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Ch.6 African Culture
World History & Culture Ch. 6 African Culture
Question | Answer |
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How much of the African continent is covered by desert? | 2/5 |
What are the two major deserts of Africa? | Sahara and Kalahari Deserts |
Where are the two major deserts of Africa located? | Sahara is in the northern part of Africa and Kalahari is in the southern part. |
What is the world's largest desert? | Sahara |
What is Africa's longest mountain range? | Atlas Mountain Range |
What is the tallest mountain in Africa? | Mount Kilimanjaro |
What is Africa's largest lake? | Lake Tanganyika |
What river is the source for Africa's largest lake? | Congo River |
What is the largest rift in the earth's surface? | Great Rift Valley |
Another name used for Africa is the... | Dark continent |
Vast land tracts that have wet and dry seasons, and are located between deserts and the rain forest are called ... | savanna |
What stretches across the center of the African continent? | a dense rainforest |
What area did the descendants of Phut settle? | An area now known as the Sahara Desert. |
Give Biblical names for the Sahara Desert. | Phut, Put, or Libya |
What was the greatest ancient civilization in Africa's interior? | Kingdom of Cush |
By what name were Cushites or Nubians called in the Bible? | Ethiopians |
Name two famous Cushites mentioned in the Bible. | Ebed-melech and Ethiopian eunuch |
Give the names by which Ethiopia and its kingdoms were called. | Abyssinia, Kingdom of Aksusm |
How was Christianity introduced to Ethiopia? | In A.D. 300, two Christian youths from Rome were shipwrecked and taken into Ethiopia as slaves. They taught the gospel in the court of King Ezana. |
What cities became important centers of Christianity in North Africa? | Alexandria, Cyrene, and Cathage |
Name two church fathers from Carthage. | Tertullian and Cyprian |
What were the notable achievements of Athanasius and Augustine? | Athanasius spoke about the deity of Christ, the doctrine of the Trinity, and Augustine championed the Biblical emphasis of salvation by grace alone and inspired Martin Luther and John Calvin. |
Who dominated North Africa by A.D. 700? | Muslims |
What was the largest central African kingdom from the 1400's to the 1700's? | Songhai Empire |
What is animism? | The belief that natural objects and forces are inhabited by mostly malignant spirits. |
Who was the first African on record to become a Christian? | The Ethiopian eunuch |
Who brought gold, precious stones and costly spices a as tribute to King Solomon in Jerusalem? | The Queen of Sheba |
What ruler possessed more power and wealth by monopolizing trade across the Sahara desert in the 1500's? | Askia the Great |
Who was the greatest rulers of the Mali Empire? | Mansa Musa |
What important trading center did Mansa Musa make into a famous center of learning and culture? | Timbuktu |
Why was 19th century Africa called the White Man's Grave? | Many died from the intense heat, dense vegetation, malaria, sleeping sickness, and yellow fever. |
Explain how the slave trade developed in Africa. | Portuguese brought the slave trade to Europe and the New World. |
How did slave trade hurt missionaries? | Africans suspected that all white men, even missionaries, could be slave traders so they didn't trust them. |
What European country supplied many of the first explores and missionaries to Africa? | Scotland |
Name four of the earliest explorers of Africa. | James Bruce, Mungo Park, Hugh Clapperton, and Alexander Laing |
Describe the ministries and achievements of Robert Moffat. | One of the first missionaries in Africa. Translated the Bible and Pilgrim's Progress into African languages. |
Describe the ministries and achievements of David Livingstone | He was known more for being an explorer who expanded his missionary efforts northward and along the South Atlantic coast, discovered Lake Ngami, Traced rivers. |
What country was the first independent African republic? | Monrovia |
Who were the first two Christian missionaries to Monrovia? | Lott Carey and Colin Teague |
Africa's largest waterfall is called .... | Victoria Falls |
Who was the most famous Liberian evangelist in the Ivory Coast of Africa? | William Harris |
Who was the son of a witch doctor, but became a Christian in his youth and ruled as tribal chief of Bechuanaland (now Botswana)? | Khama |
What were the only two countries in Africa not to have been ruled by European power by the outbreak of WWI? | Abyssinia (Ethiopia) and Liberia |
What were the results of the move toward independence in Africa during 1950s and 1960s? | Civil wars broke out when Communist terrorists forcibly established their rule over newly independent states. |
Who tortured and killed about 300,000 people after he seized power in Uganda? | General Idi Amin |
How has Communist subversion affected southern Africa? | The Marxist government took power in Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Botswana through terrorism and the ANC. |
What are some of the most pressing needs and problems of modern Africa? | Spreading the Gospel, Food, Shelter, Education, Stable civil governments |
Who was the Marxist leader of the ANC who was imprisoned, and eventually released and elected the first black president of Africa. | Nelson Mandela |