Africa Vocab

Question 0

Sub Saharan Africa

Answer 0

Africa south of the Sahara

Question 1

Rifts

Answer 1

Long deep valleys formed by movement in the earths crust

Question 2

Sahel

Answer 2

A strip of land dividing Africa from wetter areas

Question 3

Savannah

Answer 3

Grassland with scattered trees

Question 4

Rain forest

Answer 4

Moist densely wooded area

Question 5

Extended family

Answer 5

Father mother children and close relatives in 1 household

Question 6

Animism

Answer 6

The belief that bodies of water animals trees and other natural objects have spirits

Question 7

Silent barter

Answer 7

A process in which people exchange goods without ever contacting each other directly

Question 8

Tunka manin

Answer 8

Ghana reached its peak under rule of tunka manin

Question 9

Sundiata

Answer 9

Malis rise to power began under a ruler named Sundiata

Question 10

Mansa musa

Answer 10

Mali reached the height of the wealth power and fame in the 1300s

Question 11

Oral history

Answer 11

Spoken records of past events

Question 12

Griots

Answer 12

West African storytellers

Question 13

Proverbs

Answer 13

Short saying of wisdom of truth

Question 14

Kente

Answer 14

A Hand woven brightly colored fabric