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

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the Bantu

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Is most of Africa in the Northern or Southern Hemisphere?

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Northern Hemisphere

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What is a big grassland called?

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Savanna

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What is north and south of savannas?

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Deserts

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What is the Arabic word for desert?

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Sahara

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What is the world’s largest desert?

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Sahara

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What is a border or shore?

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A Sahel

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What is the border between the savanna and the desert?

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Sahel

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9
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What type of landform is in the Sahara?

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rocky mountains

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What did the Mbuti live off of?

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Hunting animals and gathering plants

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11
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What does sub mean?

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Below

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12
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What is the area below the Saharan desert called?

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Sub-Saharan Africa

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13
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What people keep African traditions alive?

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Griots

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

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The knowledge of metal working

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15
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Who was the Muslim ruler from Mali?

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Mansa Musa

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

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Go to the Kabba

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17
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What area did Mansa Musa rule?

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Mali

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18
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What two items were the basis of African trade?

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Salt and gold

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19
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What was salt’s uses?

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  • very valuable for trade
  • needed it to flavor
  • needed to preserve foods
  • needed to it maintain good health
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20
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What area in Africa was the salt supply scare?

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Rainforest

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21
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What was Ghana’s wealth based on?

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Salt and gold trade

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22
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What was the main trading Kingdom in Africa?

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Ghana

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23
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What was Ghana’s capital?

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Kumbi Saleh

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24
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Was Kumbi Saleh divided into two?

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Yes

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25
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What region was centered in the Upper Nile Valley?

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Mali

26
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Who was the crippled and fierce warrior?

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Sundiata

27
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What religion came into Mali when Mansa Musa was in power?

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Islam

28
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What was Tombouctou’s nickname?

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The desert port

29
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Why was Tombuctou’s nickname given to it.

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Tombouctou

  • called desert port
  • camels were ships of the desert
  • every ship needs a port
30
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What were Benin leaders called?

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Obas

31
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How long did the Bantu migration last?

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1,000 years

32
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What was the Ile-Ife leaders called?

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Onis

33
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What did Kilwa do to all of the goods that entered its ports?

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He taxed them

34
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What nonphysical thing did African kingdoms trade?

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Ideas and Beliefs

35
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What was Aksum’s official religion?

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Christianity

36
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What did Muslims and Aksum rulers fight for control of?

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Red Sea Trading ports

37
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What was the main center of trade in Africa?

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Mali

38
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Where did Christian kings live in their kingdoms?

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They moved all around their kingdoms

39
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How did people build churches?

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They carved them into the ground

40
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Who did they do this under?

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King Lalibela

41
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What did the port cities of Africa trade with?

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China,India,Southwest Asia

42
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What item did the people of West Africa usually trade to get salt?

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Gold

43
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What did Mansa Musa want Mali to be a leading center of?

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Muslim Learning

44
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What did the Bantu people spread across Africa as they migrated?

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Their language and culture

45
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Why did the Bantu people migrate?

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They were looking for better farming land and better grazing

46
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What did Muslim scholars in the empire of Mali teach Muslims?

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  • religion
  • mathematics
  • medicine
  • law
47
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What did Sundiata accomplish?

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He made Mali the most powerful Kingdom in west Africa

48
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Why did Kilwa, a Muslim city, thrive?

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They traded with foreign lands

49
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How did historians study the Bantu migrations?

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They examined stories told by traditional griots

50
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What did Ethiopians develop because they were cut off from the rest of the world?

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Their own form of Christianity

50
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Who finally drove the rulers of Aksum from the coast of Africa?

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Muslim traders

51
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What was one of the most important kingdoms of the West African forests?

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Benin

52
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Where were the African forests located on either side of?

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The Equator

53
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During the 300s, what became the official religion of Aksum?

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Christianity

54
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What were four physical features of Africa?

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  • savanna
  • Sahara
  • desert scrub
  • Niger River
55
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What is the area south of the Sahara called?

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Savanna

56
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What are African storytellers called?

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Griots

57
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Who ruled Mali before Mansa Musa?

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Sundiata

58
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What were the two rain forest kingdoms?

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Benin; Ile-Ife

59
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What was the major trade product from Aksum?

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Ivory

60
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What was the religion of the forest kingdoms?

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Polytheistic

61
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What was the religion of the savanna kingdoms?

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Muslim

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