World History, Chapter 7 Review

True / False: Ghanaians traded salt in exchange for gold.

Many African societies were matrilineal, meaning

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

________ was the first trading state in West Africa.

__________ were crucial to trade across the Sahara.

A word meaning “king”

ruler who conquered Kush

The Nok culture is the oldest known West African culture to have created ____________.

_________ made a pilgrimage to Makkah (Mecca) during his reign.

In Muslim societies in Southwest _______, slaves might at some point win their freedom.

The African rain forest is home to

Weapons made from this material were superior in early Africa.

Which ruler transformed Timbuktu into a center of Islamic learning and culture?

The earliest forms of art in Africa were _____________

Islam was slow to spread in East Africa because

This high-yield crop was grown for food by the migrating Bantus.

Swahili

The Bantu communities were based on

Which of the following is the largest desert on Earth?

The official religion of Axum by around A.D. 300 was

The _______ conquered Egypt in 750 B.C.

Under whose reign did Songhai become the largest empire in African history?

The Kushites traded iron products, ivory, gold, ebony, and slaves to the Roman Empire for

The _________spread iron-smelting techniques across Africa.

highly desired trade item for Ghanaians

Farming peoples who spoke dialects of the ____ family of languages moved into East Africa.

Mali built its wealth and power through the trade of

Which is a group of villages organized by clans and led by a local ruler or clan head?

______________ was the wealthiest and most powerful state in South Africa.

About 40 percent of Africa’s land area is covered by

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

relatively high, flat land areas

last powerful ruler of Mali

The African tsetse fly causes what sickness?

King Ezana converted to

A special class of ____ believed they had the power to foretell events.

nomadic Sahara traders

True / False: Songhai was invaded by forces of the sultan of Cairo.

Africa's culture of paintings, carvings, sculptures, music and dance served ________ purposes.

Music and storytelling were

The walls of the Great Enclosure at Great Zimbabwe are thick. What was the purpose of it?

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

Slaves included all of the following EXCEPT

The area of Africa that juts into the Atlantic Ocean is the

After ____, Africa is the largest of the continents.

True / False. The city of Meroë had abundant iron ore resources.

a fragrant tree resin

What language was spoken in Kilwa, Mombasa, and Mogadishu?

The Berber camel caravans became known as the

Islamic culture was spread in Mali by

Altogether, deserts cover about ____ percent of Africa.

Kush declined because of the rise of

an export of Axum

Ancestors were a key element in African religion because

people in Ghana who worshipped Nyame and a group of lesser gods

All members of a lineage group claimed descent from

second largest desert in Africa

True / False: Swahili was a mixture of Bantu and Indian.

Axum was founded by

True / False: The Great Rift Valley is in the Congo Basin.

The people of Ghana often traded their gold for

The Songhai Empire reached the height of its power during the reign of ___________.

All of the following are eastern African port cities EXCEPT

Mali was established in the mid-thirteenth century by

meeting with the king

Axum owed much of its prosperity to

Most African societies believed in which of the following?

Competition for this resource caused Axum to conquer Kush.

united the people of Mali

growing just enough food for personal use

broad grasslands in Africa

What are Africa’s four distinct climate zones?

The Swahili language arose as due to ______ between people from Arab lands and the Bantu people

Most African women did all of the following EXCEPT

Wood carvings often represented