African Civilization

Question 1

Savannah

Answer 1

A savanna is a rolling grassland scattered with shrubs and isolated trees, which can be found between a tropical rainforest and desert biome.

Question 2

Plateau

Answer 2

an area of relatively level high ground.

Question 3

Sahara Desert

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The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world, and the third largest desert in the world after Antarctica and the Arctic.

Question 4

Bantu

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Bantu peoples is used as a general label for the 300–600 ethnic groups in Africa who speak Bantu languages. They inhabit a geographical area stretching east and southward from Central Africa across the African Great Lakes region down to Southern Africa.

Question 5

Swahili

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Swahili, also known as Kiswahili, is a Bantu language and the first language of the Swahili people.

Question 6

Subsistence Farming

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Subsistence agriculture is self-sufficiency farming in which the farmers focus on growing enough food to feed themselves and their families. The output is mostly for local requirements with little or no surplus for trade.

Question 7

Mansa Munsa

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Musa Keita I was the tenth Mansa, which translates as “sultan” or “emperor”, of the wealthy West African Mali Empire.

Question 8

Ghana

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Ghana, a nation on West Africa’s Gulf of Guinea, is known for diverse wildlife, old forts and secluded beaches, such as at Busua.

Question 9

Mali

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Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa. Mali is the eighth-largest country in Africa, with an area of just over 1,240,000 square kilometres.

Question 10

Zimbabwe

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Zimbabwe is a landlocked country in southern Africa known for its dramatic landscape and diverse wildlife, much of it within parks, reserves and safari areas.

Question 11

Timbuktu

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Timbuktu, also spelled as Tinbuktu, Timbuctoo and Timbuktoo, is a historical and still-inhabited city in the West African nation of Mali, situated 20 km north of the River Niger on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert.

Question 12

Mohammed

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Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdullāh ibn Abdul-Muttalib ibn Hashim, in short form Muhammad, is considered by Muslims to be the last messenger and prophet sent by God to guide humanity to the right way

Question 13

Aski

Answer 13

Askia Muhammad I, born Muhammad Ture or Mohamed Toure in Futa Tooro, later called Askia, also known as Askia the Great, was an emperor, military commander, and political reformer of the Songhai Empire

Question 14

Sonni Ali

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Sunni Ali, also known as Sunni Ali Ber, was born Ali Kolon. He reigned from about 1464 to 1492. Sunni Ali was the first king of the Songhai Empire, located in Africa and the 15th ruler of the Sonni dynasty

Question 15

Matrilineal

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of or based on kinship with the mother or the female line.

Question 16

Oral Tradition

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Oral tradition is information passed down through the generations by word of mouth that is not written down. This includes historical and cultural traditions, literature and law.

Question 17

Gold and Salt Trade

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The kingdom of Ghana did not have gold mines or salt mines, but Ghana got rich handling the trade of gold for salt.

Question 18

Trans-Sahara

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Jump to: navigation, search. Trans Saharan Trade requires travel across the Sahara (north and south) to reach sub-Saharan Africa from the North African coast, Europe, to the Levant. While existing from prehistoric times, the peak of trade extended from the 8th century until the early 17th century.

Question 19

Songhai

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The Songhai Empire was a state that dominated the western Sahel in the 15th and 16th century. At its peak it was one of the largest states in African history.

Question 20

Griot

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a member of a class of traveling poets, musicians, and storytellers who maintain a tradition of oral history in parts of West Africa.

Question 21

Diviner

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of, from, or like God or a god.

Question 22

Lineage

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lineal descent from an ancestor; ancestry or pedigree.

Question 23

Ibn-Buttuta

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Ibn Baṭūṭah, or simply Muhammad Ibn Battuta, was a Medieval Moroccan Muslim traveler and scholar, who is widely recognised as one of the greatest travelers of all time.

Question 24

Indian ocean

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The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world’s oceanic divisions, covering 70,560,000 km².

Question 25

Sahel

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The Sahel is the ecoclimatic and biogeographic zone of transition in Africa between the Sahara to the north and the Sudanian Savanna to the south.