Ch 11 - Africa

Question 0

Sahara

Answer 0

A huge desert across most of North Africa

Question 1

Savanna

Answer 1

Area of grassland with scattered trees

Question 2

Oral history

Answer 2

Accounts of the past passed down by word of mouth

Question 3

Clan

Answer 3

Group of families who trace their roots to the same ancestor

Question 4

Migration

Answer 4

Movement from one country to to settle in another

Question 5

Bantu

Answer 5

Large group of central and southern Africans who speak related languages

Question 6

Sub Sahara

Answer 6

Area under the Sahara

Question 7

Why do we know little about the subsaharan desert

Answer 7

The sagar blocked Europeans from going more south so we know little

Question 8

Property and possessions were passed down on the

Answer 8

Mothers side

Question 9

What happened when Bantu moved to areas with people in them

Answer 9

They either kicked them out or moved in with them and their cultures mixed

Question 10

What skills did Bantu carry with them?

Answer 10

Knowledge of metalwork with iron tools for farming and hunting

Question 11

Mansa musa

Answer 11

King of Mali in 1300s

Question 12

Mali

Answer 12

Rich kingdom of the west African savanna

Question 13

Ghana

Answer 13

The first west african kingdom based on the gold and salt trade

Question 14

Songhai

Answer 14

A powerful kingdom of the west african savanna

Question 15

Ile-ife

Answer 15

Capitol of kingdom of the west african rain forest

Question 16

Benin

Answer 16

A kingdom of the west african rain forest

Question 17

Important river in Mali

Answer 17

Niger River

Question 18

Mali got rich by

Answer 18

Taxing all the traders who traded on the Niger River

Question 19

Giana’s Capitol

Answer 19

Kumbi saleh, divided into two cities, a trading city and a royal city

Question 20

Sundiata

Answer 20

Leader who united Mali in 1230 so it could take over salt and gold trade

Question 21

Mansa musa went

Answer 21

On a pilgrimage to Mecca because he was Islam and brought all his slaves and gold

Question 22

Rich city in Songhai

Answer 22

Timbouctou

Question 23

Songhai fell to

Answer 23

Morocco because they had guns and cannons

Question 24

Leaders on ile ife

Answer 24

Onis

Question 25

Leaders on Benin

Answer 25

Obas

Question 26

We know little about ile Ife and Benin because

Answer 26

Located on top of earlier city

Thickly forested

Question 27

Stuff that survived from ile ife and Benin

Answer 27

Sculptures of onis and obas

Question 28

Kilwa

Answer 28

One of the trading cities on east Africa coast

Question 29

Aksum

Answer 29

Important East African center of trade located inland

Question 30

City state

Answer 30

A city that is also an independent state

Question 31

Swahili

Answer 31

Bantu language with Arabic words, spoken along East African coast

Question 32

Great Zimbabwe

Answer 32

Powerful southeastern african city

Question 33

Aksum controlled the trading of the

Answer 33

Red Sea

Question 34

Main good traded at Aksum

Answer 34

Ivory(elephant tusk)

Question 35

King ezana

Answer 35

King of Aksum, converted to Christianity, made Aksum Christian

Question 36

Aksum declined because

Answer 36

Muslims fought to get trading of the Red Sea and won, Aksum loses power

Question 37

Aksum located in present day

Answer 37

Ethiopia

Question 38

Aksum surrounded by ? So had little contact with ? And

Answer 38

Mountains, European Christians and developed own version of Christianity

Question 39

King lalibela

Answer 39

King of Aksum, built churches into the ground

Question 40

Swahili was developed in ? Because

Answer 40

Kilwa, backseat they are trading with Arabs and adopt some of their language

Question 41

Kilwa used the ? From great Zimbabwe to trade

Answer 41

Gold

Question 42

Zimbabwe might have fallen because

Answer 42

The trade routes may have moved away to favor some one else or the farmers worn out all the soil