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What are the Zambezi, What are the Zambezi, Zaire or Congo, the Niger, Zaire or Congo, the Niger,

and the Nile?and the Nile?

These are the four main These are the four main rivers of Africa. rivers of Africa.

What is Bantu?What is Bantu?

This is the African language This is the African language that originated in the that originated in the

southeastern part of Africa southeastern part of Africa 2000 years ago and spread 2000 years ago and spread

throughout sub-Saharan throughout sub-Saharan Africa.Africa.

What is the Great Rift What is the Great Rift Valley?Valley?

This is the valley that runs This is the valley that runs through the horn of Africa through the horn of Africa

from the Nile to Lake from the Nile to Lake Malawi.Malawi.

What is Eritrea ?What is Eritrea ?

This northern African country This northern African country has caused Ethiopia to has caused Ethiopia to become a land locked become a land locked

nation-state and hence the nation-state and hence the warfare. warfare.

What was Christianity?What was Christianity?

This is the religion adopted This is the religion adopted by Axum in the 300s AD.by Axum in the 300s AD.

What are Mt. Kilimanjaro What are Mt. Kilimanjaro and Mt. Kenya?and Mt. Kenya?

These are the the two These are the the two highest mountains in Africa.highest mountains in Africa.

What are Cape Horn and What are Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope?the Cape of Good Hope?

These are the tips or Capes These are the tips or Capes of South America and Africa.of South America and Africa.

What are the monsoon What are the monsoon winds?winds?

These trade winds helped These trade winds helped bring trade goods from India bring trade goods from India and China across the Indian and China across the Indian

Ocean to east Africa.Ocean to east Africa.

Who were the Who were the Portuguese?Portuguese?

These were the first These were the first Europeans to build forts on Europeans to build forts on

the east African Coasts.the east African Coasts.

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What are the Sahara and What are the Sahara and the Kalahari Deserts?the Kalahari Deserts?

These are two of the large These are two of the large deserts of Africa.deserts of Africa.

Who was King Ezana?Who was King Ezana?

He was the King of Axum He was the King of Axum who defeated the kingdom who defeated the kingdom

of Kush and established of Kush and established Christianity as the religion in Christianity as the religion in

325 A.D.325 A.D.

Who was Ibn Battuta ?Who was Ibn Battuta ?

He was the famous Muslim He was the famous Muslim geographer and world geographer and world traveler of the 1300s. traveler of the 1300s.

Who was Mansa Musa?Who was Mansa Musa?

He was the king of Mali who He was the king of Mali who made a pilgrimage to Mecca made a pilgrimage to Mecca with so much wealth that he with so much wealth that he weakened the value of gold weakened the value of gold

in Asia and Europe.in Asia and Europe.

Who was Sonni Ali?Who was Sonni Ali?

This is the Songhai ruler This is the Songhai ruler who captured the city of who captured the city of

Timbuktu in 1468.Timbuktu in 1468.

What was the Great What was the Great Zimbabwe?Zimbabwe?

This city was located inland This city was located inland in eastern Africa and built by in eastern Africa and built by a series of Bantu speaking a series of Bantu speaking Africans called the Karanga Africans called the Karanga

people.people.

What were the Mali, What were the Mali, Ghana and the Songhai Ghana and the Songhai

kingdomskingdoms

These were the three African These were the three African kingdoms of Western Africakingdoms of Western Africa

What was Swahili?What was Swahili?

This is the language and This is the language and culture of eastern Africa culture of eastern Africa coast, a combination of coast, a combination of

Bantu, Persian and Arabic.Bantu, Persian and Arabic.

What was the Kingdom of What was the Kingdom of Kush?Kush?

This is the African kingdom This is the African kingdom that reached its height from that reached its height from

250 B.C to A.D. 150 and 250 B.C to A.D. 150 and conquered Egypt.conquered Egypt.

What was Timbuktu?What was Timbuktu?

This city was the Mali This city was the Mali capital and a center of capital and a center of

Muslim learning.Muslim learning.

What was Gao?What was Gao?

This was the capital and This was the capital and important trading city of the important trading city of the

Songhai kingdom.Songhai kingdom.

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What were drums?What were drums?

These percussive These percussive instruments could instruments could

communicate news over communicate news over long distances in African long distances in African

tradition. tradition.

Who were the Griots?Who were the Griots?

They were the keepers of They were the keepers of this ancient history or oral this ancient history or oral tradition in western Africa. tradition in western Africa.

Who were the Mayans?Who were the Mayans?

They were the Native They were the Native Americans of the Yucatan Americans of the Yucatan

Peninsula who developed a Peninsula who developed a sophisticated calendar and sophisticated calendar and counting system based on counting system based on

20 that included 0.20 that included 0.

Who was Quetzalcoatl?Who was Quetzalcoatl?

He was the feathered He was the feathered serpent God of both the serpent God of both the

Aztecs and Toltecs.Aztecs and Toltecs.

What are Machu Pichu and What are Machu Pichu and Cuzco ?Cuzco ?

These two cities were These two cities were important in Incan culture, important in Incan culture,

one hidden deep in the one hidden deep in the Andes and the other city Andes and the other city

the capital meaning “city of the capital meaning “city of the Sun” the Sun”

What was the Benin What was the Benin Kingdom?Kingdom?

This was the Kingdom that This was the Kingdom that rose in the rain forest rose in the rain forest

regions of the Guinea coastregions of the Guinea coast..

What is matrilineal or a What is matrilineal or a matrilineal society?matrilineal society?

This the tradition in many This the tradition in many African and Aboriginal African and Aboriginal cultures of tracing the cultures of tracing the ancestry through the ancestry through the

mothers.mothers.

What are tropical rain What are tropical rain forests?forests?

These are the areas of the These are the areas of the world that receive more world that receive more than 100 inches of rain than 100 inches of rain

each year.each year.

What was the Sankore What was the Sankore Mosque?Mosque?

This was the name of the This was the name of the famous mosque built of famous mosque built of

mud brick and also known mud brick and also known as the University of as the University of

TimbuktuTimbuktu..

What were gold and salt?What were gold and salt?

These were the two These were the two commodities that commodities that

dominated the Saharan dominated the Saharan Trade routes.Trade routes.