Civilizations Of Africa

Question 1

What were the large group of Africans and the related language they spoke?

Answer 1

the Bantu

Question 2

Is most of Africa in the Northern or Southern Hemisphere?

Answer 2

Northern Hemisphere

Question 3

What is a big grassland called?

Answer 3

Savanna

Question 4

What is north and south of savannas?

Answer 4

Deserts

Question 5

What is the Arabic word for desert?

Answer 5

Sahara

Question 6

What is the world’s largest desert?

Answer 6

Sahara

Question 7

What is a border or shore?

Answer 7

A Sahel

Question 8

What is the border between the savanna and the desert?

Answer 8

Sahel

Question 9

What type of landform is in the Sahara?

Answer 9

rocky mountains

Question 10

What did the Mbuti live off of?

Answer 10

Hunting animals and gathering plants

Question 11

What does sub mean?

Answer 11

Below

Question 12

What is the area below the Saharan desert called?

Answer 12

Sub-Saharan Africa

Question 13

What people keep African traditions alive?

Answer 13

Griots

Question 14

What was a very important thing that the Bantu knew how to do?

Answer 14

The knowledge of metal working

Question 15

Who was the Muslim ruler from Mali?

Answer 15

Mansa Musa

Question 16

What did Mansa Musa do that all Muslims do at least once in their life?

Answer 16

Go to the Kabba

Question 17

What area did Mansa Musa rule?

Answer 17

Mali

Question 18

What two items were the basis of African trade?

Answer 18

Salt and gold

Question 19

What was salt’s uses?

Answer 19

• very valuable for trade
• needed it to flavor
• needed to preserve foods
• needed to it maintain good health

Question 20

What area in Africa was the salt supply scare?

Answer 20

Rainforest

Question 21

What was Ghana’s wealth based on?

Answer 21

Salt and gold trade

Question 22

What was the main trading Kingdom in Africa?

Answer 22

Ghana

Question 23

What was Ghana’s capital?

Answer 23

Kumbi Saleh

Question 24

Was Kumbi Saleh divided into two?

Answer 24

Yes

Question 25

What region was centered in the Upper Nile Valley?

Answer 25

Mali

Question 26

Who was the crippled and fierce warrior?

Answer 26

Sundiata

Question 27

What religion came into Mali when Mansa Musa was in power?

Answer 27

Islam

Question 28

What was Tombouctou's nickname?

Answer 28

The desert port

Question 29

Why was Tombuctou's nickname given to it.

Answer 29

Tombouctou - called desert port - camels were ships of the desert - every ship needs a port

Question 30

What were Benin leaders called?

Answer 30

Obas

Question 31

How long did the Bantu migration last?

Answer 31

1,000 years

Question 32

What was the Ile-Ife leaders called?

Answer 32

Onis

Question 33

What did Kilwa do to all of the goods that entered its ports?

Answer 33

He taxed them

Question 34

What nonphysical thing did African kingdoms trade?

Answer 34

Ideas and Beliefs

Question 35

What was Aksum's official religion?

Answer 35

Christianity

Question 36

What did Muslims and Aksum rulers fight for control of?

Answer 36

Red Sea Trading ports

Question 37

What was the main center of trade in Africa?

Answer 37

Mali

Question 38

Where did Christian kings live in their kingdoms?

Answer 38

They moved all around their kingdoms

Question 39

How did people build churches?

Answer 39

They carved them into the ground

Question 40

Who did they do this under?

Answer 40

King Lalibela

Question 41

What did the port cities of Africa trade with?

Answer 41

China,India,Southwest Asia

Question 42

What item did the people of West Africa usually trade to get salt?

Answer 42

Gold

Question 43

What did Mansa Musa want Mali to be a leading center of?

Answer 43

Muslim Learning

Question 44

What did the Bantu people spread across Africa as they migrated?

Answer 44

Their language and culture

Question 45

Why did the Bantu people migrate?

Answer 45

They were looking for better farming land and better grazing

Question 46

What did Muslim scholars in the empire of Mali teach Muslims?

Answer 46

- religion - mathematics - medicine - law

Question 47

What did Sundiata accomplish?

Answer 47

He made Mali the most powerful Kingdom in west Africa

Question 48

Why did Kilwa, a Muslim city, thrive?

Answer 48

They traded with foreign lands

Question 49

How did historians study the Bantu migrations?

Answer 49

They examined stories told by traditional griots

Question 50

What did Ethiopians develop because they were cut off from the rest of the world?

Answer 50

Their own form of Christianity

Question 50

Who finally drove the rulers of Aksum from the coast of Africa?

Answer 50

Muslim traders

Question 51

What was one of the most important kingdoms of the West African forests?

Answer 51

Benin

Question 52

Where were the African forests located on either side of?

Answer 52

The Equator

Question 53

During the 300s, what became the official religion of Aksum?

Answer 53

Christianity

Question 54

What were four physical features of Africa?

Answer 54

- savanna - Sahara - desert scrub - Niger River

Question 55

What is the area south of the Sahara called?

Answer 55

Savanna

Question 56

What are African storytellers called?

Answer 56

Griots

Question 57

Who ruled Mali before Mansa Musa?

Answer 57

Sundiata

Question 58

What were the two rain forest kingdoms?

Answer 58

Benin; Ile-Ife

Question 59

What was the major trade product from Aksum?

Answer 59

Ivory

Question 60

What was the religion of the forest kingdoms?

Answer 60

Polytheistic

Question 61

What was the religion of the savanna kingdoms?

Answer 61

Muslim