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When slaves were stolen from their
country, they took their culture with
them.
Vocabulary 100
What is African Diaspora?
Refers to the language and culture of East Africa. Means "people of the coast"
Vocabulary 200
What is Swahili?
Person who passes down customs,
history, legend art, and poetry through
storytelling.
Vocabulary 300
Who is a griot?
A person who communicated with the spirit world and helped people to interact with
their gods.
Vocabulary 400
Who is a diviner?
The relationship among family members.
Vocabulary 500
What is kinship?
The lion prince, ruled from 1230-1255, and seized the capital of
Ghana in 1240.
Important People 100
Who is Sundiata?
Mali’s greatest ruler. He went on a hajj with
a huge caravan, and brought back
architects, scholars, etc.
Important People 200
Who is Mansa Musa?
This leader of Songhai ruled in
1468, and drove the Berbers out of
Timbuktu.
Important People 300
Who is Sunni Ali?
A young Arab lawyer from Morocco, who set out in 1325 to see the Muslim
world, and traveled throughout their lands for
almost 30 years.
Important People 400
Who is Ibn Battuta?
Ruled the lands in what is now Angola and the
Congo, and spent almost 40 years battling the
Portuguese slave traders.
Important People 500
Who is Queen Nzinga?
Two items that were traded the most.
Trading 100
What are gold and salt?
Type of trade that occurred between two groups that never met
face to face.
Trading 200
What is silent barter?
Portuguese wanted these from Africa.
Trading 300
What are slaves?
The Atlantic Slave Trade spanned these
three continents.
Trading 400
What are North America, South America and Africa?
Salt was important to West Africans for
these three reasons.
Trading 500
What is salt is needed to keep a body healthy, and the West
Africans used it to flavor and preserve their food.
Mansa Musa ruled this empire, and doubled its size.
Trade Empires 100
What is Mali?
First West African trading empire. A place where trade
routes came together.
Trade Empires 200
What is Ghana?
The king of this empire made Christianity the
official religion.
Trade Empires 300
What is Axum?
This empire gained control of African trade
by conquering Timbuktu.
Trade Empires 400
What is Songhai?
Trade Empires 500
This city arose on the East African coast after Arab Muslim traders sailed to
Africa.
What is Zimbabwe?
Strip of dry grassland on the southern
border of the Sahara Desert.
Location 100What is the sahel?
Main mountain range in Africa.
Location 200
What are the Atlas Mountains?
The two major rivers in West Africa.
Location 300
What is the Niger and Senegal Rivers?
The four different regions of Africa
from north to south.
Location 400
What is desert, sahel, savanna and rain forest?
Tallest mountain in Africa.
Location 500
What is Mt. Kilimanjaro?
Ghana’s empire was divided into THESE, ruled by lesser kings
or conquered leaders.
Kinship & Succession 100
What are provinces?
In Ghana, the king was succeeded by this
person.
Kinship & Succession 200
Who is his sister’s son (or his nephew)?
Many African villages were THIS, meaning the people
traced their ancestors through their mothers rather than their
fathers.
Kinship & Succession 300
What is matrilineal?
Women’s roles were mainly as THIS and THIS, though
there were some exceptions.
Kinship & Succession 400
What are wives and mothers?
Describe the relationship between
African kings and merchants.
Kinship & Succession 500
What is merchants paid taxes to the king and received favors from him
in exchange?
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Islam in Africa
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How did Africans change/adapt Islam?
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West Africans who became Muslims began praying to God in Arabic. They built mosques as
places of worship. Yet they also continued to pray to the spirits of their ancestors, as they had done
for centuries.
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