Chapter 8.1-8.3

Question 0

Land at the southern edge of the Sahara

Answer 0

Sahel

Question 1

Largest desert in Africa

Answer 1

Sahara

Question 2

Mainly flat grassy plains, but can include highlands and tropics

Answer 2

Savannas

Question 3

A religion where spirits play a important role in everyday life

Answer 3

Animism

Question 4

Storytellers

Answer 4

Griots

Question 5

West Africa’s earliest known culture from Nigeria in 500BC to 200AD

Answer 5

Nok

Question 6

A city located of a tributary of the Niger River in West Africa

Answer 6

Djenne-djeno

Question 7

A permanent move from one country or region to another

Answer 7

Migration

Question 8

Factors that push people out of an area or pull people into an area.

Answer 8

Push-pull factors

Question 9

Speakers of a group of languages who migrated from West to Southern Africa.

Answer 9

Bantu-speaking people

Question 10

A kingdom that conquered Kush located south of Kush and a Red Sea plateau

Answer 10

Aksum

Question 11

Aksum’s chief seaport

Answer 11

Adulis

Question 12

Very strong ruler of Aksum

Answer 12

Ezana

Question 13

Steplike ridges constructed on mountain slopes

Answer 13

Terraces