Vocab

Question 1

Artifact

Answer 1

An item left by an early culture

Question 2

Vegetation zone

Answer 2

a region that because of its soil and climate has distinctive types of plants

Question 3

Sahara

Answer 3

a large hot desert area in North Africa that covers 3.5 million square milles

Question 4

Sahale

Answer 4

a zone of sediment, south of the Sahara with small bushes and small trees

Question 5

Savanna

Answer 5

a vegetation zone of tall grass and scattered trees with long rainy seasons

Question 6

Niger river

Answer 6

the longest river in west Africa

Question 7

Nok

Answer 7

people living in West Africa in the 1500s bce who masters iron working

Question 8

Jenne Jeno

Answer 8

An ancient West Africa city built along the Niger river which excited for 1600 years

Question 9

Ghana

Answer 9

a midevil civilization and empire in West affrica

Question 10

Matrilineal

Answer 10

a family line trace throught the mother

Question 11

Mali

Answer 11

a West Africa empire ruled by the Mande that because a major cross rode of the Islamic world

Question 12

Mansa Musa

Answer 12

first west African rulled with the religion of Islam devotivly

Question 13

Patrilineal

Answer 13

a family line traced through the father

Question 14

Songhai

Answer 14

people who broke away from the Mali empire and built their own empire in West Africa

Question 15

Griot

Answer 15

talented poet musician of the made people who tell stories sing songs and recites poetry

Question 16

oral tradition

Answer 16

learning a cultural ideas passed on from one to another generation to the next

Question 17

Kente

Answer 17

a traditional form of cloth produced in West Africa