africa

Question 1

Savannah

Answer 1

low lying flat land

Question 2

Plateau

Answer 2

an area of relatively level high ground.

Question 3

Sahara desert

Answer 3

the largest hot desert in the world, and the third largest desert in the world after Antarctica and the Arctic

Question 4

Bantu

Answer 4

is used as a general label for the 300–600 ethnic groups in Africa who speak Bantu languages.

Question 5

Swahili

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Subsistence Farming

Answer 6

the action or fact of maintaining or supporting oneself at a minimum level.

Question 7

Mansa musa

Answer 7

I was the tenth Mansa, which translates as “sultan” or “emperor”, of the wealthy West African Mali Empire.

Question 8

Ghana

Answer 8

a nation on West Africa’s Gulf of Guinea, is known for diverse wildlife, old forts and secluded beaches, such as at Busua.

Question 9

Mali

Answer 9

officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa.

Question 10

Zimbabwe

Answer 10

is a landlocked country in southern Africa known for its dramatic landscape and diverse wildlife, much of it within parks, reserves and safari areas.

Question 11

Timbuktu

Answer 11

also spelled as Tinbuktu, Timbuctoo and Timbuktoo, is a historical and still-inhabited city in the West African nation of Mali, situated 20 km north of the River Niger on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert.

Question 12

Mohammed

Answer 12

was born in the Arab trading and pilgrimage city of Mecca, in the Arabian peninsula, between 570 and 580 AD.

Question 13

Askia

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Sonni ali

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Matrilineal

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Oral traditions

Answer 16

is information passed down through the generations by word of mouth that is not written down.

Question 17

Gold and Salt Trade

Answer 17

This is because Ghana handled the trade between traders to the north and traders to the south. The north had salt mines. The south had gold. Ghana was the the middle, and had a very strong army.

Question 18

Trans- saharan

Answer 18

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

Answer 19

Sub-Saharan Africa is, geographically, the area of the continent of Africa that lies south of the Sahara desert.

Question 20

Songhai

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Griot

Answer 21

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

Answer 22

of, from, or like God or a god.

Question 23

Lineage

Answer 23

lineal descent from an ancestor; ancestry or pedigree.

Question 24

Ibn Batuta

Answer 24

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

Answer 25

the third largest of the world’s oceanic divisions, covering 70,560,000 km².

Question 26

Sahel

Answer 26

is the ecoclimatic and biogeographic zone of transition in Africa between the Sahara to the north and the Sudanian Savanna to the south.