Africa:Vocabulary

Question 1

Savanna

Answer 1

a grassy plain in tropical and subtropical regions, with few trees.

Question 2

Plateau

Answer 2

an area of relatively level high ground.

Question 3

Sahara Desert

Answer 3

largest hot desert in the world

Question 4

Bantu

Answer 4

relating to or denoting a group of Niger–Congo languages spoken

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

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Mansa musa

Answer 7

The Riches man in the world. And still is.

Question 8

Ghana

Answer 8

A country of West Africa

Question 9

Mali

Answer 9

A country of western Africa. The site of several powerful states

Question 10

Zimbabwe

Answer 10

Formerly Southern Rhodesia

Question 11

Timbuktu

Answer 11

a town in central Mali

Question 12

Mohammed

Answer 12

The Arab founder of Islam

Question 13

Askia

Answer 13

Askia the Great, was an emperor, military commander, and political reformer of the Songhai Empire in the late 15th century

Question 14

Sonni Ali

Answer 14

Sunni Ali was the first king of the Songhai Empire

Question 15

Matrilineal

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Oral tradition

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

Camel caravans from North Africa carried bars of salt as well as cloth, tobacco, and metal tools across the Sahara to trading centers

Question 18

Trans-Saharan

Answer 18

a desert in N Africa

Question 19

Songhai

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Griot

Answer 20

a member of a class of traveling poets

Question 21

Diviner

Answer 21

a person skilled in using a divining rod.

Question 22

Lineage

Answer 22

lineal descent from an ancestor; ancestry or pedigree.

Question 23

Ibn batuta

Answer 23

a Moroccan Muslim scholar and traveler

Question 24

Indian Ocean

Answer 24

third largest of the world’s oceanic divisions

Question 25

Sahel

Answer 25

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