Africa Before 1400

Question 1

How many countries are in Africa?

Answer 1

54

Question 2

How many square miles is the Sahara Desert?

Answer 2

3.6 million miles

Question 3

What area of Africa is dominated by the Sahara Desert?

Answer 3

North Africa

Question 4

What part of Africa has forests and savannas?

Answer 4

South Africa

Question 5

When was The Republic of South Sudan founded?

Answer 5

2011

Question 6

Where do most archaeologists believe humans first emerged?

Answer 6

The Great Rift Valley in East Africa

Question 7

Where and when were the remains of the earliest known biped (Lucy) found?

Answer 7

Ethiopia in 1974

Question 8

How old were Lucy’s remains?

Answer 8

3.2 million years

Question 9

Where did the Bantu people migrate from and to?

Answer 9

From West Africa to parts of Southern and Eastern Africa

Question 10

When did humans move away from hunting and gathering and started to settle down?

Answer 10

5500 BC

Question 11

What name did what Greek historian give to Egypt?

Answer 11

Herodotus called Egypt the “Gift of the Nile”

Question 12

Who united the two parts of Egypt and when?

Answer 12

King Menes in 3100 BC

Question 13

When did Egypt’s rule begin and end?

Answer 13

3200 BC until 30 BC

Question 14

How old are the pyramids in the Giza complex?

Answer 14

4,500 years old

Question 15

What present-day country was Nubia located in?

Answer 15

Sudan

Question 16

What were Nubia’s three nicknames?

Answer 16

Land of the Gold, Land of the Bow (Ta-Seti), and the Kingdom of Kush

Question 17

Which had more pyramids: Egypt or Nubia?

Answer 17

Nubia

Question 18

When did Rome take control of Egypt?

Answer 18

30 BC

Question 19

Who was Egypt’s last ruler?

Answer 19

Cleopatra the 7th

Question 20

Who was Carthage’s leader?

Answer 20

General Hannibal Barca

Question 21

When was Carthage defeated by Rome?

Answer 21

149 BC in the Punic Wars

Question 22

Where was St. Augustine of Hippo born?

Answer 22

Present Day Algeria

Question 23

Where does the word Ethiopia come from and what does it mean?

Answer 23

Comes from the Greek word Aethiops and means sun-burnt faces

Question 24

When did Ethiopia begin and what kingdom was it previously?

Answer 24

Began as the Kingdom of Axum around 100 AD

Question 25

When did Axum gain power?

Answer 25

After the decline of Kush

Question 26

What was the Kebra Negast?

Answer 26

Holy book in Ethiopia, means Glory of the Kings

Question 27

What was King Solomon and Queen Sheba’s son named?

Answer 27

Menelik

Question 28

What was the church carved from stone in Ethiopia called?

Answer 28

Lalibela