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Lesson 1 The Rise of African Civilizations
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Where did the first humans appear according to scientists?
Scientists believe that the first humans appeared in eastern and southern Africa between ___________________________
The first humans lived as ___________________
What did the early humans (first humans) do to hunt and gather food?
How many long ago did the first humans began to settle in villages?
What did the first humans learn to do?
What became more widespread and organized around 3000 B.C.E?
What is the name of Africa's first civilizations?
What did the people of Africa find in the geography of the continent?
What is the world's largest continent after Asia?
Most of Africa lies in the ________________
Africa is made of ______________________
What stretches along the Equator?
What slices through Africa?
How much does rain forests take up of Africa's land area?
What makes up of 10% of Africa's land area?
What does rain forests receive all year long?
What can make farming difficult?
What did farmers do to grow root crops, such as yams?
What makes up the second zone of Africa?
What the second zone of Africa stretches north and south of the rainforest?
Vast grasslands stretch _______________________ of the rain forest
What area can be described as tropical grasslands dotted with small trees and shrubs?
What makes up about 40% of Africa's land area?
What do savannas have?
What do savannas receive enough of for farming and herding?
What type of grains do farmers grow?
What do herders raise?
What do the savannas connect with the third zone in northern Africa?
Plants that grow in the Sahel provide barely enough food for _________________________
The people of Sahel were traditionally _______________________
What is the fourth zone of Africa?
What is found south and north of the grasslands?
Deserts are found _____________________ of the grasslands
About 40 percent of the land in Africa is ______________
What is the world's largest desert?
What stretches across much of North Africa?
What did the desert limit for years?
What did people have to do to avoid vast seas of sand?
What makes up the fifth zone of Africa and has small areas of mild climate?
Where can the Mediterranean be found?
What produces an abundant amount of food in the Mediterranean regions?
What can the food surplus in the Mediterranean regions support?
Most of Africa is covered by a ___________________________
What is a plateau?
What crosses the plateau in East Africa?
What created deep cuts in the surface of the plateau millions of years ago?
What has had a strong influence on life in Africa's geographic zones?
What activity created the Great Rift Valley?
What have scientists find in the Great Rift Valley in recent years?
Where have scientists found some of the earliest human fossils?
Where are many of large river systems found?
Where did Egypt and Kush prosper along?
Which early African civilizations prospered along the Nile River in North Africa?
The Niger River is a similarly important river (to the Nile River) in ___________________
The Niger River in West Africa, or the Sudan region was known in ________________
What did the Niger River promote in West Africa?
What type of climate zones did the Niger River support?
What else did the Niger River support throughout West Africa?
What did trade and farming in the river valley enable for villages and towns throughout the Sudan region?
What made villages and towns grow throughout the Sudan region?
What did the people south of the Sahara learn to make?
Where did the skill of making iron spread to?
What skill that was spread from East and Central Africa to West Africa?
What location emerged as the largest trading center in West Africa by 250 B.C.E.?
What did artisans create?
What did merchants trade along with gold jewelry, copper goods, iron tools, and pottery?
What did Djenne-jeno become within western Africa?
Djenne-jeno was a _________________________
Where did Djenne-jeno send West African gold to?
What did Djenne-jeno send to Europe, the Middle East, and India?
What isolated North Africa from the rest of Africa for thousands of years?
Who found ways to cross the Sahara to the Sudan region that is now known as West Africa?
Who called West Africa the Sudan region?
What soon opened when the Berber people of North Africa found ways to cross the Sahara?
What did the Berbers carry across the Sahara on donkeys and horses?
Who carried goods across the Sahara on donkeys and horses?
Where did the Berbers carry goods across for hundreds of years?
What did the Berbers carry goods across the Sahara on?
What animals didn't often survive the desert heat?
What did the Romans introduce in 200 C.E.?
Who introduced central Asian camels in 200 C.E.?
What changed trade in Africa?
What animals' humps stored fat for food and traveled for many days without water?
What did the Berbers quickly adopt as a source of food and as way of travel?
Who quickly adopted camels as a souce of food and as a way to travel?
What did Berber traders form to cross the Sahara?
Western African merchants send gold mined in their region to ______________________
Who sent gold mined from their region to towns bordering the Sahara?
Who carried the gold northward after West African merchants sent gold to towns bordering the Sahara?
Some of African gold reached ___________________
Who valued gold in Europe and Asia?
What did caravans from West Africa carry?
What else did caravans from West Africa carry other than items?
Where did West African caravan merchants send captives?
What were captives of West African caravan forced to be?
