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Jeopardy

Jeopardy. Farming is difficult in this region in Africa because rainfall is uncertain. What is the Sahel. This is a vast area of dry grassland. What is a savanna. . What 2 major natural regions of Sub-Sahara?. Grasslands & Rain Forests.

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Jeopardy

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  1. Jeopardy

  2. Farming is difficult in this region in Africa because rainfall is uncertain.

  3. What is the Sahel.

  4. This is a vast area of dry grassland.

  5. What is a savanna.

  6. What 2 major natural regions of Sub-Sahara?

  7. Grasslands & Rain Forests

  8. A family of related languages that is one of Africa’s largest language groups.

  9. What is Bantu.

  10. An East African language that has Persian and Arabian influences.

  11. What is Swahili.

  12. A king of Aksum whose religious conversion helped Christianity become a powerful influence in Eastern Africa.

  13. Who is King Ezana.

  14. The Muslim ruler of Mali whose travels made others aware of West African power and wealth.

  15. Who is Mansa Musa.

  16. A Songhai ruler who helped turn his kingdom into a center of trade and learning.

  17. Who is Mohammad I Askia.

  18. A people who settled in what is now Zimbabwe

  19. Who are the Shona.

  20. They were skilled storytellers who memorized oral traditions.

  21. Who are griots.

  22. The first kingdom to develop in West Africa.

  23. What is Ghana.

  24. West African kingdoms traded gold in return for this.

  25. What is salt.

  26. This city was the center for learning in Sub-Saharan Africa in the 1300s & 1400s.

  27. What is Timbuktu.

  28. This religion spread to West Africa due to trade.

  29. What is Islam.

  30. What 3 kingdoms developed in West Africa and put them in order.

  31. Ghana, Mali, Songhai.

  32. Name at least 2 groups of people that traded with East Africa.

  33. Who are Arabs, Indonesians, and Persians.

  34. Trade brought this religion to East Africa.

  35. What is Islam.

  36. Mombasa and Mogadishu are major cities in this East African kingdom.

  37. What are the Swahili States.

  38. The main source of information about early African society is from this.

  39. What is oral traditions.

  40. What were some items Africans exported and imported from East Africa?

  41. Export: gold, ivory, hides, tortoise shells, slavesImport: porcelain, weapons, tools, cloth

  42. What was the main reason Aksum became a prosperous kingdom?

  43. Trade routes from the Red Sea into Egypt and Africa passed through it.

  44. Which ancient African kingdom conquered part of Egypt and copied its culture by building pyramids?

  45. What is the Kush.

  46. A prosperous African kingdom that declined after A.D. 150, possibly because its land was no longer fertile.

  47. What is the Kush.

  48. The king of this kingdom converted to Christianity and made it the religion of the kingdom.

  49. What is Aksum.

  50. They were the primary farmers in African societies.

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