africa

Question 1

savannah

Answer 1

a seaport in E Georgia, near the mouth of the Savannah River.

Question 2

plateau

Answer 2

a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons.

Question 3

sahara desert

Answer 3

The Sahara (Arabic: الصحراء الكبرى‎‎, al-ṣaḥrāʾ al-kubrā , ‘the Greatest Desert’) is 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

a member of any of several peoples forming a linguistically and in some respects culturally interrelated family in central and southern Africa.

Question 5

swahili

Answer 5

a member of a Bantu people of Zanzibar and the neighboring coast of Africa.

Question 6

subsistence farming

Answer 6

a type of farming in which most of the produce (subsistence crop) is consumed by the farmer and his family, leaving little or nothing to be marketed

Question 7

mansa musa

Answer 7

Mansa Musa was a Muslim, which was very common in Mali by the 1200s CE. In fact, most of Mali’s rulers, and at least half of the common folk, had become Muslims by this time period.

Question 8

ghana

Answer 8

a republic in West Africa comprising the former colonies of the Gold Coast and Ashanti, the protectorate of the Northern Territories, and the U.N. trusteeship of British Togoland: member of the Commonwealth of Nations since 1957. 91,843 sq. mi. (237,873 sq. km).

Question 9

mali

Answer 9

Republic of, a republic in W Africa: formerly a territory of France; gained independence 1960

Question 10

zimbabwe

Answer 10

Formerly Southern Rhodesia, Rhodesia. a republic in S Africa: a former British colony and part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland; gained independence 1980.

Question 11

timbuktu

Answer 11

a town in central Mali, W Africa, near the Niger River.

French Tombouctou.

Question 12

mohammed

Answer 12

the Conqueror”) 1430–81, sultan of Turkey 1451–81: conqueror of Constantinople 1453.

Question 13

askia

Answer 13

Then she bent and broke the flowery twigs from trees, such as the Sala, the Asoka and the Tilaka.

Question 14

sonni ali

Answer 14

the first king of the Songhai Empire, located in Africa and the 15th ruler of the Sonni dynasty. Under Sunni Ali’s infantry and cavalry many cities were captured and then fortified, such as Timbuktu (captured in 1468)

Question 15

matrilineal

Answer 15

inheriting or determining descent through the female line

Question 16

oral traditions

Answer 16

a community’s cultural and historical traditions passed down by word of mouth or example from one generation to another without written instruction.

Question 17

gold and salt trade

Answer 17

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. While existing from prehistoric times, the peak of trade extended from the 8th century until the early 17th century.