Africa

Question 1

savannah

Answer 1

a port in Georgia, just south of the border with South Carolina, on the Savannah River close to its outlet on the Atlantic; pop. 132,410 (est. 2008).

Question 2

plateau

Answer 2

an area of relatively level high ground.
a state of little or no change following a period of activity or progress
reach a state of little or no change after a time of activity or progress:

Question 3

sahara desert

Answer 3

a vast desert in North Africa that extends from the Atlantic Ocean on the west to the Red Sea on the east and from the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlas Mountains in the north to the Sahel in the south.

Question 4

bantu

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a group of Niger–Congo languages spoken in central and southern Africa, including Swahili, Xhosa, and Zulu.
a member of an indigenous people of central and southern Africa that speaks a Bantu language.

Question 5

swahili

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a Bantu language widely used as a lingua franca in East Africa and having official status in several countries. Also called Kiswahili.

Question 6

subsistence farming

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farming that generates only enough produce to feed the farmer’s family, with little or nothing left over to sell

Question 7

mansa musa

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Empire 1312, 37 a muslim He brought the mali empire to. Its greatest height During his reign timbuktu became A center of muslim. culture and scholarship

Question 8

ghana

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a country in West Africa, with a southern coastline that borders on the Atlantic Ocean; pop. 23,887,800 (est. 2009); capital, Accra; languages, English (official) and West African languages. Former name (until 1957) Gold Coast.

Question 9

mali

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a landlocked country in West Africa, south of Algeria, in the Sahel except for desert in the north; pop. 13,443,200 (est. 2009); capital, Bamako; languages, French (official) and others mainly of the Mande group. Former name (until 1958) French Sudan.

Question 10

zimbabwe

Answer 10

a landlocked country in southeastern Africa, separated from Zambia by the Zambezi River; pop. 11,392,600 (est. 2009); capital, Harare; languages, English (official), Shona, Ndebele, and others.

Question 11

timbuktu

Answer 11

a town in northern Mali; pop. 35,600 (est. 2009). Formerly a major trading center for gold and salt on the trans-Saharan trade routes, it reached the height of its prosperity in the 16th century but fell into decline after its capture by the Moroccans in 1591. French name Tombouctou.

Question 12

mohammed

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is the central figure of Islam and widely regarded as its founder by non-Muslims

Question 13

askia

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Askia Muhammad I, born Muhammad Ture or Mohamed Toure in Futa Tooro, later called Askia, also known as Askia the Great, was an emperor, military commander, and political reformer of the Songhai Empire in the late 15th century, the successor of Sunni Ali Ber.

Question 14

sonni ali

Answer 14

Sonni Ali, also known as Sunni Ali Ber or “Sunni Ali”, was born Ali Kolon. He reigned from about 1464 to 1492. Sunni Ali was the first king of the Songhai Empire, located in west Africa and the 15th ruler of the Sonni dynasty.

Question 15

matrilineal

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of or based on kinship with the mother or the female line.

Question 16

oral traditions

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a community’s cultural and historical background preserved and passed on from one generation to the next in spoken stories and song, as distinct from being written down

Question 17

gold and salt trade

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exchange of gold and salt between North and West African traders

Question 18

trans-saharan

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Trans Saharan Trade requires travel across the Sahara (north and south) to reach sub-Saharan Africa from the North African coast, Europe, to the Levant.

Question 19

sub-saharan

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from or forming part of the African regions south of the Sahara desert.

Question 20

songhai

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a member of a people living mainly in Niger and Mali.

the Nilo-Saharan language of the Songhai.

Question 21

griot

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a member of a class of traveling poets, musicians, and storytellers who maintain a tradition of oral history in parts of West Africa.

Question 22

diviner

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noun form of divine

Question 23

lineage

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lineal descent from an ancestor; ancestry or pedigree.

a sequence of species each of which is considered to have evolved from its predecessor:

Question 24

ibn batuta

Answer 24

ibn Baṭūṭah, or simply Muhammad Ibn Battuta, was a Medieval Moroccan Muslim traveler and scholar, who is widely recognised as one of the greatest travelers of all time.

Question 25

indian ocean

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an ocean south of India that extends from the eastern coast of Africa to the East Indies and Australia.

Question 26

sahel

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a vast semiarid region of North Africa, south of the Sahara, that forms a transitional zone between the desert and the region known as Sudan.