CH 8 Africa

What two items were critical to trade in West Africa?

What element connected Africans to their culture?

What geographic feature stopped the Bantu people from migrating North?

Mansa Musa was from

Africa's longest river is the

Which animal helped transform trade in Africa?

What was the purpose of Mansa Musa's hajj?

Mansa Musa built many

Which of the following genres of music was not inspired by African music?

Where was the empire of Axum?

Africa is the ____ largest continent

Although many empires had Timbuktu, this empire made Timbuktu an important site

Which of the following describes Ibn Battuta?

Which city in Africa became a center of Islamic culture?

What people group started trade in Africa?

Why did African Kingdoms in the rain forest prosper?

What style of music was originated by African-American slaves?

What river was crucial to civilization in West Africa?

Which of the following is NOT a reasons for Ghana's success?

Almost all of Africa lies on

How did the location of Ghana make it successful?

This empire was in East Africa?

What are griots?

Which African group were wanderers?

This was the first empire to thrive off the trade of gold and salt

Which empire took over the empire of Ghana?

What country was the first to trade African slaves?

Swahili is

The capital of ancient Zimbabwe was known as _______ Zimbabwe

Traditional African Religion believed in all of the following EXCEPT

Who is Sunni Ali?