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11.1 Africa & the Bantu
11.1 Africa & the Bantu
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Sub-Saharan African Geography
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What famous trade route was established during the Han Dynasty?
The East-West Trail
The Middle Passage
Indian Spice Route
The Silk Road
2
What were ancient African storytellers called?
Bantus
Griots
Swahili
Hakuna Matata
3
Who was the famous King of Aksum during their golden age of expansion?
King Ezana
King Pumba
King Bantu
Mansa Musa
4
What did the Bantu-speaking people spread across Africa as they migrated?
bronze-making skills
Christianity
Islam
their language and culture
5
What religion did King Ezana and the Kingdom of Aksum convert to?
Hinduism
Christianity
Islam
Judaism
6
What are stupas?
a holy book
Hun bow and arrow
shrines honring Buddha
type of elephant
7
Popular belief system in early African cultures that spirits lived in all living and non living things.
Daoism
Animism
Buddhism
Jainism
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What skills did the Nok people have?
Paper making
Pottery and iron making
Numchuck
Gun powder
9
What impact did the Gupta mathematicians have on civilization?
Very few advances in math
Developed the calculator
Euclidean geometry
Pi, infinity, zero
10
What was the first empire of India?
Gupta
Aryan
Sanskrit
Mauryan
11
The Kingdom of Aksum is only 1 of 3 African Kingdoms to have what?
A religion
Running water
Writing System
Electricity
12
What did the Han's do to keep out northern invaders?
Increased his army
Set up land mines
Set up an alliance system
Built the Great Wall
13
Accounts of the past that people pass down by word of mouth is called
oral history
clan
migration
Kalahari
14
The kingdom of Aksum used this farming technique to overcome the mountainous terrain.
Plantation Farming
3 Field System
Terrace Farming
Slash and burn
15
The Bantu-speaking people migrated because they were looking for
the coast, so that they could trade.
better weather conditions.
better farmland and better grazing.
gold and salt.
16
The Bantu migration lasted for
about 1,000 years.
about 2 years.
about 5 months.
about 10 days.
17
Which statement best describes Africa’s physical geography?
It is mostly covered with rain forests.
It has wide coastal plains.
It is diverse with desert, savanna, and rainforest.
Much of it is semi-arid land called the Sahel
18
What was West Africa's earliest known culture?
Bantu
Nok people
Egpytians
Aksum
19
What is the largest desert in Africa and in the world?
Sahara
Kalahari
Namibian
Swahili
20
The Golden Age of India (also the 2nd Empire) refers to the
Gupta
Mauryan
Hellenistic
Indus Valley
21
Asoka adopted Buddhism after
seeing poverty in his kingdom
the collapse of the caste system
the brutal battle at Kalinga
7 years of wandering
22
What special skill did the Bantu have that they carried with them in their migrations?
speaking Arabic
reading and writing
leading caravans across the desert
working with iron
23
What was the East African Kingdom located on the horn of Africa, known for trade.
Swahili
Bantu
Nok
Aksum
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What is the geographic region just outside of the desert called?
Arctic
Savannah
Sahel
Plains
