Vocabulary1

Question 1

1.savannah

Answer 1

a grassy plain in tropical and subtropical regions, with few trees.

Question 2

2.plateau

Answer 2

reach a state of little or no change after a time of activity or progress.
“the industry’s problems have plateaued out”

Question 3

3.sahara desert

Answer 3

a desert in N Africa, extending from the Atlantic to the Nile valley. About 3,500,000 sq. mi. (9,065,000 sq. km).
any arid waste.

Question 4

4.bantu

Answer 4

relating to or denoting a group of Niger–Congo languages spoken in central and southern Africa, including Swahili, Xhosa, and Zulu.
a group of Niger–Congo languages spoken in central and southern Africa, including Swahili, Xhosa, and Zulu.

Question 5

5.swahili

Answer 5

a Bantu language widely used as a lingua franca in East Africa and having official status in several countries.

a member of a people of Zanzibar and nearby coastal regions, descendants of the original speakers of Swahili.

Question 6

6.subsistence farming

Answer 6

Subsistence agriculture is self-sufficiency farming in which the farmers focus on growing enough food to feed themselves and their families. … The typical subsistence farm has a range of crops and animals needed by the family to feed and clothe themselves during the year.

Question 7

7.mansa musa

Answer 7

Mansa Musa (about 1280 – about 1337) was an emperor (mansa) of the Mali Empire during the 14th century. He became emperor in 1307. He was the first African ruler to be widely known throughout Europe and the Middle East. Mansa Musa was the great nephew of Sundiata Keita, who was founder of the empire.

Question 8

8.ghana

Answer 8

A country of West Africa, with its southern coastline bordering on the Atlantic Ocean; population 23,887,800 (est. 2009); languages, English (official), West African languages; capital, Accra. Former name (until 1957) gold coast.

Question 9

9.mali

Answer 9

A country of western Africa. The site of several powerful states, including the Mali (flourished 14th century) and the Songhai (flourished 15th–16th century), Mali became part of French West Africa in the 19th century and achieved independence in 1960. Bamako is the capital and the largest city.

Question 10

10.zimbabwe

Answer 10

Formerly Southern Rhodesia, Rhodesia. a republic in S Africa: a former British colony and part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland; gained independence 1980. 150,330 sq. mi. (389,362 sq. km).

Question 11

11.timbuktu

Answer 11

a town in central Mali, W Africa, near the Niger River.

Question 12

12.mohammed

Answer 12

Muhammad (Mohammed) The Arab founder of Islam, Muhammad is held by Muslims to be the chief prophet of God. He was born in Mecca. Muslims believe that the Koran was dictated to him by an angel sent from God.

Question 13

13.askia

Answer 13

Askia Muhammad I (ca. 1443 – 1538), 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 in the late 15th century, the successor of Sunni Ali Ber.

Question 14

14.sonni Alí

Answer 14

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

15.matrilineal

Answer 15

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

Question 16

16.oral traditions

Answer 16

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

17.gold and salt trade

Answer 17

Camel caravans from North Africa carried bars of salt as well as cloth, tobacco, and metal tools across the Sahara to trading centers like Djenne and Timbuktu on the Niger River. Some items for which the salt was traded include gold, ivory, slaves, skins, kola nuts, pepper, and sugar.

Question 18

18.trans - Saharan

Answer 18

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

19.sub saharan

Answer 19

from or forming part of the African regions south of the Sahara desert.

Question 20

20.songhai

Answer 20

a member of a people living mainly in Niger and Mali.

the Nilo-Saharan language of the Songhai.

Question 21

21.griot

Answer 21

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

Question 22

22.diviner

Answer 22

of, from, or like God or a god.
“heroes with divine powers”
synonyms: godly, angelic, seraphic, saintly, beatific; More

informaldated
excellent; delightful.
“that succulent clementine tasted divine”

Question 23

23.lineage

Answer 23

lineal descent from an ancestor; ancestry or pedigree.

Question 24

24. IBn batuta

Answer 24

Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta, was a Moroccan Muslim scholar and traveler. He is known for his traveling and going on excursions called the Rihla. His journeys lasted for a period of almost thirty years.

Question 25

25.indian ocean

Answer 25

an ocean S of Asia, E of Africa, and W of Australia. 28,357,000 sq. mi. (73,444,630 sq. km).

Question 26

26.sahel

Answer 26

The Sahel (/səˈhɛl/) is the ecoclimatic and biogeographic zone of transition in Africa between the Sahara to the north and the Sudanian Savanna (historically known as the Sudan region) to the south.