| A | B |
|---|
| death road | trade route connecting Wetern Africa to the coast of the Mediterranean Sea |
| National Honor of the Trousers | reward given to heroic soldiers in Mali |
| Queen Nzinga | promised to free all slaves in her kingdom |
| Ghana | grew wealthy from the salt and gold trade |
| Songhai | the largest empire in Western Africa in the 1500s |
| African Diaspora | the spread of African culture around the world by enslaved Africans |
| Nile | Africa's longest river |
| Bantu | fishing groups that migrated throughout Africa around 3000 B.C. |
| Axum | a city-state in Ethiopia |
| Mansa Musa | journeyed to Makkah in 1324 |
| What is a plateau? | an area of high flat land |
| What animal did the Romans introduce in North Africa? | camels |
| Sundiata Keita was a | great warrior king who seized Ghana |
| What factor caused the emergence of artisans in the rain forest kingdoms? | food surpluses |
| When the king died, who inherited the kingdom of Ghana? | the son of the king's sister |
| The Swahili culture was | influenced in part by Islam |
| Traditional African religions | believed in a single supreme god |
| How were children educated in medieval West Africa? | oral histories and proverbs |
| What major crop did the Portuguese produce using slaves from Africa? | sugarcane |
| Songs sung by enslaved Africans | connected them to their homeland |
| Which city was located in the Swahili settlement? | Mombasa |
| Through which body of water did trade routes of the East African states NOT pass? | Mediterranean Sea |
| Along which body of water were Swahili settlements located? | Indian Ocean |
| Which city was a terminal point on a trade route? | Cairo |
