Africa In About 1600

Question 1

Africa is 3 times the …….. in space

Answer 1

USA

Question 2

How much land is mountainous in africa?

Answer 2

1/3

Question 3

How much desert is there in africa?

Answer 3

1/3

Question 4

What quality was the soil in Africa?

Answer 4

Poor

Question 5

How many languages were spoken in africa?

Answer 5

Over a thousand languages

Question 6

What goods did the african export?

Answer 6

Iron ware, pottery, cloth, vegetables, grain and spices

Question 7

What goods did african import?

Answer 7

Cloth, horses, cotton, porcelain and glass

Question 8

What was the currency?

Answer 8

Cowrie shells

Question 9

What religion did people in West and South Africa believe?

Answer 9

Their own religion

Question 10

Were the christians in Africa and where?

Answer 10

Yes. Along the east coast in places such as egypt and ethiopia

Question 11

Where did islam spread across?

Answer 11

North africa

Question 12

How did people in villages lived?

Answer 12

Fenced compounds with different buildings

Question 13

How did families in cities live?

Answer 13

Together in a single house

Question 14

How did kingdoms grew up?

Answer 14

In a centralised government

Question 15

Where there empires in Africa?

Answer 15

Yes

Question 16

What happened with the tse-tse fly?

Answer 16

It killed cattle

Question 17

Why was there little agriculture?

Answer 17

Because of droughts