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| 5631000727 | What are the five major geographical regions? | Northern and southern coasts, deserts, grasslands, savannas, rain forest | 0 | |
| 5631000728 | What is desertification? | the process by which fertile land becomes desert, typically as a result of drought, deforestation, or inappropriate agriculture. | 1 | |
| 5631000729 | What keeps most people out of the rain forest? | Tsetse fly | 2 | |
| 5631000730 | What was the common root language | Bantu | 3 | |
| 5631000731 | What happened as people migrate across Africa? | Adapted to its many climate and developed diverse culture | 4 | |
| 5631000732 | What are the benefits of a common root language? | People can share ideas | 5 | |
| 5631000733 | What was the basic unit of society? | Family | 6 | |
| 5631000734 | What is kinship? | Sharing of origin, in africa it s either patrilineal or matrilineal | 7 | |
| 5631000735 | Patrilineal | of, relating to, or based on relationship to the father or descent through the male line. | 8 | |
| 5631000736 | Matrilineal | of or based on kinship with the mother or the female line. | 9 | |
| 5631000737 | What is lineage? | or group of households who claimed a common ancestor. | 10 | |
| 5631000738 | Smaller African societies were often organized with | Power shared among a number of people rather than centralized int he hands of a single leader | 11 | |
| 5631000739 | Villages often made decisions by a process known as | consensus | 12 | |
| 5631000740 | South of the Sahara, many African groups developed systems of governing based on lineage. Not centralized | Stateless societies | 13 | |
| 5631000741 | What is an ancient lifestyle that is still used today in Africa? | Hunter gatherer | 14 | |
| 5631000742 | Before Islam and Christianity, what was the African religion | Polytheistic with one ultimate god, animistic, ancestor worship, | 15 | |
| 5631000743 | Merchants and Islam arrived via two routes | Trans Sahara and Indian | 16 | |
| 5631000744 | When did the trade increase? | Islam merchants | 17 | |
| 5631000745 | Where did west african merchants acquire gold? | Senegal River | 18 | |
| 5631000746 | Besides gold, what other items were wanted? | Ivory and slaves | 19 | |
| 5643768917 | What were some trading coastal cities before agriculture? | Kiowa, Malinda, and Mogadishu | 20 | |
| 5643768918 | What were the interregional trading countries with the coastal city? | India, southeast asia, and persia, greece, roman | 21 | |
| 5643768919 | What did Indian Ocean create? | Thriving Swahili city states | 22 | |
| 5643768920 | How did the Indian Ocean's wealth affect the architecture? | Buildings were made of stone and coral | 23 | |
| 5643768921 | West Africa | Ghana, Mali, Songhai | 24 | |
| 5643768922 | East Africa | Swahili's Coast and Zimbabwe | 25 | |
| 5643768923 | There was infrequent trade on the Sahara Desert until what? | Camels | 26 | |
| 5643768924 | In exchange for ivory and gold, what did the Muslims give to Ghana? | Salt, copper, cloth, and tools | 27 | |
| 5643768925 | What was Ghana's capital city? | Kumbai Saleh | 28 | |
| 5643768926 | Ghana's government | Centralized with nobles and a strong army equipped with iron weapons | 29 | |
| 5643768927 | How did the kings of Ghana keep gold's price from falling? | Preserve gold nuggets | 30 | |
| 5643768928 | What did the Ghana king think about chiefs? | As long as they made their payments, the king left them alone | 31 | |
| 5643768929 | What was Ghana's decline? | Wars with neighboring states | 32 | |
| 5643768930 | Who crossed the savanna for trade? | Soninke people | 33 | |
| 5643768931 | Means war chief | Ghana | 34 | |
| 5643768932 | Who managed the exchange of goods? | King's tax collector | 35 | |
| 5643768933 | Founder of Mali | Mande speaking people | 36 | |
| 5643768934 | How did Mali become more prosperous than Ghana? | They taxed nearly all other trade entering west Africa | 37 | |
| 5643768935 | Most of Mali's residents were | Farmers | 38 | |
| 5643768936 | Timbuktu and Gao were in | Mali | 39 | |
| 5643768937 | Timbuktu and Gao developed into | Centers of islamic life in the regions | 40 | |
| 5643768938 | Mali's founding ruler | Sudiata | 41 | |
| 5643768939 | How did Sundiata take power Ghana and the surrounding area? | Military campaigns | 42 | |
| 5643768940 | Most historians believe Sundiata was a | Muslim | 43 | |
| 5643768941 | Positive aspects of Sundiata's rule | Good administrators, promoted agriculture, and reestablished trade | 44 | |
| 5643768942 | Wat was Mali's capital | Niani | 45 | |
