Chapter 07 Early African Civilizations

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societies where descent is traced through the mother, not the father

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matrilineal

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Owned the "fleets of the desert"

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Berbers

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The largest of the West African empires was

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Songhai

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Launched an invasion of Kush and conquered it

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King Ezana

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Islam was slow to spread in East Africa because

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many of Islam's beliefs conflicted with traditional African beliefs

Question 6

Which of the following are aromatic tree resins?

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myrrh, frankincense

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About 40% of the African continent is covered by

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the savannas containing grasslands, shrubs and small trees.

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What is this geographical region called?

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Sahara

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This covers 10% of the African continent

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rain forest

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Polytheism is

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belief in more than one god

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People who believe that have the ability to foretell events

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Diviners

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Why was Timbuktu important?

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All of the above

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Name of the people in Ghana that worshipped Nyame and a group of lesser gods

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Ashanti

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the "lion prince"

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Sundiata Keita

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Storytellers who orally passed along African history

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Griots

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Why was west Africa susceptible to the European slave trade?

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Close to the Atlantic

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First major trading state located in the upper Niger River valley

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Ghana

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Kush did all of the following EXCEPT

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build pyramids

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The two materials that were traded most often in West Africa were:

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Gold and salt

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A group of independent villages organized by clans and led by a local ruler or clan head

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stateless society

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Salt was important for West African trade because of all of the following EXCEPT

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it is rare.

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the Songhai Empire reached the height of its power during his reign

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Muhammad Ture

Question 23

The Egyptians used this technology to bring water to their crops:

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Irrigation

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Infects both animals and humans with sleeping sickness

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tsetse flies

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Mansa Musa was the king of which West African Kingdom?

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Mali

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Societies in which descent is traced through the father, not the mother

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patrilineal

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Storytellers who orally passed along African history are called

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griots

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Axum owed much of its prosperity to

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its location on the Red Sea

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Mali's famous trading city

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Timbuktu

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The official religion of Axum was

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Christianity, first brought by shipwrecked Syrians

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The largest desert on Earth

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Sahara

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Music and storytelling were

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used to pass along a community's history

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Name this river

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Nile

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The Nok culture is the oldest known culture in West Africa to

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have created sculpture

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The savannah can be described as:

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Grassland

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Ancestors were a key element in African religion because

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ancestors were believed to be closer to the gods

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After _____, African is the largest of the continents

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Asia

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What is this river called?

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Niger River

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Emerged as an independent trading state that combined Arab and African cultures

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Axum

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The center of Kush

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Meroë

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Kush declined because of the rise of

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Axum, a new power located in the highlands of what is now Ethiopia

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The Bantu communities were based on

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subsistance farming

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Altogether, deserts cover about ____ % of Africa.

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40

Chapter 07 Early African Civilizations

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Chapter 07 Early African Civilizations

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