Africa

Question 1

Rainforests make up —- —- – of the land in Africa.

Answer 1

less than 5%

Question 2

What is the biggest & most populated climate zone in Africa?

Answer 2

Savanna or grassy plains

Question 3

How was the soil in Africa?

Answer 3

Soil is OK for farming

Question 4

Will people living here develop from a culture into a civilization? Why or why not?

Answer 4

People living here are therefore subsistent, and will likely never develop from a culture into a civilization.

Question 5

What agriculture technique was used in Africa?

Answer 5

Slash-and-burn agriculture used

Question 6

What is a difficult environmental challenge in Africa?

Answer 6

Sometimes there are long droughts

Question 7

The tsetse fly did what?

Answer 7

Transmits African sleeping sickness; which is a sickness gradually raises your temperature until you die.

Question 8

Deserts-

Answer 8

Sahara in the north & Kalahari in the south

Question 9

Where was the fertile land in Africa?

Answer 9

Fertile farmland in north & south coasts

Question 10

Once people domesticated ——, they were able to traverse desert landscapes

Answer 10

camels

Camels store fat—for energy—in their humps

Question 11

Africa has a regular coastline=

Answer 11

hard to find a good place to dock boats

Question 12

Rivers-

Answer 12

Nile, Congo, Niger, Zambezi were the four main rivers

Question 13

Dangers of African Rivers-

Answer 13

Their currents would collide and create whirlpools

They had cataracts consisting of rapids and waterfalls — made travel hard

Question 14

Palisades-

Answer 14

Africa has palisades — large, steep insurmountable cliffs of land

Question 15

Resources in Africa-

Answer 15

Ivory, salt, gold, copper, diamonds, iron, oil

Question 16

People switched from Paleolithic →

Answer 16

Neolithic

Question 17

Ideas spread from which major river?

Answer 17

The Nile

Question 18

Desertification-

Answer 18

The spreading of the desert

Meaning people are forced to move

Question 19

Contributors to the making of deserts-

Answer 19

Bad farming practices (i.e., slash and burn), overgrazing, and lack of rainfall are all contributors to the making of deserts.

Thousands of acres of land become desert every year

Question 20

Deserts definition-

Answer 20

Deserts are places devoid of vegetation

Question 21

Most important thing that The Bantu in West Africa did-

Answer 21

The Bantu in West Africa spread many ideas as they travelled and displaced native tribes

They spread all throughout Africa

They taught people how to farm and how to make iron

Question 22

As the desert dried out, people-

Answer 22

moved and settled on the western Savanna

Question 23

They became sedentary when they-

Answer 23

achieved surplus — this lead to the development of trade, conquest and cultural diffusion

Question 24

The north had —-, and the west had —-

Answer 24

salt/gold

Question 25

Salt value

Answer 25

Salt preserved and cured food — and helped people survive, so it was invaluable

Question 26

The silent trade-

Answer 26

Literally just silently negotiated the amount of gold and salt traded Gold and salt would be added in piles—not proportional, but fair—until both sides felt content The vendors would never come in contact with each other, and they’d inspect the piles and add and subtract from their respective piles as negotiation. Started with the Sonnike and other Central African tribes trading with northern tribes

Question 27

What was a King linked to in Africa?

Answer 27

King was a semi-divine being who kept order (Like how the egyptians linked themselves to Ra, or how the Qin had divine mandates)

Question 28

After Ghana was attacked by the Ahmurabids,

Answer 28

the Kingdom of Mali rose to power (1100s)

Question 29

What was the status of Women in the Kingdom of Mali?

Answer 29

Women had high status

Question 30

Mali was founded by ---------

Answer 30

Sundiatta (he took the the title of Mansa — meaning king)

Question 31

Who was greatest ruler of Mali? What did they contribute?

Answer 31

Mansa Musa was the greatest ruler of Mali He converted to Islam & based his laws on the Quran (sometimes spelled as Koran)

Question 32

Mansa Musa made a pilgrimage to -----

Answer 32

Mecca — In modern day Saudi Arabia

Question 33

What did Mansa Musa take with him on his pilgrimage?

Answer 33

He took around 500 men, a camel per man, and a lot of gold

Question 34

What did Mansa Musa do to Cairo?

Answer 34

During this journey, Mansa Musa went with “pocket gold” to Cairo, and paid everyone in large sums This devalued gold and wrecked Cairo’s economy for around a decade This is an incredible feat as Cairo is an incredibly developed city around this time

Question 35

What was the global reaction to the Kingdom of Mali's wealth?

Answer 35

After seeing the immense wealth of the Mali empire, all the best of the brainpower in the Islamic world moved to Timbuktu, the capital of Mali in hopes of great payment This was the long term impact of Mansa Musa’s Hajj

Question 36

Mansa Musa had a successor. True or False?

Answer 36

False Mali fell to disputes over Mansa Musa’s successor

Question 37

Sonni Ali —

Answer 37

built the largest state in West Africa

Question 38

Who usurped Sonni’s son?

Answer 38

Askia Muhammad usurped Sonni’s son His name (Askia) literally means usurper Askia also followed Sonni’s son and became Muslim

Question 39

Timbuktu became a major center of Muslim learning because of -----

Answer 39

Askia

Question 40

Songhai, The Grassland Peoples was located-

Answer 40

along the bend in the Niger River.

Question 41

Two leaders of Songhai

Answer 41

Sonni Ali Askia

Question 42

What lead to the fall of Songhai?

Answer 42

Songhai fell in 1586 when it was attacked by forces from Morocco Other Kingdoms of West Africa

Question 43

Hausa —

Answer 43

Independent city states that never united

Question 44

Benin —

Answer 44

A forest kingdom in the Guinea Coast