Civilizations of Africa

Kilwa was a Muslim city that thrived because of ___.

Most of the gold that was brought to the Swahili city-states came from around

A group of families who trace their roots to the same ancestor is a ___.

The two most important products that were traded in West Africa were gold and ___.

Historians study the Bantu migrations by examining ___.

Kilwa was a(n) ____, having its own independent government and controlling the land around it.

The Bantu migration lasted for ___.

The port cities of East Africa traded with ___.

What item did the people of West Africa usually trade to get salt?

Cut off from the rest of the world, Ethiopians developed their own form of __.

What did Sundiata accomplish?

The Bantu-speaking people migrated because they were looking for ___.

___ was the first West African kingdom based on the gold and salt trade.

___ was one of the most important kingdoms of the West African forests.

much of the area north and south of Africa's rain forests is ____, a rolling grassland.

Muslim scholars in the empire of Mali taught students ___.

Not even physical barriers can stop a great ____ or movement of people.

Africa's rain forests are located on either side of the ___.

Mansa Musa wanted Mali to be a leading center of ___.

A Bantu language with Arabic words, spoken along the East African coast  is ___.

What is the largest desert in Africa and in the world?

During the AD 300s, what became the official religion of Aksum?

Stories passed down by word of mouth are ___.

The people who finally drove the rulers of Aksum from the coast of Africa were ___.

What did the Bantu-speaking people spread across Africa as they migrated?