Chapter 12

Question 0

Savannas

Answer 0

Flat grassland in the tropics or subtropics with few, scattered trees

Question 1

Sahara

Answer 1

Large desert in Northern Africa

Question 2

Vegetation zone

Answer 2

Region that, because of its soil and climate, has distinctive types of plants

Question 3

Bantu-speaking peoples

Answer 3

West Africa peoples who shared a language family and gradually migrated eastward and southward

Question 4

Griots

Answer 4

Storytellers in African civillizations

Question 5

Kinship

Answer 5

Connection among people by blood, marriage or adoption

Question 6

Animism

Answer 6

Belief that souls or spirits exists in natural objects

Question 7

Ghana

Answer 7

Kingdom that existed from the 700 s to the 1000s in the region between the Sahara and the forests of southern Western Africa

Question 8

Almoravids

Answer 8

North Africa Islamic dynasty in the 1000s and 1100s that tried to forcibly convert neighboring peoples

Question 9

Mali

Answer 9

West Africa empire established by the Malinke people between the 1200s and 1500s

Question 10

Sundiata

Answer 10

Ruler of the Malinke people in the 1200s who greatly expanded mali’s empire

Question 11

Timbuktu

Answer 11

City of Mali, developed by sundiata in the 1200s as a center of trade and culture

Question 12

Mansa musa

Answer 12

Leader of the Mali empire from 1312 to about 1332

Question 13

Songhai

Answer 13

West Africa people whose leaders built a giant empire in the 1400s
And 1500s

Question 14

Asia Muhammad

Answer 14

Ruler of the Songhai empire from 1493 to 1528 who expanded the empire and organized its government

Question 15

Aksum

Answer 15

Empire along the Red Sea that controlled much of northern Ethiopia from the first to the eighth century

Question 16

Kilwa

Answer 16

Ancient city-state on the Eastern coast of Africa, settled by people from Arabia and Persia

Question 17

Swahili

Answer 17

African language that blends Bantu and Arabic elements

Question 18

Shona

Answer 18

Bantu-speaking culture that was thriving by 1000 in what is now Botswana, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe

Question 19

Great Zimbabwe

Answer 19

Central settlement of the Shona empire

Question 20

Kongo

Answer 20

A Bantu-speaking kingdom that arose in the 1300s in the Congo river region along african’s western coast

Question 21

Alfonso I

Answer 21

King of Kongo whose rule began in 1506 and who was influenced by the Portuguese