Chapter 6

Question 1

What was Africa known as because it remained an unexplored mystery until the 19th century?

Answer 1

the Dark Continent

Question 2

What is the world’s largest desert which spreads over much of northern Africa?

Answer 2

Sahara

Question 3

About how much of the African continent is covered with desert?

Answer 3

2/5

Question 4

What is the desert that spans much of southern Africa?

Answer 4

Kalahari Desert

Question 5

What are vast tracts of land characterized by wet and dry seasons which lie between the deserts and the rain forests?

Answer 5

savannas

Question 6

What is Africa’s longest mountain range?

Answer 6

Atlas Mountains

Question 7

What is Africa’s tallest mountain that is the source of the Nile River?

Answer 7

Mount Kilimanjaro

Question 8

What is the world’s longest river?

Answer 8

Nile River

Question 9

What is Africa’s longest lake that is the source of the Nile River?

Answer 9

Lake Victoria

Question 10

What is the world’s longest and second deepest lake that is a source of water for the Congo River?

Answer 10

Lake Tanganyika

Question 11

What is the largest rift in the earth’s system?

Answer 11

Great Rift Valley

Question 12

Who were the three sons of Ham who migrated from Babel to Africa?

Answer 12

Mizraim, Phut, and Cush

Question 13

Where did Phut’s descendants probably settle?

Answer 13

in the region now occupied by the Sahara Desert

Question 14

What are the three names that the Scripture calls the area that was settled by Phut’s descendants?

Answer 14

Phut, Put, and Libya

Question 15

What is the greatest ancient civilization in Africa’s interior?

Answer 15

Kingdom of Cush

Question 16

Who was a Cushite warrior who overcame Egypt and began a period of Sudanese rule over Egypt?

Answer 16

Piankhi

Question 17

What was Cush often called in ancient times?

Answer 17

Nubia or Ethiopia

Question 18

What was the Kingdom of Cush located?

Answer 18

north and west of modern-day Ethiopia

Question 19

Who was a Cushite who helped the prophet Jeremiah when he was cast into prison by King Zedekiah of Judah?

Answer 19

Ebed-melech

Question 20

Who was the first African on record to become a Christian who is perhaps the most famous Cushite in world history?

Answer 20

the unnamed Ethiopian eunuch

Question 21

What was one of the most mountainous regions of Africa and the location of modern Ethiopia?

Answer 21

Sabaea

Question 22

What was Sabaea formerly known as?

Answer 22

Abyssinia, Seba, and the Kingdom of Aksum

Question 23

Who was the ruler who brought gold, precious stones, and costly spices as tribute to King Soloman?

Answer 23

Queen of Sheba

Question 24

Who were the two Christian youths from Rome who were shipwrecked, taken to Ethiopia as slaves, but were able to start a form of Christianity in the Kingdom of Aksum?

Answer 24

Edesius and Frumenius

Question 25

Who was the first bishop of the Ethiopian Christian Church?

Answer 25

Frumentius

Question 26

Who was remembered as the man who was compelled by the Romans to carry the cross for Jesus?

Answer 26

Simon of Cyrene

Question 27

Who wrote the oldest surviving Christian hymn?

Answer 27

Clement of Alexandria

Question 28

What is the oldest surviving Christian hymn?

Answer 28

"Shepherd of Tender Youth"

Question 29

Who was the eloquent and impassioned spokesman for the deity of Christ and doctrine of the Trinity at the Counsil of Nicaea?

Answer 29

Athanasius of Alexandria

Question 30

Who championed the biblical emphasis of salvation by grace alone and later inspired the Protestant Reformers Martin Luther and John Calvin?

Answer 30

Augustine of Hippo

Question 31

What was the people group who were located along the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden that is most likely modern Somalia and traded extensively with the Egyptains?

Answer 31

Punt

Question 32

Which African empire was ruled by African tribal chiefs along the western coast of the continent near the Niger River and dominated trade across the Sahara between A.D. 300 to 1200?

Answer 32

Ghana Empire

Question 33

Which African empire follow the fall of the Ghana Empire?

Answer 33

Mali Empire

Question 34

Who was the greatest ruler of the Mali Empire?

Answer 34

Mansa Musa

Question 35

What was a famous center for learning and culture under the Mali Empire?

Answer 35

Timbuktu

Question 36

What was the third great African kingdom which dominated West Africa in the late 1400s and throughout the 1500s?

Answer 36

Songhai Empire

Question 37

Who was one of the most famous rulers of the Songhai Empire who possessed more power and wealth than any other west African rulers?

Answer 37

Askia the Great

Question 38

Which African Kingdom arose along the southern coast of present day Nigeria during the 1200s?

Answer 38

Kingdom of Benin

Question 39

Who is remembered in oral histories as the greatest ruler of Benin?

Answer 39

King Ewuare

Question 40

What was the largest central African kingdom from the 1400s until the 1700s?

Answer 40

Kingdom of the Kongo

Question 41

What was a city in the modern country of Zimbabwe?

Answer 41

Zimbabwe

Question 42

What is the belief that natural objects and forces are inhabited by mostly malignant spirits?

Answer 42

animism

Question 43

What was the group that dominated North Africa by the A.D. 700s?

Answer 43

Arabic-speaking Muslims

Question 44

Who were the two great early church fathers in the city of Carthage who were martyred for their faith?

Answer 44

Tertullian and Cyprian

Question 45

Who were two great theologians from the city of Alexandria?

Answer 45

Clement and Origen