What made West Africa a central part of the Afroeurasian trade networks from 400 B.C.E. to 1400 C.E.?
Caravans also headed from ________________________
What did caravans from North Africa to West Africa transport?
What did caravans do once in West Africa?
Who brought Islam to West Africa during the 700s C.E.?
What was brought to West Africa during the 700s C.E.?
Berber and Arab traders established ties with _____________________
What happened to West African merchants the Berber and Arab traders established ties with?
What brought prosperity to West Africa?
What happened when trade spurred population growth?
What eventually happened when powerful city-states emerged in the region?
What were larger and wealthier than most European kingdoms from the 500s C.E. to the 1300s C.E.?
Many of the areas of Africa remained ______________
What percent of Africa's population represent of the world's total population?
What was the first great trading empire in West Africa?
Ghana rose to power during the 400s C.E. and was located in _______________
What is the area of the Sahel mostly made of?
Where did the Sahel stretch across?
What helped the farmers of Ghana able to produce enough food?
Where was Ghana located?
What was the result of Ghana being located between the Sahara salt mines and gold mines near the West African coast rain forests?
Where did trade routes from Ghana extend into?
Ghana also linked to kingdoms in the __________________________
Some routes of Ghana reached all the way to _______________________________
Ghana's military power allowed them to control _______________________________
Kings of Ghana used their military to ________________________
The opening of trades routes allowed the people of North Africa and West Africa to exchange products such as _______________
Ghana controlling trade enabled Ghana kings to ______________________________
Wealthy Ghana kings could also afford to ____________________________________
What was an advantage Ghana's army that allowed Ghana to multiply the size of their army?
Who is Abdullah Abu-Ubayd al-Bakri?
What guaranteed profits for merchants when they were taxed?
What also grew along with the power of the government of Ghana?
Who did the trans-Saharan trade remain important for?
Why was trans-Saharan trade remain important for Berber traders?
What did Muslim merchants from North Africa bring to Ghana?
What was salt used for?
Why was salt important in West Africa?
What happened to Ghana in the 800s C.E and 900s C..E.?
How did Ghana reach the heigh of its power?
What happened to Ghana's trade?
What led to the fall of Ghana?
What happened as Ghana weakened?
Who conquered Ghana in the 1200s?
How did Mali build its wealth and power similarly to the Ghana?
Most of the Mali people were farmers who grew grains such as _____________________
The farmers of Mali lived in _______________
What did Mali local rulers who lived in villages with farmers serve as?
Each Mali ruler sent tax revenue from the village to ____________________
Who gives credit to a great king for Mali's rise?
Who do West African griots credit for Mali's rise?
Who is the Lion Prince?
What did Sundiata do during his ruler from 1230 to 1255?
Sundiata conquered territory from the ____________________________________________________
What did Sundiata's conquests put Mali in control of?
What did the Empire of Mali grew wealthy and powerful from?
What did the trans-Saharan trade make the Empire of Mali?
The Mali empire continued expand its influence into the 1300s because ______________________________
Cultural exchanges took place as ______________________________________________________
What influenced Mali's society?
Mali doubled in size under the rule of _______________________
Which Mali king ruled from 1312 to 1337?
What did Mansa Musa do as a devoted Muslim?
Who did Mansa Musa use his empire's wealth to support?
What did Muslim artisans and scholars who were supported by Mansa Musa build?
Who was the last powerful ruler of Mali?
What divided Mali by 1359?
Mali weakened after the death of ________________
What was the name of one of the states that eventually broke away from Mali's control?
Who became the ruler of Songhai in 1464?
Which Songhai ruler seized control of Timbuktu?
What did Sunni Ali used Songhai's location along the Niger River for?
By 1942, Songhai was _____________________________
Why did Songhai fall in 1600?
Which kingdom ruled the savannas?
West African empires controlled trade for more than _______________
What controlled trade for more than 1000 years?
What also had its own kingdoms near the Equator?
Where did Benin rise?
Where did Benin form?
Where did the powerful East African kingdom of Kush thrive for hundreds of years?
Kush is an _____________________________
What is the neighbors of Kush?
Where is Axum located?
Axum was an important stop on the trade route linking _____________________________
What did the Axum export?
What did Axum import?
What did traders from Africa's key ports along the Indian Ocean begin to trade with by the 1300s?
Where were traders from Africa's key ports located?
What did traders from Africa's key ports along the Indian Ocean begin to do by the 1300s?
What did coastal traders trade for minerals, ivory and coconut oil?
Where did an important trading state called Zimbabwe rise?
Where did Zimbabwe extend in the 1400s?