Social Studies: Chapter 12
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- What is the world's largest desert?
- Sahara
- What is the Ancient Kingdom located along the fertile land of the upper Nile?
- Nubia
- What is the Kingdom of the Soninke People located between the Niger and Sengal rivers?
- Ghana
- What is the center of traade and learning in Mali?
- Timbuktu
- What is the capital of Songhai?
- Gao
- What is the kingdom in the rain forests of the Guinea coast?
- Benin
- What is the Cristian kindom in the mountains of East Africa?
- Axum
- What is the capital of inland empire whose name means "Great stone buildings"?
- Zimbabwe
- Define: desertification
- Process by which fertile or semi-desert land becomes desert.
- Define: griot
- Professional storyteller in East Africa.
- Define: lineage
- Group claiming a common ancestor.
- Define: mansa
- Mansa (Musa) Kings.
- Define: savanna
- Grassy plain with irregular patterns of rainfall.
- Who was Augustine? What did he do?
- He was the most influential christian thinker and he was the bishop of Hippo.
- Who was Lalibela? What did he do?
- He was the KIng of Ethiopia and had a dozen churches carved into mountains.
- Who was Piankhi? What did he do?
- He was the Nubian King who conqured Egypt.
- Who was Sonni Ali? What did he do?
- He brought key trade routes and wealthy cities like Timbuktu.
- Who was Sundiata? What did he do?
- He was a brilliant military leader.
- The Nubian capital of Meroe was an important producer of ________.
- Iron ore
- What did King Ezana of Axum strengthen ties with the Mediterranean world?
- Christianity
- Slash-and-burn agriculture represents an adaptation to the environment.
- Yup.
- What group of people developed expert knowledge of the natural world by adapting to life in the Kalahari?
- The Khoisan people.
- In a patrilineal culture kinship ties cames through the _______ side.
- Father's
- The griots of West Africa preserved _______ traditions.
- history and traditional folk tale
- Who set up a Muslim dynasty in Songhai?
- Asika Muhammad
- The kingdom of _______ had a port on the Red Sea.
- Axum
- _______ was the ruler who made a hajj that resulted in trading and diplomatic ties between Mali and other Muslim states.
- Mansa Musa
- Axum prospered partly because it had a port on the _______.
- Red Sea
- _______ was the religious tradition that the Axumites passed on to the Ethiopians.
- Christianity
- How did the Khoisan people adapt to the Kalahari environment?
- They gathered edible plants and herbs and hunted small game.
- _______ is when people trace their inheritance and descent through their mother's side.
- Matrilineal
- "And when he sits before the people, he puts on a high capdecorated with gold and wrapped in turbans of fine cotton." Which kingdom, whose ruler is described in the quote above was called, "Land of gold"?
- Ghana
- "The man spread upon Cario the flood of his generosity." Whose visit to Egypt on the way to Mecca is described in the quote above?
- Mansa Musa
- _______ is where Christian churches were carved into the mountains?
- Ethiopia
- Griots strengthened West African societies by _______.
- They fostered a sence of community and common values amoung peoples of Africa.
- Describe the results of Mansa Musa's hajj.
- Mansa Musa showed his devotion to Islam, forged new trading and diplomatic ties with Muslim states, returned home with scholars and artists, and showed word of Mali's great wealth.