Question 20

Explain the significance of Christianity in the history of Axum

Answer 20

When King Ezana converted to Christianity in 330 AD, he made it the official religion of Axum

Question 21

How was Africa different 10,000 yrs ago?

Answer 21

There was a prairie

Question 22

What caused this change from one type of landscape to another?

Answer 22

Overuse— the grass can’t absorb nutrients

Question 23

When did West African people begin to farm?

Answer 23

2000–1000 BC

Question 24

Lineage group

Answer 24

Community of extended family

Question 25

Matrilineal

Answer 25

Descent is traced thru the mother Women could inherit property and the husband moved in with the wife

Question 26

Patrilineal

Answer 26

Descent is traced thru the father

Question 27

Diviner

Answer 27

People who believe they have the power to fortell events

Question 28

Griot

Answer 28

Special class of storytellers that served as historians by telling history orally

Question 29

Doctors

Answer 29

Exorcize ghosts

Question 30

Do the Bantus have ancestor worship? How important is it?

Answer 30

Yes Ancestor worship helps them live

Question 31

Where were the Bantu originally from?

Answer 31

West Africa

Question 32

Where did the Bantus have move to and take over?

Answer 32

South/East Africa

Question 33

What successful crops did the Bantus eventually get from the Malays?

Answer 33

Asian yams and taro

Question 34

What River was in the middle of the Malian Empire?

Answer 34

Niger

Question 35

Why are Cairo's merchants able to make so much money off of the people from Mali?

Answer 35

The people from Mali had a different currency so they gave the merchants more gold than needed

Question 36

What effect does all the gold have on Egypt's economy?

Answer 36

Massive inflation | Weak economy

Question 37

Inflation

Answer 37

So much money/goods is either introduced or made that the value of that money/goods goes down

Question 38

Official religion of Axum

Answer 38

Christianity

Question 39

The Bantu are

Answer 39

A language group/tribe originally from Western Africa

Question 40

Bantu religion

Answer 40

Ancestor worship Animism A class of diviners

Question 41

Swahili is a mixture of which two languages?

Answer 41

Arabic and African