Vocabulary (Africa)

Question 1

Or movement from one region to settle in another

Answer 1

Migration

Question 2

Describe both this large group of Africans and the language they speak

Answer 2

Bantu

Question 3

Areas of grassland with scattered trees and bushes

Answer 3

Savanna

Question 4

Is a desert stretching across most of North Africa

Answer 4

Sahara

Question 5

Accounts of the past that people pass down by a word of mouth

Answer 5

Oral history

Question 6

Or group of families who traced their roots to the same ancestor

Answer 6

Clan

Question 7

The powerful king if Mali, in West Africa

Answer 7

Mansa Musa

Question 8

A rich kingdom of the west African savanna

Answer 8

Mali

Question 9

The first West African kingdom to be based on the wealth of salt and golf trade

Answer 9

Ghana

Question 10

Became the leading kingdom of the west African savanna during the 1400s

Answer 10

Songhai

Question 11

Important kingdoms of the West African forests

Answer 11

Ile-Ife and Benign

Question 12

One of many trading cities along the coast of East Africa

Answer 12

Kilwa

Question 13

Located in present day Ethiopia, was an important East African center of trade

Answer 13

Aksum

Question 14

A city with its own government that controls most of the surrounding land

Answer 14

City-state

Question 15

This Bantu language has words borrowed from aribic

Answer 15

Swahili

Question 16

A powerful southeastern African city

Answer 16

Great Zimbabwe

Question 17

Border

Answer 17

Sahel

Question 18

African story tellers

Answer 18

Griots