Wh Ch 6

Question 1

Nickname for africa

Answer 1

Dark Continent

Question 2

world’s largest desert

Answer 2

sahara

Question 3

world’s 2nd largest desert

Answer 3

Kalahari Desert

Question 4

vast tracts of land characterized by wet and dry seasons

Answer 4

Savannah

Question 5

Africa’s longest mountain range

Answer 5

Atlas Mountains

Question 6

Largest mountain in africa

Answer 6

Mount Kilimanjaro

Question 7

Longest river in the world

Answer 7

Nile

Question 8

Longest lake in the world

Answer 8

Lake Tanganyika

Question 9

Africas largest lake

Answer 9

Lake Victoria

Question 10

the largest rift in
the earth’s surface

Answer 10

great rift valley

Question 11

the greatest ancient civilization in Africa’s interior

Answer 11

Cush

Question 12

over-came Egypt and began a period of Sudanese rule over Egypt

Answer 12

Piankhi

Question 13

Nicknames for cush

Answer 13

Nubia or Ethiopia

Question 14

led the first recorded african to the gospel

Answer 14

Philip

Question 15

first african christian

Answer 15

Ethiopian eunuch

Question 16

one of the most mountainous regions of Africa and the location of modern Ethiopia

Answer 16

sabaea

Question 17

other name for sabaea

Answer 17

Abyssinia

Question 18

Two teens that basically created The Ethiopian Orthodox Church

Answer 18

Edesius and Frumentius

Question 19

became important and influential centers of Christianity

Answer 19

Alexandria in Egypt, Cyrene in Libya, and Carthage

Question 20

man who was compelled by the Romans to carry the cross for Jesus

Answer 20

simon of cyrene

Question 21

martyred for the faith

Answer 21

Tertullian and Cyprian

Question 22

createrd shepeard of tender youth

Answer 22

Clement of Alexandria

Question 23

shepeard of tender youth

Answer 23

oldest known hym

Question 24

defended diety of christ

Answer 24

Athanasius

Question 25

defended salvation through faith

Answer 25

Augustine of Hippo

Question 26

ruled by african tribal chiefs along the western coast of the continent near the Niger River, dominated trade across the Sahara between A.D. 300 and 1200.

Answer 26

Ghana Empire

Question 27

dominated most of what is now Gambia, Guinea, Mali, and Senegal from about A.D. 1200 until A.D. 1500

Answer 27

Mali

Question 28

The greatest ruler of the Mali Empire

Answer 28

mansa musa

Question 29

important trading center

Answer 29

timbuktu

Question 30

which dominated West Africa in the late 1400s and throughout the 1500s

Answer 30

songhai

Question 31

possessed more power and
wealth than any other west African rulers.

Answer 31

Askia the Great

Question 32

arose along the southern coast of present-day Nigeria

Answer 32

benin

Question 33

extended the boundaries of the kingdom in the 1400s, is remembered in oral histories as the greatest ruler of Benin

Answer 33

King ewuare

Question 34

the largest central African kingdom from the 1400s until the 1700s

Answer 34

Kingdom of the Kongo

Question 35

the belief that natural objects and forces are inhabited by mostly malignant spirits

Answer 35

aminism