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Maize is also known as what crop? (in America)
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What natural product in ancient Africa was mined and developed independently of other countries?
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Maize is also known as what crop? (in America)
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What natural product in ancient Africa was mined and developed independently of other countries?
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This body of water is located north of Africa:
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Large area of flat grasslands with few trees:
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The wide strip of land between the Sahara and the savannah:
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Modified True/False: In Africa, money served as a sign of wealth and prosperity.
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Modified True/False: Most African religions did not promote belief in a supreme being.
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Supreme being of the Kikuyu people:
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What is the belief that spirits live in objects in nature, including air?
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The name of the clan that believed in one god:
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What kingdom was located on the Nile River between Egypt and Ethiopia?
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What name did the Greeks give to Aksum and all the territories south of it?
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Coptic Christians regard Menelik as the offspring of what king of Israel?
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What has been the imperial title of Ethiopian rulers that denotes their connection to the people of Israel?
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Ethiopian legend states that the cathedral at Aksum contained what Christian artifact?
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What slave captured by Ethiopians introduced Coptic Christianity to Ethiopia?
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In what village were several churches carved out of rock underground?
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What is unusual about the churches at Lalibela?
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Lalibela is a sacred destination for pilgrims of what religion?
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A name commonly used to describe camels, denoting their ability to carry cargo across the deserts:
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Nubia's military strength prevented conquests of what people from moving south into North Africa?
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Followers of what religion compose the first written history of Africa?
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East African towns traded with merchants from what far eastern country on the other side of the Indian Ocean from them?
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What rivers borders Zimbabwe, making it an ideal location despite being far from the coast?
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A key port city of East Africa through which Zimbabwe's gold was transported north; it was known as one of the most beautiful cities in the world and included beautiful buildings made of coral:
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Common trade language on the eastern coast of Africa:
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Mali king (mansa) who brought much gold to Mecca:
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What city-state of eastern Africa founded a large and prosperous empire, thriving on trade of gold, slaves, and ivory with other African tribes and with India and China; built the famous Great Enclosure; has a name that means great house of stone?
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Speakers of the Bantu language lived along the coast of what body of water? They conducted trade with Arab merchants, thus forming the blended language of Swahili.
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Leading city of the African kingdom of Mali; located near the Niger River; home of Mansa Musa who built a great Islamic mosque and who encouraged the building of schools and libraries there:
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African empires built advanced cities around the same time as what period of history in Europe?
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Africans grew yams in what geographical region?
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What religion did the rulers of Ghana eventually adopt by the eleventh century?
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What material did Africans forge into tools and use as a form of money?
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Another name Europeans had for the Ivory Coast due to the abundance of a valuable natural resource:
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The three early empires of West Africa in chronological order:
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What was the name of the famous stone structure built in Zimbabwe?