| 5643768943 | Who was In Battuta and why is he important? | Traveler of muslim countries and he wrote about his confusion for people not strictly following the quran | 46 | |
| 5643768944 | How was Songhai formed? | As people began to break away from Mali, Songhai moved east | 47 | |
| 5643768945 | Songhai's founding ruler | Sunni Ali | 48 | |
| 5643768946 | Excellent administrative of Songhai | Asia Muhammad | 49 | |
| 5643768947 | How did Songhai end? | They didn't have modern weapons like the Moroccans | 50 | |
| 5643768948 | How did Islam spread in north africa? | Conquest | 51 | |
| 5643768949 | How did islam spread south of the Sahara | Trade | 52 | |
| 5643768950 | Muslims were allowed to be in government and their ideas influenced much of African culture. What were the rules of converting? | While the king and mostly people converted, some people kept the traditional religious beliefs | 53 | |
| 5643768951 | To show their love for Christianity, what did Ethiopia do? | They built 11 massive churches | 54 | |
| 5643768952 | Why did Ethiopia's christianity develop differently? | Isolation | 55 | |
| 5643768953 | Famous Ethiopian king | King Lalibela | 56 | |
| 5643768954 | What is interesting about Ethiopian churches? | They were built in the ground | 57 | |
| 5643768955 | What language did Ethiopia develop? | Geez | 58 | |
| 5643768966 | What is Axum? | Previous civilization of Ethiopia, christian | 59 | |
| 5643768956 | What happened when Axum declined? | String commercial cities (Kilwa, Mogadishu, Mombasa, and Sofala) gradually arose along the eastern coast | 60 | |
| 5643768957 | How did the eastern coast cities learn to trade with Arabia, Persa, China, Asia, etc? | They learned the annual monsoon winds could carry sailing ships between india and africa | 61 | |
| 5643768958 | The successful East African international trade system led to the emergence of a vibrant culture and new language both known as . | Swahili | 62 | |
| 5643768959 | Zimbabwe was situated between the | Zambezi and Limpop rivers | 63 | |
| 5643768960 | Who did Zimbabwe trade with? | Swahili city states as well as Persia, India, and China | 64 | |
| 5643768961 | Just as Ghana, Zimbabwe also taxed what | Any gold that traveled through the land | 65 | |
| 5643768962 | In Zimbabwe, when the area became wealthy, chiefs constructed their --- out of stone | Zimbabwes | 66 | |
| 5643768963 | At the end of the 13th century, massive tone was surrounded which capital city | Great zimbabwe | 67 | |
| 5643768964 | How did the Great Zimbabwe reach its height in 1300? | Tapped nearby gold resources and created profitable commercial links with coastal cities such as Sofala | 68 | |
| 5643768965 | What caused Zimbabwe's decline? | population had grown too great, overgrazing, civil war, and dwindling trade | 69 | |
| 5646603570 | What is sahel? | Semidesert are right under the sahara | 70 | |
| 5646603571 | Why was it easy for most Africans to convert to Islam? | They believed in one supreme God | 71 | |
| 5646603572 | What was the Ghana tribe? | Soninke | 72 | |
| 5646603573 | Who did Ghana use as their bureaucrats | Nobles | 73 | |
| 5646603574 | In ghana, the leader was called Ghana which means | War chief | 74 | |
| 5646603575 | What was one of the biggest trading empires in the world? | Mali | 75 | |
| 5646603576 | Malinke merchants | Juula | 76 | |
| 5646603577 | What does Mali mean | Where the king lives | 77 | |
| 5646603578 | Songhai capital | Gao | 78 | |
| 5646603579 | Who was the great conqueror of the Songhai | Muhammad the great | 79 | |
| 5646603580 | Formed states following the demise of Songhai | Hausa | 80 | |
| 5646603581 | Kingdom on congo river, capital at Mbanza Kong | Kongo | 81 | |
| 5646603582 | Holiest city of the Yoruba-speaking peoples in Nigeria | Ife-Ife | 82 | |
| 5646603583 | Powerful city state in Nigeria, under the Yoruba | Benin | 83 | |
| 5646603584 | City states in swahili coast | Kilwa, mogadishu, mombasa, sofala | 84 | |
| 5646603585 | Swahili language | Mixed between Bantu and arab | 85 | |
| 5646603586 | Currency of Swahili coast | Gold coins | 86 | |
| 5646603587 | Ships used in Swahili coast | Dhows | 87 | |
| 5646603588 | Very prosperous trade, attacked by Portuguese in 1498 and destroyed | Kilwa | 88 | |
| 5646603589 | Great Zimbabwe religion | Did not accept islam, kept indigeneous religion | 89 | |
| 5646603590 | Great Zimbabwe tribe | Shona | 90 | |
| 5646603591 | Great Zimbabwe political | Centralized with bureaucrats, feudalism, | 91 | |
| 5646603592 | Currency of great Zimbabwe | Cattle | 92 |
