Chapter 11

Question 0

A grassy plain

Answer 0

Savanna

Question 1

The largest desert in the world, covering almost all of North America

Answer 1

Sahara

Question 2

Waterfall

Answer 2

Cataract

Question 3

The process by which a desert spreads, often caused by climate change

Answer 3

Desertification

Question 4

The root language of a diverse group of West African people who migrated into Southern Africa between 1000 B.C and A.D. 1000

Answer 4

Bantu

Question 5

An ancient kingdom that flourished in present-day Sudan at the same time as the ancient Egyptians, from about 2700 B.C. to A.D. 350. Was invaded by the South of the kingdom of Axum in A.D. 350

Answer 5

Nubia

Question 6

the Nubian capital after 500 B.C., which controlled the Nile’s north-south trade route and the east-west trade route from the Red Sea to North Africa. People mastered iron working and the city became a trade center

Answer 6

Meroë

Question 7

More of something than is needed

Answer 7

Surplus

Question 8

Valuable product

Answer 8

Commodity

Question 9

A kingdom created around 800 A.D. In the V made by the Niger and Senegal river

Answer 9

Ghana

Question 10

The sole survivor, according to tradition, of the Mandinka people who founded the empire of Mali by 1235

Answer 10

Sundiata

Question 11

An empire in Africa founded in 1235 in the upper Niger River region

Answer 11

Mali

Question 12

The greatest ruler of the kingdom of Mali, who came to throne in 1312 and led for 25 years. Conquered additional territory and converted Islam. Made the pilgrimage to Mecca and brought back Muslims scholars and architects to Mali

Answer 12

Mansa Musa

Question 13

A kingdom that developed in the 1460s at the bend in the Niger River

Answer 13

Songhai

Question 14

Trading center, and powerful ancient kingdom in northern present-day Ethiopia. Converted to Christianity in the 300s. This conversion strengthened the kingdom’s ties with North Africa and Mediterranean. However when Islam spread in the 600s, _____ became isolated and declined

Answer 14

Axum

Question 15

an Axum port city on the Red Sea, one of two major cities in the kingdom that commanded a trade network in the region

Answer 15

Adulis

Question 16

A Greek term used by Axumite kings to refer to their kingdom

Answer 16

Ethiopia

Question 17

The ruler of Ethiopia in the early 1200s

Answer 17

King Lalibela

Question 18

an East African language and culture that emerged by the 1000s from a combination of African, Asian, and Arabic influences

Answer 18

Swahili

Question 19

powerful East African medieval trade center and city-state between 900 and 1500. Located in southern present-day Zimbabwe

Answer 19

Great Zimbabwe

Question 20

Parents and children living and working together as a unit

Answer 20

Nuclear Family

Question 21

A family system in which important kinship ties such as inheritance are passed through the father side

Answer 21

Patrilineal

Question 22

A group whose members claim the same ancestry

Answer 22

Lineage

Question 23

General agreement

Answer 23

Consensus

Question 24

A professional storyteller who recited ancient stories in West Africa

Answer 24

Griot

Question 25

Ghana

Answer 25

Notable City: Kumbi Saleh

Years: 800-1050

Question 26

Mali

Answer 26

Notable City: Timbuktu

Years: 1235- 1400s

Question 27

Songhai

Answer 27

Notable City: GAO

Years: 1464- 1591

Question 28

A family system in which inheritance is passed through the mother’s side

Answer 28

Matrilineal

Question 29

Worshipped their own gods and developed their own form of writing

Answer 29

Nubians