Chap 10 Class Quiz

Question 1

What is the Sahel?

Answer 1

A strip of land that divides the desert from wetter areas

Question 2

What is the savanna?

Answer 2

an open grassland

Question 3

What is the Sahara

Answer 3

a desert

Question 4

What religion has played central role in Ehtiopia’s history?

Answer 4

Christianity

Question 5

What are griots

Answer 5

African storytellers

Question 6

Which African civilization used Ge’ez as its language?

Answer 6

Aksum

Question 7

Swahili is a blend of a Bantu language and which other language?

Answer 7

Arabic

Question 8

Lalibela was a great king in which African kingdom

Answer 8

Ethiopia

Question 9

Invasions by which civilization isolated Aksum and led to its downfall

Answer 9

Muslims

Question 10

What was the focus of Sunni Ali’s reign

Answer 10

War

Question 11

What was the earliest European nation to begin trading with Benin

Answer 11

Portugal

Question 12

What did not form part of Sunni Ali’s army

Answer 12

Trained lions

Question 13

The reign of which leader is considered the golden age of Songhai

Answer 13

Askia Muhammad

Question 14

What was not something produced frequently within Africa

Answer 14

Silk

Question 15

The Nok people, who were the first to use iron in Africa, lived where?

Answer 15

Nigeria