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Sub-Saharan Africa
for World History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How did the kingdom of Mali become wealthy? | through the trade of gold and salt. |
| The earliest kingdom in West Africa that gained immense wealth by controlling the trans-Saharan gold-salt trade and using iron weapons to dominate the region | Ghana |
| This figure was a powerful ruler of the Mali Empire, remembered for his pilgrimage to Mecca and his great wealth, one of the wealthiest indivudals in all of world history. | Mansa Musa |
| What two language groups combined to form the Swahili language of many East African nations? | African languages and Arabic. |
| Apart from Bantu language and culture, what was spread during the Bantu migrations? | farming and ironworking |
| This city in the Mali Empire was an important center of learning, trade, and education. | Timbuktu |
| What do we call societies that pass on history, traditions, and stories by word of mouth due to a lack of written language. | Oral cultures |
| Who were the storytellers and historians who preserved history and culture. | Griots |
| What are the main types of climates are found in Sub-Saharan Africa? | Raiforests, Savannahs, Deserts |
| Why was salt valuable in Sub-Saharan Africa? | used to preserve food and essential in diets for survival in hot climates |
| Which empire replaced Mali as a major power? | The Songhai Empire |
| What did traditional African religions often focus on? | ancestors, spirits, nature |
| When did Europeans first begin exploring along the coast of Sub-Saharan Africa? | The Portuguese in the 1400's |
| When did the Portuguese begin the transatlantic slave trade? | 1441 |
| This kingdom south of Egypt was known for producing gold and iron and built pyramids as well. | Kingdom of Kush |
| This kingdom in Western Africa (modern day Ethiopia & Yemen) was the first nation in the world to make Christianity it's official religion and was a major trading power in the third century AD. | Kingdom of Aksum (Axum) |
| What was the name of the Bantu speaking civilization that built the city of Great Zimbabwe, a major center of the gold and ivory trade. | The Shona civilization |
| What is the name of the desert that separates much of Africa from the rest of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern civilizations? | The Sahara Desert |
| What religion spread through trade and became the dominant religion of many northern, central, and eastern African nations? | Islam |
| What city on the Swahili coast (what the Arabs called Zanj) developed as a major trading hub between African and Arab merchants in ivory, cloves, and slaves. | Zanzibar |
| Name 3 of the main goods traded between Sub-saharan Africa and the Middle East & India: | Gold, salt, ivory, slaves, spices |
| What is the name of the semi-arid grassland just below the Sahara desert, home ot west Africa's earliest known civilizations. | The Sahel |
| What is the name of the world's second largest rainforest home to the world's gorillas, chimpanzees, and forest elephants? | The Congo Rainforest |
| What is the vast grassland (savannah) in central East Africa that is home to the big five African mammals (lions, leopards, elephants, rhinos, buffalo) | The Serengeti |
| What was the trans-Sahara trading civilization located in modern-day Chad that converted to Islam and dealt in salt, copper, ivory, ostrich feathers, and slaves for luxery goods from the Middle East. | The Kanem Bornu |
| This predominantly Christian empire in the Horn of Africa (1270-1974) was renowned for preserving its independence against European colonization and maintaining a unique, ancient culture, ultimately becoming modern Ethiopia. | The Kingdom of Abyssinia |
| What was Southern Africa's first known, highly organized kingdom was a sophisticated Iron Age society that established (1000 and 1300 AD) vast trade networks including Egypt and India | The Mapungubwe |
| This animal, introduced to Sub-Saharan Africa from the Arabian peninsula, made large scale trade across the desert possible and led to the rise of the major East African Empires. | The camel |
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