Module 5

Question 1

This Kingdom was near _____ and _____ Rivers.

Answer 1

Is near the Senegal and Gambia Rivers. Senegambia

Question 2

This Kingdom is located in West Africa and is now _____.

Answer 2

Located in West Africa and is now in Southern Nigeria. Benin

Question 3

Expanded from _____,_____,_____.

Answer 3

The Songhai Kingdom expanded from Ghana, Mali, and the western/ central region of Sudan.

Question 4

Is located east of the ________.

Answer 4

Is located east of the Songhai Kingdom. Kanem-Bornu.

Question 5

Was located between _______ and _____.

Answer 5

Was located between Songhai and Kanem-Bornu. Hausaland.

Question 6

What dates did Queen Nzinga live from?

Answer 6

Lived from 1583-1663.

Question 7

Where did Queen Nzinga live?

Answer 7

Kingdoms of Ndongo and Mtamba (present-day Angola)/

Question 8

What were Queen Nzinga’s accomplishments/ideas?

Answer 8

1. Was a resilient leader who fought against the Portuguese and their expanding slave trade in Central Africa.
2. When she became Queen, This threatened the Portuguese and many men within her own kingdom of Ndongo, she was kicked of the throne.
3. Led battles and raids herself; formed an alliance with Dutch to fight Portuguese.

Question 9

What dates did King Affonso live from?

Answer 9

1456-1542

Question 10

What was King Affonso’s accomplishments/ ideas?

Answer 10

1. Converted to Catholicism, built churches.
2. Replaced traditional local religious practices with Catholic ones.
3. Accepted inclusion of slaves in trade arrangements (up to a point).
4. Tensions arose due to increased Portuguese demand for slaves. Kongolese had to engage in wars with neighbors to get more and more slaves. Destabilized region.

Question 11

What was the role of Timbuktu?

Answer 11

1. Served as wellsprings for the spread of Islam throughout Africa.
2. Historically important as a trading post on the trans-Saharan caravan route and as a center of Islamic culture.

Question 12

When were the dates of the Transatlantic Slave Trade?

Answer 12

16-19th Century

Question 13

What is triangle trade?

Answer 13

A multi-layered system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one country by its exports to another.

Question 14

What is the Middle Passage?

Answer 14

Middle Passage, the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World. It was one leg of the triangular trade.

Question 15

What were cash crops?

Answer 15

Crop raised for sale, as opposed to crops grown for consumption (i.e. Tobacco, cotton, sugar, rice).

Question 16

What is a colony?

Answer 16

A territory under the political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.

Question 17

What was the Columbian Exchange?

Answer 17

The exchange of diseases, ideas, food, crops, and populations between the New World and the Old World following 1492.

Question 18

Who was Leo Africanus?

Answer 18

Born 1485 and died 1554. He is most notable for his discovery of the city of Timbuktu.

Question 19

People who dominated East African trade were

Answer 19

Swahili