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7-SS_6.2
Core 7 SS Ch.6 Lesson 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Bantu speaking people who settled in southern Africa and established a thriving empire in the ninth century? | The Shona |
| The largest of the Shona settlement and the center of the empire, located in an area good for farming and near key trade routes? | Great Zimbabwe |
| Great Enclosure | The walled section of Great Zimbabwe where it is believed that kings and queens of the Shona empire lived |
| The kingdom that replaced Great Zimbabwe founded in a fertile valley north of Great Zimbabwe? | Mutapa |
| The Shona and the Mutapa empires arose on the fertile land between two rivers the limpopo River and this river? | Zambezi River |
| A settlement encircled by large stone walls; the term comes from a Shona phrase that means "houses of stone" | zimbabwe |
| Brick made from mud and clay that was used to construct elaborate buildings in the great Enclosure of Great Zimbabwe | daga |
| The wealth and power of both Great Zimbabwe and the Mutapa Empire relied on control of the trade of this precious metal | gold |
| Founder of the Mutapa Empire who conquered most of present-day Zimbabwe | Mutota the conqueror |
| European country that eventually conquered the Mutapa Empie | Portugal |