Wh Ch 6 Flashcards
Nickname for africa
Dark Continent
world’s largest desert
sahara
world’s 2nd largest desert
Kalahari Desert
vast tracts of land characterized by wet and dry seasons
Savannah
Africa’s longest mountain range
Atlas Mountains
Largest mountain in africa
Mount Kilimanjaro
Longest river in the world
Nile
Longest lake in the world
Lake Tanganyika
Africas largest lake
Lake Victoria
the largest rift in
the earth’s surface
great rift valley
the greatest ancient civilization in Africa’s interior
Cush
over-came Egypt and began a period of Sudanese rule over Egypt
Piankhi
Nicknames for cush
Nubia or Ethiopia
led the first recorded african to the gospel
Philip
first african christian
Ethiopian eunuch
one of the most mountainous regions of Africa and the location of modern Ethiopia
sabaea
other name for sabaea
Abyssinia
Two teens that basically created The Ethiopian Orthodox Church
Edesius and Frumentius
became important and influential centers of Christianity
Alexandria in Egypt, Cyrene in Libya, and Carthage
man who was compelled by the Romans to carry the cross for Jesus
simon of cyrene
martyred for the faith
Tertullian and Cyprian
createrd shepeard of tender youth
Clement of Alexandria
shepeard of tender youth
oldest known hym
defended diety of christ
Athanasius
defended salvation through faith
Augustine of Hippo
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.
Ghana Empire
dominated most of what is now Gambia, Guinea, Mali, and Senegal from about A.D. 1200 until A.D. 1500
Mali
The greatest ruler of the Mali Empire
mansa musa
important trading center
timbuktu
which dominated West Africa in the late 1400s and throughout the 1500s
songhai
possessed more power and
wealth than any other west African rulers.
Askia the Great
arose along the southern coast of present-day Nigeria
benin
extended the boundaries of the kingdom in the 1400s, is remembered in oral histories as the greatest ruler of Benin
King ewuare
the largest central African kingdom from the 1400s until the 1700s
Kingdom of the Kongo
the belief that natural objects and forces are inhabited by mostly malignant spirits
aminism